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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1290
Title'Symphony in Two Flats' by Ivor Novello
Extent1 file
Date1929-1931
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Symphony in Two Flats' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates; includes printed flyers [1929]; photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 9 Dec 1929; presented by Ivor Novello by arrangement with Mary Moore; orchestral director Kendal Grimston; directed by Raymond Massey; decor by Frank Leveson; scenery by G. Hamilton Gay
Transferred to: The New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London, 14 Oct 1929, closing performance, 8 Dec 1929; The Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, 23 Sep 1929; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham, 8 Oct 1929
On tour: 1930: The Grand Opera House, Harrogate; The Streatham Hill Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Torquay; The Royal Theatre, Plymouth; 1931: The Royal Theatre, Leamington Spa
America: The Shubert Theatre, New York, 16 Sep 1930; directed by Raymond Massey

Casts: Anthony Hankey, Frederic Oxley, Ivor Novello, Benita Hume, Lilian Braithwaite, Viola Tree, Ann Trevor, Minnie Raynor, George Ralph, Stephan Wentworth, Netta Westcott, Maidie Andrews, Gwendolyn Floyd, Ben Webster, Ivan Samson, Una Venning, Ethel Baird, Moya Mackintosh, Ian Braested, Lionel Westlake, W. T. Riley, Frederick Worsley, Barbara Spicer, Phyllis Wilson, Eileen Adams, Hilda Carmichael, Joan Culver
Access StatusOpen

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