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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1159
Title'The House that Jack Built' by Ronald Jeans and Douglas Furber
Extent1 file
Date1929-1931
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The House that Jack Built' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list; typescript inside front cover gives dates and changes in cast members; includes printed flyers [1929], [1930]; photographs of cast members in scenes from the revue

Performed at The Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, 5 Nov 1929; presented by Jack Hulbert and Paul Murray; produced by Jack Hulbert; costumes by Guy de Gerald; scenery by Lyndhurst; music by Ivor Novello; lyrics by Donovan Parsons; additional numbers of Vivian Ellis and Arthur Schwartz
Transferred to: The Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, 14 Apr 1930, closing performance (332nd) 21 Jun 1930; The Empire Theatre, Liverpool, 3 Sep 1929
On tour: 1930: The Empire Theatre, Stratford E.

Casts: Ciceley Courtneidge, Vera Sherburn, Irene Russell, Bobbie Comber, Ivor McLaren, Laurence Green, Ronald Massey, Jack Hulbert, Rosaline Corneille, Joan McLaren, Nancy Burne, Harry Budd, Helen Burnell, Robert Naylor, Philip Stuart, Charles Granville, Victor Tennant, Elinor Darville, Stuart Harding, Norah Blaney, Gwen Farrer, Peter Du Calion, Elinor Darville, Regina West, Phyllis Burke, Crystal Heather, Denis Brocklebank, Bert Platt
Access StatusOpen

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