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CLASSIC PLAYS: 1940-1949
Classic Plays: 1940-43
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Classic Plays: 1944
1944: THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY - Dekker (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Walter Hudd, Caven Watson, Andrew Leigh; dir:Hudd [6pp; triple fold; a C.E.M.A. production; VVG] £2
1944 (May): EMMA - Austen/Glennon (Opera House, Manchester)
Anna Neagle, Frank Allenby, Graveley Edwards, Wynne Clark, Ambrosine Philpotts; dir:Jack Minster [4pp; presented by Robert Donat; flimsy, rumpled] £2
Classic Plays: 1945
1945: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Wilde (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Griffith Jones, Isabel Jeans, Geoffrey Toone, Athene Seyler; dir:John Gielgud, des:Cecil Beaton [4pp; VG] £3
Classic Plays: 1946
1946: ROMEO AND JULIET (King's Theatre, Hammersmith)
Basil C.Langton, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight, Michael Goodliffe, Douglas Wilmer, Gerald K.Souper, Horace Sequeira, Eric Porter (as Page to Tybalt), Agnes Lauchlan, Lewis Casson, Francis Crowdy; dir:Clare Harris; Assistant Stage Manager: Graham Crowden [4pp; cast, scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3
1946: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES - Hardy/Gow (New)
Wendy Hiller, William Devlin [8pp; creased and faded] (£1) SOLD
1946: MARRIAGE A LA MODE - Dryden (St.James's)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison, Moira Lister, Frances Rowe, David Peel, Charles Lloyd Pack, John Gatrell [4pp; cast, scenes etc.; rumpled and flimsy, but uncommon] £3
1946: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Oscar Wilde (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Griffith Jones, Isabel Jeans, Dorothy Hyson, Athene Seyler, Geoffrey Toone, Phyllis Relph, Deering Wells, Hugh Stewart, Denys Blakelock; dir:John Gielgud, des:Cecil Beaton [4pp, 5x7; date written on back page, else VG] £3
Classic Plays: 1947
1947: THE WHITE DEVIL - Webster (Duchess)
Margaret Rawlings, Robert Helpmann, Martita Hunt, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Macnee, Heather Stannard, Claire Bloom; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp; rusty staples, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1947: CASTE - Robertson (Duke of York's)
Marie Lohr, Frith Banbury, Clement McCallin [8pp; rumpled, else VG] £2
1947: TIMON OF ATHENS (Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
John Phillips, Paul Eddington, Roy Malcolm, John Paul, Alan MacNaughtan, Edward Horton; dir:Willard Stoker [4pp; cast, credits etc.; rumpled and flimsy, but most unusual] £4
1947 (May): THREE SISTERS - Chekhov (Liverpool Playhouse)
Lorna Whitehouse, Dorothy Reynolds, Nancie Jackson, Cyril Luckham, Peter Jackson, Charles Crichton, Gerald Cross; dir:John Fernald [8pp, 6x9.5; 12 cast photos; VG] £4
Classic Plays: 1948
1948: TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD - Shaw (Arts Theatre)
Marius Goring, Wilfred Walter; dir:E.Percy [16pp; 6x4.75] £2
1948: THE WILD DUCK - Ibsen (St.Martin's)
Anton Walbrook, Fay Compton, Robert Harris, Walter Fitzgerald, Mai Zetterling, Miles Malleson [8pp; cast, scenes, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD
1948: HAMLET (St.James's) Bristol Old Vic Co.
Robert Eddison, Donald Sinden (as Rosencrantz) etc. [small size but with photos] (£5) SOLD
1948: PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - Bunyan/Williamson (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Robert Speaight, Jack Hawkins, Abraham Sofaer, Baliol Holloway, Cathleen Nesbitt, Covent Garden Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Malcolm Sargent, Metropolitan Ballet; dir:Ralph Reader [single-sheet flyer; cast, credits, booking info etc.; VG] (£1) SOLD
Classic Plays: 1949
1949: YOU NEVER CAN TELL - G.B.Shaw (Wyndham's)
Brenda Bruce, James Donald, Ernest Thesiger, Harcourt Williams [8pp] £2
1949: MISS JULIE - Strindberg & VILLAGE WOOING - G.B.Shaw (Lyric Hammersmith)
Joan Miller, Duncan Lamont, Miriam Adams, Brian Haines, Joan Matheson [4pp] £1
1949: THE POWER OF DARKNESS - Tolstoy, trans.Peter Glenville (Lyric)
Stewart Granger, Sonia Dresdel, Mary Clare, Jean Simmons, Herbert Lomas, Perlita Neilson, Frederick Valk [8pp; cast, scenes, 6 character photos etc.; VG] £4
1949: THE BEAUX STRATAGEM - Farquhar (Lyric)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison [4pp; photographic cover; VG] £2
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