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OLD VIC 1914-1928
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1914-15 OLD VIC SEASON (first) director: Matheson Lang, Ben Greet etc.
Sybil Thorndike (debut: 30 Nov 1914 as Adriana), Nora Nicholson, Ben Greet, Andrew Leigh, Estelle Stead, Hutin Britton, Constance Robertson, Fisher White, William Stack, J.Leslie Frith, John Napper, A.Corney Grain
No programmes available

1914-15: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, HAMLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (dir:Matheson Lang/Hutin Britton); THE TEMPEST, KING RENE'S DAUGHTER and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, THE WINTER'S TALE, OTHELLO, MACBETH (dir:Ben Greet); TWELFTH NIGHT, AS YOU LIKE IT (dir:Andrew Leigh); THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (dir:Andrew Leigh/Estelle Stead); JULIUS CAESAR (dir:J.Fisher White); SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (dir:Lady Benson); THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (dir:Mrs Edward Compton)

1915-16 OLD VIC SEASON director: Ben Greet
Robert Atkins etc.
No programmes available

1916-17 OLD VIC SEASON director: Ben Greet
Russell Thorndike etc.

1916-17: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 23 1917, 2.30 (Royal Victoria Hall)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ellen Terry, Matheson Lang, Russell Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike, Lilian Braithwaite, Joyce Carey, Florence Saunders, Hutin Britton, Gertrude Elliott, Ben Webster, and many others. The performance was directed by Ben Greet. Details are given of the "Shakespearean and Classical Plays" produced by him at the theatre "during the last 3 seasons". Note that the theatre was not yet officially known as the ‘Old Vic', and is described as the "Royal Victoria Hall... The people's Opera, Play and Lecture House, Waterloo Road, S.E.; Lessee and Manager LILIAN BAYLIS"; and in 1917, Britain was still at war: "warning of a threatened air raid will be communicated by the Military Authorities to this Theatre." Full of fascinating information and packed with historic names.
[4pp; 8.25x10.5; excellent condition; see scan above (newsclipping not included); how many of these can be left?] £15

1916-17: Shakespeare Birthday Festival TWELFTH NIGHT - April 23 1917, 7.45 (Royal Victoria Hall)
Sybil Thorndike, Ben Greet, Terence O'Brien, Russell Thorndike, Florence Saunders, dir:B.Greet; with details of the "Shakespearean and Classical Plays" produced by Ben Greet at the theatre "during the last 3 seasons". Note that the theatre was not yet officially known as the ‘Old Vic', and is described as the "Royal Victoria Hall... The people's Opera, Play and Lecture House, Waterloo Road, S.E.; Lessee and Manager LILIAN BAYLIS"; and in 1917, Britain was still at war:"warning of a threatened air raid will be communicated by the Military Authorities to this Theatre." Full of fascinating information and packed with historic names.
[4pp; 8.25x10.5; excellent condition - see scan above; how many of these can be left?] £15

1917-18 OLD VIC SEASON director: Ben Greet
Russell Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike etc.
No programmes available

1918-19 OLD VIC SEASON director: G.R.Foss
Ernest Milton etc.
No programmes available

1919-20 OLD VIC SEASON director: Russell Thorndike etc.
Russell Thorndike, Charles Warburton, Genevieve Ward
No programmes available

1920-21 OLD VIC SEASON director: Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins, Ernest Milton, Rupert Harvey, Jane Bacon, Wilfrid Walter
No programmes available

1921-22 OLD VIC SEASON director: Robert Atkins
Russell Thorndike, Ernest Milton, Robert Atkins, Florence Buckton, Wilfrid Walter
No programmes available

1921-22: WAT TYLER - Halcott Glover (Old Vic) opened November 1921
Ernest Milton (John Ball), Wilfrid Walter (Jack Straw)


1922-23 OLD VIC SEASON director: Robert Atkins
Wilfrid Walter, Esther Whitehouse, Robert Atkins, Douglas Burbidge, Ernest Milton, John Laurie, Hilton Edwards, John Garside, D.Hay Petrie, Jane Bacon

1922-23: EVERYMAN (Old Vic)
Wilfrid Walter, John Laurie, Hilton Edwards, John Garside, D.Hay Petrie [4pp; 5x7.5; spine repaired] £2

1922-23: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Old Vic)
Wilfrid Walter, John Laurie, Douglas Burbidge, John Garside, Hilton Edwards, Jane Bacon, D.Hay Petrie, Edith Coates [4pp; 5x7.5; creased, adhesion traces on rear, else VG] £1

1922-23: HENRY VI PT.II & III (Old Vic)
Wilfrid Walter, John Laurie, D.Hay Petrie, John Garside, Douglas Burbidge, Robert Atkins, Hilton Edwards, Jane Bacon, Florence Buckton [4pp; 5x7.5] (£3) SOLD

1922-23: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY NIGHT - April 23 1923 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Arthur Bourchier, Ernest Milton, Athene Seyler, John Laurie, Wilfred Walter, Andrew Leigh, D.Hay Petrie, Florence Saunders, Hilton Edwards, John Garside, Beatrice Wilson, Hutin Britton, and many others; two songs conducted by the composer Roger Quilter. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest.
[4pp; 9x11.5; has been lightly folded in four] (£12) SOLD

1923-24 OLD VIC SEASON director: Robert Atkins
Wilfrid Walter, Florence Saunders, Ion Swinley, Robert Atkins, Jane Bacon, John Laurie, George Hayes, Hilton Edwards, Henry Cohen, Neil Curtis

1923-24: AS YOU LIKE IT (Old Vic)
Florence Saunders, Ion Swinley, Wilfrid Walter, John Laurie, George Hayes, Hilton Edwards, D.Hay Petrie, Jane Bacon [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1923-24: FAUST - Goethe tr.Graham/Rawson (Old Vic) opened 20 Feb 1924
Ion Swinley (Faust), George Hayes (Mephistopheles), Hay Petrie (Scholar), John Laurie (Michael), Wilfrid Walter (Raphael), Jane Bacon (Margaret), Ethel Harper (Martha) [4pp; 5x7.5] £3

1923-24: HAMLET short version (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, Wilfrid Walter, Florence Saunders, Jane Bacon, John Laurie, Henry Cohen, Neil Curtis, George Hayes, Hilton Edwards, D.Hay Petrie [4pp; 5x7.5] £3

1924 (Summer): TWELFTH NIGHT (New Oxford Theatre, London)
Florence Saunders, Ion Swinley, Robert Atkins, Jane Bacon, John Laurie, D.Hay Petrie [20pp; 5.5x8.5; Magazine programme] (£4) SOLD

1923-24: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY NIGHT - April 23 1924 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ben Greet, Ion Swinley, Andrew Leigh, Florence Saunders, John Laurie, Wilfrid Walter, Hay Petrie, Hilton Edwards, George Hayes. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest, with photos of Greet, Foss, Lang, Britton, Thorndike, Robert Atkins and Lilian Baylis.
[4pp; 8.75x11.25; some fold marks and minor edge damage] £12

1924-25 OLD VIC SEASON director: Robert Atkins
Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, John Laurie, George Hayes, Ernest Milton, Robert Atkins, John Garside, Hilton Edwards, Andrew Leigh, Olivia Burleigh

1924-25: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, John Laurie, John Garside, Hilton Edwards, Andrew Leigh [4pp; 5x7.5] (£2) SOLD

1924-25: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Old Vic)
Neil Porter, Marie Ney [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1924-25: MACBETH (Old Vic)
Robert Atkins, Marie Ney or Olivia Burleigh, Ernest Milton, John Garside, Andrew Leigh [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1924-25: THE WINTER'S TALE (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, Robert Atkins, Marie Ney, Hilton Edwards, John Laurie, John Garside, Andrew Leigh, Olivia Burleigh [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1924-25: TWELFTH NIGHT (Old Vic)
Marie Ney, Ernest Milton, Robert Atkins, Andrew Leigh, Olivia Burleigh [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1924-25: OTHELLO (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, George Hayes, Marie Ney, John Laurie, John Garside, Hilton Edwards, Andrew Leigh, Olivia Burleigh [4pp; 5x7.5; clippings not included] £3

1924-25: RICHARD II (Old Vic)
George Hayes, Ion Swinley, John Garside, John Laurie, Hilton Edwards, Andrew Leigh, Marie Ney, Olivia Burleigh [4pp; 5x7.5; spine repaired] (£2) SOLD

1924-25: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, John Garside, Andrew Leigh, Hilton Edwards [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1924-25: TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS - Pinero (Old Vic) opened June 1925
Robert Atkins, Ernest Milton, Marie Ney, Olivia Burleigh, Andrew Leigh, John Garside, dir:Pinero [4pp; 5x7.5] (£3) SOLD

1924-25: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, John Laurie, Marie Ney, John Garside, George Hayes, Andrew Leigh [4pp; 5x7.5; rumpled] £2

1924-25: EVERYMAN (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, Marie Ney, Andrew Leigh, Olivia Burleigh [4pp; 5x7.5; repaired] £2

1924-25: HANNELE - Hauptman & CHESTER NATIVITY PLAY (Old Vic) opened December 1924
Evelyn Neilson, Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, John Laurie, George Hayes, Olivia Burleigh, Andrew Leigh [4pp; 5x7.5] (£2) SOLD

1924-25: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY NIGHT - April 22 1925 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ben Greet, Ernest Milton, Robert Atkins, Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, Wilfrid Walter, Andrew Leigh, Horace Sequeira, Beatrice Wilson, Henry Baynton, Hay Petrie. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest.
[4pp; 8.75x11.5; has been lightly folded in four; very minor edge damage] (£12) SOLD

1925-26 OLD VIC SEASON director: Andrew Leigh
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Frank Vosper, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter

1925-26: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Neil Porter, Duncan Yarrow, John Garside, Esmond Knight, Nell Carter, Margaret Rutherford ("Attendant on Portia") [4pp; 5x7.5; rumpled] £4

1925-26: RICHARD III (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Neil Porter, Duncan Yarrow, Esmond Knight, John Garside, Nell Carter [4pp; 5x7.5] £4


1925-26: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Nell Carter, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5; w.small newspaper clipping - see scan above right; other photo not included] (£4) SOLD

1925-26: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] (£4) SOLD

1925-26: AS YOU LIKE IT (Old Vic)
Frank Vosper, Edith Evans, Baliol Holloway, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: JULIUS CAESAR (Old Vic)
Frank Vosper, Duncan Yarrow, Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Frank Vosper, Esmond Knight, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] (£4) SOLD

1925-26: ROMEO AND JULIET (Old Vic)
Frank Vosper, Nell Carter, Edith Evans, Baliol Holloway, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford (Lady Capulet), John Garside, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: EVERYMAN (Old Vic)
Frank Vosper, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Nell Carter, Neil Porter, Edith Coates [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Frank Vosper, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter, Andrew Leigh [4pp; 5x7.5; with newsclipping - see scan above] (£5) SOLD

1925-26: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Edith Evans, Esmond Knight, Duncan Yarrow, Margaret Rutherford, John Garside, Nell Carter, Neil Porter, Ralph Truman [4pp; 5x7.5] £4

1925-26: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY NIGHT - April 23 1926 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Edith Evans, Ernest Milton, Ben Greet, Robert Atkins, Margaret Rutherford, Ion Swinley, Baliol Holloway, Frank Vosper, Wilfrid Walter, Marie Ney, Lady Benson, Horace Sequeira, Beatrice Wilson, Esmond Knight, Constance Willis. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest.
[4pp; 9x11.5; has been lightly folded in four; minor edge damage] (£15) SOLD

1926-27 OLD VIC SEASON director: Andrew Leigh
Baliol Holloway, Dorothy Massingham, Gwynne Whitby, Neil Porter, John Garside, John Wyse, Duncan Yarrow

1926-27: THE TEMPEST (Old Vic)
Neil Porter, Baliol Holloway [4pp; 5x7.5; "The Orchestra will play Sir Arthur Sullivan's Music"] £3

1926-27: THE WINTER'S TALE (Old Vic)
Duncan Yarrow, Dorothy Massingham, Baliol Holloway [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: CHESTER NATIVITY PLAY and CHRISTMAS EVE - Fyleman (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Dorothy Massingham, Neil Porter, Duncan Yarrow [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: HENRY V (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Dorothy Massingham [4pp; 5x7.5; repaired] £3

1926-27: TWELFTH NIGHT (Old Vic)
Dorothy Massingham, Baliol Holloway [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: COMEDY OF ERRORS and ST.PATRICK'S DAY - Sheridan (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Andrew Leigh, Dorothy Massingham [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: KING JOHN (Old Vic)
Duncan Yarrow, Baliol Holloway, Dorothy Massingham [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: RICHARD III (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway [4pp; 5x7.5] £3

1926-27: OTHELLO (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Neil Porter [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Neil Porter, Dorothy Massingham, Gwynne Whitby [4pp; 5x7.5] £3

1926-27: EVERYMAN (Old Vic)
Baliol Holloway, Neil Porter, Dorothy Massingham [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1926-27: THE OLD VIC MAGAZINE No.4 Vol.8, Dec 1926 (Old Vic)
'Across the Footlights', 'A Reminiscence of Sixty Years Ago' by Dame Madge Kendal, 'A Bouquet of Holly' by Father Andrew, poem by Ashley Dukes, various Old Vic announcements, Diary for December 1926 [4pp; 8.25x10.5; creases, tatty edges, some staining - but unusual!] (£4) SOLD

1926-27: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 22 1927 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ernest Milton, Baliol Holloway, Ben Greet, Robert Atkins, Dorothy Massingham, Frank Vosper, Beatrice Wilson, Andrew Leigh, Hay Petrie, Esmond Knight. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest.
[4pp; 9x11.5; horizontal fold, somewhat knocked] £10

1926-27: LAST NIGHT OF SHAKESPEARE SEASON - May 6 1927 (Old Vic)
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS and REVEL, with Baliol Holloway, Neil Porter, Andrew Leigh, Horace Sequeira, Dorothy Massingham, John Garside, Esmond Knight, dir:Andrew Leigh. A "Souvenir Programme of the Old Vic, prior to alterations"; with engraving of exterior of Old Vic, photograph of interior, and photos of Greet, Andrew Leigh, Foss, Lang, Britton, R.Thorndike, Robert Atkins, and Lilian Baylis.
[4pp; 9x11.5; grubby and a little tatty round the edges; somewhat tatty] £9

1927 OLD VIC SEASON director: Andrew Leigh
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, John Laurie, Eric Portman, Andrew Leigh, Hay Petrie

1927: TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic at Lyric, Hammersmith)
Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, Eric Portman, Andrew Leigh, D.Hay Petrie [4pp; 5.25x8.25; spine slightly tatty] (£3) SOLD

1927: HENRY V (Old Vic at Lyric, Hammersmith)
Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, John Laurie, D.Hay Petrie, Eric Portman [4pp; 5.25x8.25; spine slightly tatty] (£3) SOLD

1928 OLD VIC SEASON director: Andrew Leigh
Ernest Milton, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Eric Portman, Percy Walsh, Barbara Everest, John Garside

1928: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, Percy Walsh, Barbara Everest, Jean Forbes-Robertson [4pp; 5x7.5; photo not included] £4

1928: SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, John Garside, Jean Forbes-Robertson [4pp; 5x7.5] £2

1928: KING LEAR (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, John Garside or Andrew Leigh, Jean Forbes-Robertson [4pp; 5x7.5; somewhat tatty] £2

1928: TWO NOBLE KINSMEN (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, Eric Portman, Barbara Everest [4pp; 5x7.5] (£2) SOLD

1928: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Old Vic)
Ernest Milton, Barbara Everest, Eric Portman, Jean Forbes-Robertson; "Tell me where is fancy bred" composed by Alfred Reynolds [4pp; 5x7.5] (£3) SOLD

1928: EVERYMAN (Old Vic)
Jean Forbes-Robertson, Percy Walsh, Eric Portman [4pp; 5x7.5] (£2) SOLD

1928: THE OLD VIC MAGAZINE No.7 Vol.9, Apr 1928 (Old Vic)
Old Vic News, 'Repertory Work' by Jean Forbes-Robertson, 'My Ambitions' by Wilma Berkeley (pupil of Nellie Melba), 'The First English Actress' by Ernest Weeks, Annual Meeting of the Old Vic Association, Old Vic Announcements, Old Vic Diary for April 1928 [4pp; 8.25x10.5; very light creases, else VG and unusual!] (£4) SOLD

1928: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 23 1928 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Edith Evans, Ernest Milton, Ben Greet, Frank Vosper, Ion Swinley, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Baliol Holloway, Eric Portman, Andrew Leigh, Russell Thorndike, Barbara Everest; dances arranged by Ninette de Valois. An early programme from "The Home of Shakespeare and Opera in English", full of interest.
[4pp; 9x11.5; slightly grubby; has been folded in two; some edge damage] (£10) SOLD

OLD VIC 1914-28 1928-341934-49 1949-56 1956-63

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