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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3394
Title'The Only Way' by Freeman Wills and Frederick Langridge
Extent1 file
Date1930
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Only Way', adapted from 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover and at back give cast lists and dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; magazine extract with photographs from the film version of the play

Performed at The Savoy Theatre, London, 7 Nov 1930, closing performance, 22 Nov 1930; presented [and produced] by John Martin Harvey
On tour: 1929: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith
Originally at: The Lyceum Theatre, 16 Feb 1899 (167 performances); The Apollo Theatre, London, 25 May 1901; The Adelphi Theatre, London, 24 Jun 1907; The Lyceum Theatre, London, 24 May 1911; The Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 30 Jun 1913; The New Theatre, London, 21 Jun 1915;
The Covent Garden Theatre, London 22 Jan 1920; The Lyceum Theatre, London, 24 Oct 1921

Casts: John Martin Harvey, James Dale, Eric Howard, Leonard S. Daniels, J. Fisher White, George Thirwell, John Garside, John S. Burton, David Bain, Margaret Marsh, Mary Rorke, N. de Silva, Garry Marsh, Gilbert Christie, William Farren, Paul Darry, William Stack, Arthur Chesney, Alfred Ibbarson, George Cooke, Walter Pearce, A. Alington, Cecil de Lee, E. Skinner, E. T. Shee, A. [B]ibby, Victor Watts Weston, H. McHugh, Marie Hemingway, Marie Linden, Bessie Elder, Eugene Wellesley, Betty Belloc, Horace Wentworth, John Lewis, John S. Burton, Henry Hallat, William Burchill

Cast for film version: Ben Webster, John Martin Harvey, Madge Stuart, Fisher White, Betty Faire
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