| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Improper Duchess' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; programme inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates 1931; includes magazine extract 'Play of the Moment' with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story; printed flyers [1931]; programme extract with cast list for tour venue 1932; also includes press cutting reporting the withdrawal (for revision) of the New York production of 'The Improper Duchess'
Performed at The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenvue, London, 22 Jan 1931, closing performance (346th) 21 Nov 1931; presented by Maurice Browne; produced and settings by James Fagan; The Empire Theatre, Southampton, 12 Jan 1931
On tour: 1931: The Pleasure Gardens, Folkestone; The Wimbledon Theatre; 1932: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton; The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; The Golders Green Hippodrome; The County Theatre, Bedford
Casts: Frank Cochrane, Granville Ferrier, Claude Whinney, Eugene Leahy, George Ide, Ruth Peterson, Frank Cellier, Jame Soloman, Andrea Melandrino, Harry Clifford, Yvonne Arnaud, Annie Esmond, Julie Suedo, Hartley Power, John Laurie, Winifred Oughton, Zena Howard, Marguerite Noelle, Geoffrey Goodhart, Hilary Fisher White, Suzanne Hudson, Peggie Rowlands, Hebe Bliss, Harold Colonna, Enrico Rosselli, R. Renaud Lockwood, Arthur Graham, Leslie Crowther, James Parish, John Walker, Donald Donovan, Mary Byron, Leslie Kyle, Frank Fellowes, Derek Cotter, A. Tyrer, Cecil Brooking, Arthur Grabeth Hill, Marie Holmes, Duncan Yarrow, Harold Thorley, Maxwell Low, John Moore, Torin Thatcher, Sam Livesey, Gerald Vane, Weston Fields, Petrina Fry |