Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/501
Title'The Co-Optimists' by Davy Burnaby and Archibald de Bear
Extent1 file
Date1926-1927
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Co-Optimists' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, change in cast member and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the show; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre

Performed at His Majestys Theatre, London, 25 Aug 1926 (12th programme); 29 Nov 1926 (13th programme), closing performance, 12 Feb 1927; staged by Stanley Brightman; dances J. W. Jackson
On tour: 1926: The Golders Green Hippodrome; 1927: The Royal Theatre, Birmingham

Cast: Doris Bentley, Melville Gideon, Gilbert Childs, Marjorie Spiers, Sheila Rawle, Davy Burnaby, Mary Leigh, Stanley Holloway, Louis Rihll, Austin Melford, Wolseley Charles, Stanley Brightman
Access StatusOpen

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