| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Betty in Mayfair', adapted from 'The Lilies of the Field' by J. Hastings Turner; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and dates; includes postcard flyer [1925]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical; press photographs of the wedding of leading cast member Evelyn Laye to actor Sonnie Hale; also includes programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre 1926
Performed at The Adelphi Theatre, London, 11 Nov 1925; produced by Fred Blackman; lyrics by Harry Graham; music by H. Fraser Simson
Transferred to: The Shaftesbury Theatre, London 3 Apr 1926, closing performance, 24 Apr 1926; The Empire, Sunderland, 26 Oct 1925
On tour: 1926: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Palace Theatre, Manchester; The Wimbledon Theatre; 1927: The Royal Theatre, Plymouth; The Opera House, Middlesborough
Cast: Cecil Brooking, Leslie Faber, Winifred Evans, Lena Halliday, Lilian Mason, Evelyn Laye, Mary Leigh, Arthur Margetson, Jack Hobbs, Cecil Fowler, Jean Stirling, Mabel Munro, Kathleen Burgis, Margery Binner, Ruth Winship, Zane Baynes, Alec Fraser, Wilfred Temple, Dennis Brockbank, Joan Travers, Josie Melville, Hubert Ennor, Kenneth Seymour, Mary Leigh, Beatrice Rowe, Eileen Francis, Frank Watson, Vernon T. West, Lilian Mason, Beryl Stackard, Molly Gilroy, Betty Eley, Cecile Maule Cole, Arthur Warren, Noreen Davis, Stanley Kirk, Nora Kingsley |