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CLASSIC PLAYS: 1930-1939

Classic Plays: 1930

1930: RICHARD III (New Theatre)
Baliol Holloway, Nancy Price, John Laurie, Gerald Lawrence, A.Corney Grain; music:Holst & Vaughan-Williams [20pp; photos] (£5) SOLD

1930: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER- Goldsmith (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Eric Portman, Nigel Playfair, Lydia Sherwood, John Clements [10pp; excellent stylish programme in decorative cover] £5

1930: THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET - Rudolf Besier (Queen's)
Cedric Hardwicke, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Eileen Beldon, Barry K. Barnes, Douglas Quayle, Joan Barry, Scott Sunderland, Marjorie Mars, Harry Wilcoxon; dir:H. K. Ayliff [20pp, 5.5x8.5; 5 photos; minor marks on cover, tiny edge bite, else VG] £5

Classic Plays: 1931

1931: HAMLET (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Godfrey Tearle, Malcolm Keen, Irene Vanbrugh, Margaretta Scott [8pp; 7.25x9.75; light annotations] (£10) SOLD

1931: THE DUENNA - Sheridan (Lyric, Hamersmith)
Leo Sheffield, Scott Russell, Phyllis Evens, des:Sheringham [12pp; 5.5x8.5; inner pages smaller than outer cover, title details on separate label stuck to the outer cover] £5

1931: THE RED ROVER'S REVENGE (Gate Theatre Studio)
W.E.C.Jenkins, Peter Godfrey, Michael MacOwan, John Gatrell, Walter Fitzgerald, Harold Young, Antony Eustrel, Viola Lyel, Irene Freeman [4pp; cast, scenes; attractive programme printed in red and black; slightly rumpled, minor foxing, light bends, else VG] £3

1931 (matinees only): TREASURE ISLAND - Robert Louis Stephenson, James Bernard Fagan (New Theatre)
Tod Slaughter, Sydney Bland, Henry Hallatt, Eliot Makeham, Howard Templeton, Arthur Ridley, Arthur Layland, Charles Carlyle, Alan Robinson, Michael Logan, Philip Stuart, Robert English, Fred Terriss, Dr.Livesey, Noel Dainton, Frederick Peisley, Kyrle Bellew; dir:James Bernard Fagan [20pp, 5.5x8.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; advertisement for: Evenings at 8.15 Tod Slaughter and His Company in The Wolves of Tanner's Close or THE CRIMES OF BURKE AND HARE; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1932

1932: TWELFTH NIGHT programme (New)
Jean Forbes-Robertson, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Arthur Wontner, Robert Atkins, Clare Harris, John Laurie, Norman Forbes; dir:Robert Atkins [famous black and white production; 24pp; 7 small photos of cast as themselves] (£9) SOLD

1932: TWELFTH NIGHT programme (New)
Jean Forbes-Robertson, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Arthur Wontner, Robert Atkins, Clare Harris, John Laurie, Norman Forbes; dir:Robert Atkins [famous black and white production; 20pp; 7 small portraits of cast in character ; slightly tatty] £4

1932: TWELFTH NIGHT photo booklet (New)
Jean Forbes-Robertson, dir:R.Atkins [famous black & white production; 16pp; photo book w.7 full-page in-character photos and copious extracts from reviews; minor marks on cover] (£12) SOLD

1932: JULIUS CAESAR (His Majesty's)
Godfrey Tearle, Baliol Holloway, Lyn Harding, Oscar Asche, James Dale, Lily Brayton, Dorothy Green, Abraham Sofaer, Valentine Dyall; dir:Asche [24pp; 7 full-page portraits; staples rusted, else VG] (£5) SOLD

1932 (Sunday 22 May): LOVE FOR LOVE (Faculty of Arts)
Faculty of Drama: Esmond Knight, Anthony Eustrel, Harold Young, Rodney Millington, George Benson, Hedley Briggs, Tony Sympson, Betty Hardy, Charlotte Leigh, Frances Clare,; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp; cast list etc.; minor creases, else VG; most uncommon programme for this unique Sunday performance] (£3) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1933

1933: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Open-Air Theatre, Regent's Park)
Basil Gill, John Laurie (as Lysander), Jack Carlton, Moreland Graham, Robert Atkins, Valentine Rooke, Margeretta Scott, Agnes Lauchlan, Phyllis Neilson-Terry (as Oberon), Jessica Tandy (as Titania), Leslie French; dir:Robert Atkins [12pp, 7.25x9.75; cast, credits, note about the theatre, map etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1934

1934 (Tuesday August 7th): ROMEO AND JULIET (Open Air, Regent's Park) Press Invitation
Griffith Jones, Margaretta Scott, Eric Dance, Henry Baynton, Leslie French, Hubert Gregg, Terence De Marney, Ben Greet, Sydney Bromley, Michael Martin-Harvey, Laura Smithson; and among the "Citizens of Verona": Greer Garson; dir:Robert Atkins, music:Edward German, Master of the Greensward: Ben Greet [4pp; cast, credits etc.; creased, minor tear, but very uncommon] £4

1934: THE COUNTRY WIFE - Wycherley (Ambassador's)
George Grossmith, Lesley Wareing, John Laurie (as Sparkish), Edmund Willard; dir:B.Holloway [24pp; production photo; stylish magazine programme] £5

1934: AS YOU LIKE IT (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Jack Hawkins, Anna Neagle, John Drinkwater, Leslie French, Nigel Playfair, Robert Eddison, Margaretta Scott, dir:Robert Atkins [12pp; 7.5x9.75; attractive coloured cover; small tear to 2nd page] £3

1934: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Pamela Stanley, Ion Swinley, John Laurie (as Lysander), Andrew Leigh, Robert Atkins, Valentine Rooke, Margaretta Scott, Eileen Beldon, Leslie French; and among the "Attendants to Hippolyta": Greer Garson; dir:Robert Atkins , Master of the Greensward: Ben Greet [12pp, 7.5x9.75; attractive programme from the second season of the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park; cast, credits etc.; attractive coloured cover; VG] £4

1934 (4th July): THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Water Tower Garden, Canterbury)
Ben Greet and The Ben Greet Players, Thea Holme, Stanley Drewitt, George R. Hagan, Wilfred Babbage, Alan Wheatley, Powell Lloyd etc., dir:Ben Greet [single glossy sheet, printed one side; 7.4x9.9; has been lightly folded in four, else v.good; with photo of Ben Greet; most unusual] (£5) SOLD

1934: THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Anton Chekhov, trans.Hubert M.Butler (Cripplegate Theatre)
Ministry of Labour Dramatic Society: Rita Gallally, Harold Dwyer, Clarice Collins, Winifred Maher, Percy Nash, David Brain, Patrick Moriarty; dir:Blake Greenwood [12pp; cast, scenes, producer's note, 14-piece orchestra list, programme of music etc.; most unusual programme for this early amateur production of Chekhov (or "Tchekov"); very light crease, else VG] (£4) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1935

1935 (Mch): THE ALCHEMIST (Embassy)
Hugh Miller, Barry O'Neill, Iris Hoey, Leslie French, Richard Goolden, Bruce Winston, Brember Wills, Hubert Gregg, Horace Sequeira; dir:Olga Katzin [16pp; cast, scenes, credits, music etc.; VG] £4

1935: JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN (Grafton Theatre)
Clephan Bell, Muriel Taylor, Zillah Carter, James Lytton, Peter Hoar; dir:Noel Iliff [12pp; cast, scenes, notes etc.; rusty staples, else VG] £2

1935: LADY PRECIOUS STREAM - S. I. Hsiung (Little Theatre)
People's National Theatre: Esme Percy, Louise Hampton, Charles Lefeaux, Morris Harvey, Prunella Page, Lucille Lisle, Carol Coombe, Amy Dalby, Roger Livesey, Ronald Sidney, Edith Sharpe, Maxwell Reynolds, Michael Osler, Jack Twyman, Geoffrey Wilkinson; dir:Nancy Price and S. I. Hsiung [20pp, 5.5x8.6; 5 cast photos; VG] £4

1935: HENRY IV PT.1 (His Majesty's Theatre)
John Drinkwater (as King Henry IV), Patrick Waddington, George Skillan, Henry Oscar, W.E.Holloway, Edmund Willard, Cecil Ramage, John Laurie (as Earl of Douglas), Lewis Casson (as Owen Glendower), George Robey (as Falstaff), Lawrence Baskomb, Sanchia Robertson, Nora Colton, Lady Tree (as Mistress Quickly); dir:Robert Atkins [24pp, 10 cast photos; interesting and uncommon programme; slightly rumpled, else VG] £6

Classic Plays: 1936

1936: OEDIPUS REX - Sophocles (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Martin Harvey, Miriam Lewes, Baliol Holloway, des:Max Rheinhardt [4pp; 7.5x10; famous Rheinhardt production; lightly creased] (£6) SOLD

1936: HAMLET (Westminster Theatre)
Christopher Oldham, Torin Thatcher, Gillian Scaife, Hermione Hannen, John Moody, Anthony Quayle (Horatio), Mark Dignam, Cecil Trouncer, Eric Wynn Owen; dir:Michael Macowan, des:Peter Goffin [12pp, 7.25x9.7; cast, credits, articles etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD

1936: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Austen/Jerome (St.James's)
Celia Johnson, Athole Stewart, Hugh Williams, Barbara Everest, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Quayle, Viola Lyel, Eva Moore; dir:Gilbert Miller, des:Rex Whistler [24pp, 5.5x8.5; attractive programme, w.list of incidental music, 5 photos etc.; rusty staples, centre pages loose, else VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1937

1937: THE WINTER'S TALE (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Jack Hawkins, Phyllis Neilson Terry, Fay Compton, Ion Swinley, Leslie French; dir:Robert Atkins [12pp, 7.25x9.75; programme from the Fifth Season of the Opera Air Theatre, Regent's Park; VG] £4

1937: UNCLE VANYA - Chekhov (Westminster Theatre)
Harcourt Williams, Cecil Trouncer, Lydia Sherwood, Mark Dignam, Alexis France, Inez Bensusan; dir:Michael Macowan, decor & costumes:Peter Goffin [12pp, 7.25x9.7; cast, credits, article etc.; staples rusted away, else VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1938

1938: TWELFTH NIGHT (Open-Air Theatre, Regent's Park)
Jean Forbes Robertson, Philip Merivale, Roy Byford, David Tree, Gladys Cooper, Buena Bent, Sydney Bromley; dir:Robert Atkins [12pp, 7.3x9.7; cast, credits, note about the theatre etc.; VG] £4

1938: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Open-Air Theatre, Regent's Park)
Jean Forbes Robertson, Edana Romney, Pamela Stanley, Tristan Rawson, Phyllis Grover, Peter Neil, Ballard Berkeley, Margaret Dulac, Oriel Ross, Richard Goolden, Sydney Bromley, Jock McKay, Valentine Rooke, Sepha Treble, Jack Merivale; dir:Robert Atkins [12pp, 7.3x9.75; cast, credits, note about the theatre etc.; VG] £4

1938: THE RIVALS (Holborn Empire)
Roy Byford, Buena Bent, Lesley Wareing, Mary Hignett, John Laurie, Norman Wooland, George Benson, Sydney Bromley, Hugh Burden, Cherry Cottrell; dir:Baliol Holloway [8pp; cast, scenes, notes and news, cast biographies etc.; rumpled, slightly grubby, else VG] (£3) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1939

1939: NORA (A Doll's House) - Henrik Ibsen (Duke of York's)
Lucie Mannheim, Marius Goring, Austin Trevor, Marian Spencer, John Abbott; dir:Lucie Mannheim and Marius Goring [20pp, 5.5x8.4; 9 cast photos; minor interior edge tear, else VG] £4

CLASSIC PLAYS pre1900 1900-29 1930-39 1940-49
1950-59 1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000 on

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