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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/588
Title'At the Silver Swan' by Guy Bolton and Clifford Grey
Extent1 file
Date1936
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of lyrics and sketches by Alan Melville, Michael Flanders and Paul Dehn; music by Kenneth Leslie Smith, Donald Swann, Charles Zwar and James Bernard with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list, story of the play and photographs of some cast members [1936]; printed flyers [1936]; includes magazine extract photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the musical

Performed at The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 19 Feb 1936, closing performance, 4 Apr 1936; presented by Charlton Morton; produced by John Harwood; dances by Max Rivers; scenery, dresses and decor by Dors Zinkeisen; orchestra under the direction of Percival Mackey; music by Edward Samuels; additional numbers by Percival Mackey; The Kings Theatre, Glasgow, 4 Feb 1936

Casts: John Barker, Richard Tope, Lorna Cottrell, Mollie Hartley Milburn, Cecil G. Calvert, Billy Holland, Sebastion Smith, Magda Kun, Steve Geray, Constance Edwards, Bruce Carfax, Marta Labarr, Jack Barty, Alice Delysia, Yvonne le Dain, John Dudley, Herbert Ward, Charles Tully, Lucienne, Ashour, Johnny Nit, Joan Cottrell, Mollie Johnstone, Mabel Hubbard, Rosie Youngman

[Un-related] press cutting from an American newspaper: review and cast list for: 'The Silver Swan' by William A. Brady and Alonzo Price; billed as "a Viennese musical romance"

Performed at: The Martin Beck Theatre, New York; music by H. Maurice Jacquet; lyrics by William A. Brady; staged by Alonzo Price; dances and ensembles arranged by Leroy J. Prinz; produced by Herman Gantvoort

Cast: Robert Roltner, David D. Morris, Alexander Leftwich Jnr, Walter Monroe, Harry Miller, Laine Blaire, Alice MacKenzie, Robert G. Pitkin, Ninon Bunyea, Edward Nell jnr, Paul Joyce, Lina Abarbanell, Vivian Hart, Florenz Ames, Lucille Constant, Jill Northrop, William Dillon
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