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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/529
Title'The Cradle Song' by Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra
Extent1 file
Date1926-1944
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Cradle Song', translated by John Garrett Underhill and for accompanying production of 'The Lover' by Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra in 1926 production only; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast lists and dates; includes printed flyer [1944]

Performed at The Fortune Theatre, London, 2 Nov 1926, closing performance, 18 Dec 1926 (as double bill with 'The Lover' by Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra); presented by Anmer Hall; both plays produced by A. E. Filmer; settings and costumes by Molly McArthur
Transferred to: The Little Theatre, London, 27 Dec 1926, closing performance, 5 Feb 1927
Revived at: The Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, London, 2 Sep 1931, closing performance, 19 Sep 1931; produced by A. E. Filmer; The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 27 Jan 1944; presented by H. M. Tennent Ltd; directed by John Gielgud; costumes by Jeannetta Cochrane; setting by Gregorio Prieto; lighting by Hamish Wilson; The New Theatre, Oxford, 17 Jan 1944
America: The Civic Repertory Theatre, New York, 24 Jan 1931; produced by Eva le Gallienne; decor G. E. Calthrop

Casts: Joan Hill, Ivy des Veoux, Barbara Everest, Gillian Scaife, Mary Lincoln, Isabel Pargiter, Esme Hubbard, Di Forbes, David Horne, Peggy Rae, George Wansborough, Natalie Moya, Christopher Oldham, Phyllis Relph, Michael Sherbrooke, Joan Dilla, Hubert Harben, Mary Lincoln, Barbara Everest, Gabrielle Casartelli, Marie Ault, Christine Silver, Beatrice Wilson, Zillah Malcolm, Wendy Hiller, Lilly Kann, Muriel Aked, Ann Wilton, Yvonne Mitchell, Chloe Gibson, Frances Ruttledge, Julian Dallas, Ann Heffernan, Helen Burns, Yvonne Rorie, Frederick Leister, Katherine Blake, Alice Bowes, Barbara Douglas, Daphne Newton, Eirene Owen, Eva le Gallienne, Beatrice Terry, Josephine Hutchinson, Hardie Allbright, Leona Roberts, Beatrice de Neergaard, Egon Brecher, Sayre Crawley
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