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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1379
Title'Chelsea Follies' by Archibold de Bear and Reginald Arkell.
Extent1 file
Date1930-1931
Description Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Chelsea Follies' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the revue; printed postcard flyers [1930-1931]

Performed at The Victoria Palace Theatre, London 17 Dec 1930 (second edition 30 Mar 1931), closing performance, 27 Jun 1931; presented by Archibald de Bear and R. H. Gillespie; musical numbers arranged and produced by J. W. Jackson; settings by Clifford Pember; lyrics by A. P. Herbert, Frank Eyton, Reginald Berkeley, Montague Lyon, Anona Winn and Harold Simpson; music by Wolseley Charles, Philip Crooke, Alastair Thomson, Alfred Reynolds and Billy Mayerl; The Empire Theatre, Southampton, 8 Dec 1930
On tour: 1931: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; The Golders Green Hippodrome

Cast: Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox, Hall Swain and his Band, Naughton Wayne, Pearl Green, Harold Scott, Hazel Wynne, Jack Train, Sylvia Reynolds, Dolly King, Lillebel Ibsen, Ella Atherton, J. W. Jackson's 8 Lancashire Lads, D. Hay Petrie, Martin Iredale, Eddie Gray, Jotty Stunt, Jack Lynn, Jane Burrows, Olive Melville, Ella Fairbanks, Maisie Darrell, Anona Winn, Peggy Cartwright, Brian Buchel, Toni Grecco, Averil Haley, Kathleen Greenwood, Thomas Warner, Charles Hickman, Rita Tate, Renee Roy, Grodon Forrester, Balerie Roy, Joan McKay, Margaret Daniels,
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