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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2114
Title'The Cat and the Fiddle' by Otto Harbach
Extent1 file
Date1931-1933
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Cat and the Fiddle' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates [1932]; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical; magazine extract colour illustrations of costume designs; printed flyers [1932]

Performed at The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 4 Mar 1932, closing performance (226th) 17 Sep 1932; presented by Charles Cochran; staged by William Mollison; settings by Henry Dreyfuss; costumes by The Marchioness of Queensbury (Cathleen Mann); dances arranged by Budd Bradley; orchestra under direction of Hyam Greenbaum
On tour: 1932: The Streatham Hill Theatre; 1933: The Lyceum, Edinburgh; The Royal, Newcastle; The Kings, Glasgow; The Opera House, Manchester; The Grand Theatre, Leeds; The Royal Court, Liverpool; The Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham
America: The Globe Theatre, New York, 15 Oct 1931; setting by Henry Dreyfuss

Casts: Rudolf Ruffax, Marthe Preval, Cyril Gaye, Fred Conyngham, Peggy Wood, Henri Leoni, Francis Lederer, Gina Malo, Alice Delysia, Muriel Barron, Morton Selton, Martin Walker, Austin Trevor, Babs Valerie, Eric Marshall, Eve Manning, June Seymour, Phyllis Gillespie, Honor Blair, Nadejda, Olga Lindo, Bruce Carfax, Charles Barrett, P. Kynaston Reeves, Cyril Gaye, Pierre Frederick, Claude Horton, George Chatterley, Herbert Walker, Henry de Bray, Bardy Russell, Georges Metaxa, Bettina Hall, Fred Walton, Odette Myrtill, Jose Ruben, Lawrence Grossmith, Flora le Breton, Eddie Foy, Doris Carson, Arthur Treacher
Access StatusOpen

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