| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Garden of Eden', adapted from the original of R. Bernauer and R. Oesterreicher; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play
Performed at The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 30 May 1927, closing performance, 17 Dec 1927; presented by Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller, produced by William Mollison; scenery by F. L. Lyndhurst and J. W. Harris; orchestra under direction of David Bor; The Lyceum, Edinburgh, 23 May 1927
On tour: 1928: The Richmond Theatre; The New Theatre, Cardiff; The Royal Theatre, Aldershot; The Grand Theatre, Croydon, 1929: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton; The Perth Theatre
America: The Selwyn Theatre, New York, 27 Sep 1927 (23 performances); directed by Arch Selwyn; staged by Edwin Knopf
Casts: Isabel Wilford, Marcelle Roehe, Diana Caird, Arthur Holman, Alice O'Day, George Bellamy, Tallulah Bankhead, Edward Irwin, Barbara Gott, Eric Maturin, Herman de Lange, Ivo Dawson, Robert English, Hugh Williams, Murri Moncrieff, Robert Mawdesley, Dino Galvani, Rex Caldwell, Annie Esmond, Frederick Volpe, Arthur Ross, Norman Forbes, Roy Emerton, Gladys Falck, Marcelle Roche, Eva Moore, Miriam Hopkins, Alison Skipworth, A. G. Andrews, Ivan Simpson, Russ Whytal, Zerlina Harington, Georgette Thierry, Fred Knight, George Cooke, Frank Gerald, Felix Seel, Terence Duff, Clude Winney, Frederick Bates, Mervyn Dene, Mona Monckton Hoffe, Beryl Carnegie, Agnes Marey, Violet Foster, Muriel Delsey, Ruby Leyton, Ernest Hayward, Sandford Garland, Hector Woodhouse, Lewis Clifford, Noel Howlett, Barry Ferguson, Hebe Bliss, H. Bradford, James Willard, Muriel Smith, Jack Hinton, Olive Hinton, Una Maclean, Betty Malden
also contains press cuttings relating to: 'Bonne Soupe' by Felicien Marceau; translated by Kitty Black
Performed at: The Comedy Theatre, London, 23 Oct [?]; presented by Donald Albery; directed by Eleanor Fazan; decor by Disley Jones
On tour: The New Theatre, Oxford; The Royal Theatre, Brighton
Cast: Coral Browne, Erica Rogers, Peter Illing, Nigel Davenport, Peter Bowles, Vernon Smythe, Katherine Harding, Rosalie Westwater, John Church, James Cousins, Judy South, Michael Johnson, Bill Corlett, Mahvash Bellamy, Richard Coe, Michael Darlow, Tim Buckland, Sandra Alfred, Carolyn Parrish, John Redmond, Leonard Kingston, Phillip Madoc, Joan Heath, Derek Toyne, Anthony Carrick, Peter Sallis |