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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3364
Title'Tony Draws a Horse!' by Lesley Storm
Extent1 file
Date1939-1945
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Tony Draws a Horse!' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; programme inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates 1939; includes printed flyer [1939]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Criterion Theatre, London, 26 Jan 1939; presented by Howard Wyndham and Bronson Albery and Alban Limpus; produced by Richard Bird; decor and scenery by David Homan
Transferred to: The Strand Theatre, London 13 Mar 1939; then to: The Comedy Theatre, London, 5 Jun 1939, closing performance, 2 Sep 1939; then to: The Comedy Theatre, London, 20 Sep 1939, closing performance, 6 Jan 1940
On tour: 1938: The Pavilion, Bournemouth; 1940: The Wimbledon Theatre; 1945: The Grand Opera House, Harrogate
America: The Playhouse Theatre, New York, Dec 1939 (as Billy Draws a Horse)

Casts: Margaret Emden, Nigel Patrick, Diana Churchill, Cyril Raymond, Kay Astor, James Harcourt, Janet Johnson, Lilian Braithwaite, John Turnbull, Hayley Bell, Antony Holles, Ben Wright, Norman Atkyns, Beryl Measor, Jimmy Godden, Henry Hewitt, Andre Morrell, Janet Johnson, Hilda Antony, Molly May, Marjory Morris, Stewart Granger, Peter Copley, Moira Lynd, Eric Weatherell, Iris Hoey, John Lothar, Elise Parsons, Hilton Layland, Robert Gilbert, Thelma Rea, Frank Barrell, Robert Robinson, Lorna Hobling, Elizabeth Howarth, John Whiting, Felicity Gower, Neville Mapp, Eliner Waters, Arnold Ridley, Joan Hopkins, Marjorie Bennett, John Probert, Barry Lipton, James Mills, Guy Standeven, Colin Collins, Jacqueline Maude, Arthur Margetson, Grace George
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