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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2096
Title'Carnival' by H. G. M. Hardinge and Matheson Lang
Extent1 file
Date1919-1925
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Carnival', adapted from the Italian play 'Sirocco' by Pordes Milo; with photographs and illustrations of members of the casts and cast lists; typescript inside front cover and at back give cast lists and dates; magazine extract from 'Play of the Month' has photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story; press cutting gives cast list for provincial theatre, 1925

Performed at The New Theatre, London 5 Feb 1920, closing performance, 17 Jul 1920; presented and produced by Matheson Lang; The New Theatre 9 Jun 1923, closing performance, 4 Aug 1923; The New Theatre, 7 Feb 1925, closing performance, 7 Mar 1925
Originally at: The Royal Theatre, Birmingham, 5 May 1919
On tour: 1926: The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; The Alhambra Theatre [Glasgow?]
America: The 44th Street Theatre, New York, 24 Dec 1919

Casts: Horton Cooper, Anthony Holles, Ivy Pike, Dorothy Fane, Edward Y. Rae, Donald R. Young, Dennis Neilson Terry, Matheson Lang, Margaret Damer, [Jane] Rouira, Hilda Bayley, H. R. Hignett, Winifred Izard, Betty Belloc, George Skillan, Alfred Brandon, Walter Menpes, Harold Bradley, George Morgan, Freddie Piesley, Ernest Bodkin, Walter Plinge, Granville Darling, Brian Buchel, Elsie Judge, Cecil G. Calvert, Donald R. Young, Nona Wynne, Mary Glynne, Mary May, George Walker, A. W. Tyren, Reginald Gosse, Alec S. Clunes, Norma Varden, Gerald Anderson, Alexander Denby, Leonard Shepherd, Donald Wolfitt, Arthur Bush, Henry Hewitt, Ethel Carrington, Owen Cassidy, Horatio Gorringe, Rupert Lister, Marian Carey, H. B. Green, Harald Melvill, Roza Alma, Clive Gay, D. S. Cotter, Kathleen Russell, Frank Davidson, Elspeth Franks, Charles Delmar, J. Manners, Percy Watts, W. H. Pointon, Rene Davies, Cecile Barclay, Horton Cooper, Ivy Pike, Helen Colville, Isabel Beresford, Charles R. Stone, Dennis Trent, Saunders Bowen, May Ward, Vera Hurst, Shayle Gardner
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