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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1599
Title'By Candle Light' by Harry Graham
Extent1 file
Date1928-1930
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'By Candle Light', adapted from the German of Siegfried Geyer; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and cast changes; includes printed flyers [1929]

Performed at The Prince of Wales' Theatre, London, 18 Sep 1928; presented by arrangement with Andre Charlot; produced by Leslie Faber and Ronald Squire; scenery by Walter Thornton Smith
Transferred to: The Criterion Theatre, London, 6 May 1929, closing performance (477th) 9 Nov 1929; The King's Theatre, Southsea, 10 Sep 1928
On tour: 1929: The New Cambridge Theatre; The King's Theatre, Hammersmith; The Prince's Theatre, Manchester; The Grand Opera House, Belfast; 1930: The King's Theatre, Glasgow
America: The Empire Theatre, New York, 30 Sep 1929; adapted by P. G. Wodehouse; presented and directed by Gilbert Miller

Casts: Leslie Faber, Ronald Squire, Frederick Lloyd, George Desmond, H. Carlaw Grand, Moya Mannering, Cecily Byrne, Yvonne Arnaud, Grizelda Hervey, Langhorne Burton, George Curzon, Kathleen O'Regan, Eric Algar, Richard Hatteras, C. Bell, Georgette Le Grand, Flora McDowell, William Matthews, Edward Steel, Betty Burnett, Lawrence Grossmith, Kathleen Boutall, Herbert Barrs, Mary Macdonald, Edgar Dickenson, Elizabeth Vaughan, Waldo Sturrey, Vera Pofiakoff, Donald Davies, Daphne Porter, Godfrey Kerson, Martin Lawrence, Dino Gatty, Patricia Danson, Yvonne le Dain, Barbara Allen, Gertrude Lawrence, Reginald Owen, Leslie Howard, Betty Schuster, Robert English, Rita Vale, Duncan McRae, Jack Carlton
Access StatusOpen

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