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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/942
Title'The Distaff Side' by John van Druten
Extent1 file
Date1933-1934
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Distaff Side' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; printed flyer [1933]

Performed at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 5 Sep 1933, closing performance, 2 Dec 1933; presented by Gilbert Miller; directed by Auriol Lee; decor by Ronald Trew; orchestra directed by Philip Cathie; The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 14 Aug 1933
On tour: 1933: The Alhambra, [Glasgow]
America: The Booth Theatre, New York, 25 Sep 1934 (as 'The Late Firelight'); directed by Auriol Lee

Casts: Sybil Thorndike, Haidee Wright, Martita Hunt, Viola Keats, Dorothy Holmes Gore, Clifford Evans, Robert Horton, Edgar Norfolk, Alexander Archdale, Margaret Carter, Dora Barton, Maud Buchanan, Betty Freeman, Estelle Winwood
Access StatusOpen

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