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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/496
Title'The Convict' by Ethel Dickens and C. E. Openshaw
Extent1 file
Date1935
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Convict', a dramatisation of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, adapted by his grand-daughter Ethel Dickens and C. E. Opensha; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates

Performed at The Westminster Theatre, London, 4 Feb 1935, closing performance, 16 Feb 1935; presented and produced by John Martin Harvey; decor Ruth Keating and Tanya Moiseiwitsch
On tour: 1935: Revised and re-named 'The Scapegoat': The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith

Casts: John Martin Harvey, Dick Cornock, A. Huntley Gordon, Wilfred Walter, Leslie Beaufort, Mary Casson, Mary Mayfern, B. Marsh Dunn, Thea Holme, Jean Cadell, Hubert Gregg, John Garside, Robert Ginns, Bruce Imrie, Howell Davies, Terence Legrys, Fred Madell, Alois Maresh, Theordore Meade, William Nutton, Philip Hewland, Mary Gray, Cyril Dane, Neva Carr-Glynn, Arnold Rooke, Wilfred Gillard, Phylis Shand, Paul Barry
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