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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2578
Title'Virginia' by Herbert Clayton, Douglas Furber, R. P. Weston and Bert Lee
Extent1 file
Date1928-1930
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Virginia' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and typescript dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 24 Oct 1928, closing performance, 11 May 1929; presented by Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller; produced by William Mollison; dances and ensembles arranged by Ralph Reader; music by Jack Waller and J. A. Tunbridge; book and lyrics by Herbert Clayton, Douglas Furber, R. P. Weston and Bert Lee; The Empire Theatre, Cardiff, 24 Sep 1928
On tour: 1929: The Empire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; The Wimbledon Theatre; The Kings Theatre, Dundee; The New Theatre, Northampton; The Royal Theatre, Chatham; The Golders Green Hippodrome; 1930: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith

Casts: Robert Nainby, Ernest Graham, Lancelot Quinn, Edna Brough, George Gee, Gladys Falck, A. Bromley Davenport, Harold French, S. A. Locke, Marjorie Gordon, Emma Haig, John Kirby, Jimmie Fergusson, John Gordon, Anthony Brian, Ernest Trimingham, William Taylor, Cora La Redd, Walter Richardson, Phil Arnold, Madeline Rossiter, Peggy Bedells, Ursula Jeans, George Barrett, Frank Parr, Bertram Dench, H. Walton, Henry Lytton jnr, Betty French, Arthur Riscoe, Cora Goffin, Bernard Dudley, Jack Carr, Jimmy Hamilton, Arthur Williams, Harry Ray, Babette O'Deal, Carlito Ackroyd, Nancy Fraser, Lewis Earle, Helen Cooney, Mark Stone, Noel Leyland, Dorice Reade, Paul Relph, F. Atwill, Basil Crozier, Phyllis Karran, Josephine Bradley, A. Kightley, Robert Lacey, A. Waterson, A. Fredericks, Frank Dharty, Eva Ellis, Furness Williams, Jack Leonard, Rex Parker, Billy Spurling, Andr Gorday, Lewis Edgar, Ada Smart, R. Lacey MacDonald, Roy Galloway
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