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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/5248
Title'The Giaconda Smile' by Aldous Huxley
Extent1 file
Date1948-1949
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Giaconda Smile' with photographs and cartoon illustrations of cast members and scenes from the play and a cast list

Performed at The New Theatre, London, 3 June 1948; presented by Jack de Leon by arrangement with Bronson Albery; directed by Peter Glenville; decor by Paul Sheriff
Transferred to Wyndham's Theatre, London, Sep 1948, closing performance (the 297th) 19 Feb 1949
Opened at The Opera House, Leicester, 29 March 1948
Tour: including The Opera House, Cheltenham, 1949
America: The Lyceum, New York

Casts: Clive Brook, Pamela Brown, Marie Ney, Pamela White, Brenda Bruce, Noel Howlett, Gordon McLeod, Elizabeth Villars, Kenneth Law, Allen Montgomery, Valerie Taylor, Elizabeth Kentish, Alison Leggatt, Enid Hewitt, Ann Walford, Audrey Noble, Laurence Naismith, Ernest Borrow, Basil Rathbone, George Relph
Access StatusOpen

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