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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/739
Title'The Life Machine' by Sophie Treadwell
Extent1 file
Date1928-1932
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of the play with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and dates

Performed at The Arts Theatre Club, London, 15 Jul 1931 (6 performances); presented by the Players Theatre; produced by Henry Oscar
Transferred to: The Garrick Theatre, London, 3 Aug 1931, closing performance, 19 Dec 1931
On tour: 1932: The Grand, Croydon; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith
America: The Plymouth Theatre, New York, 7 Sep 1928 (as 'Machinal'); presented and directed by Arthur Hopkins; settings by Robert Edmond Jones

Casts: Holland Bennett, Don Gemmell, Dorita Curtis Hayward, Doris Gilmore, David Horne, Mary Grew, Winifred Evans, Drelincourt Odlum, Colin Keith Johnston, Lionel Dixon, John Roderick, Monica Brett, E. A. Walker, George Tempest, Patrick Barker, Cecil G. Calvert, W. Earle Grey, Robert Gilbert, Philip Stuart, Reginald Tate, Vincent Lawson, Zita Johann, George Stillwell, Jean Adair, Clark Gable, Millicent Green, James MacDonald, Maudie Dunham, Douglas Drew Lange, John Lesley, Veronica Butler, Edwin Bennett, Peter Laurens, Ada Bennett, Stanley Heather, J. C. Dodsworth, Hebe Bliss, George Dudley, Nigel Patrick, Jean Herbert, G. Edward Hall
Access StatusOpen

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