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OTHER PLAYS: 1900-1939

Plays: 1900s

1901: THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY - Grossmith (Avenue) Weedon Grossmith [12pp; 4.75x7.25; parted from slightly rusty staple] £3

1906: THE BEAUTY OF BATH - Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton (Aldwych) Ellaline Terriss, Seymour Hicks, William Lugg, Bert Sinden, Rosina Filippi, Sydney Fairbrother [12pp, 6.25x10; cast, credits, light vertical fold, else VG] £4

1906: HIS HOUSE IN ORDER - Pinero (St.James's) George Alexander, Irene Vanbrugh [12pp, 7.4x9.9; photographic portraits of George Alexander and Irene Vanbrugh, and eleven further individual portraits of Beryl Faber, Bella Pateman, Herbert Waring, Iris Hawkins, Marcelle Chevalier, E. Lyall Swete, C.M.Lowne, Dawson Milward, Vivian Reynolds, Nigel Playfair, and Robert Horton; pronounced vertical fold, slight edge damage, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1909: DON - Besier (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Charles Quartermaine, Dawson Milward, Charlotte Granville [8pp; 6.75x8.75; some tiny tears] £3

Plays: 1910s

1914: THE DARLING OF THE GODS - Belasco/Long (His Majesty's) Herbert Tree, Marie Lohr [6pp; 8.7x11.25; slightly knocked, else VG] £4

1916: DADDY LONG-LEGS - Jean Webster (Duke of York's) Charles Waldron, Dorothy Dix, Evelyn Hope, Renee Kelly [12pp, 8.25x9.75; cast, credits; some minor edge damage, else VG] £4

1918: THE PURPLE MASK - Armont, Manoussi, Latour (Lyric) Matheson Lang, Nona Wynne, Alice Moffat, Russell Thorndike, Amy Brandon-Thomas, Frederic Sargent, Alice Phillips, Alfred Brandon [8pp, 7x9.5; The Male Members of the Company have either served with the Colours, are exempted, or are ineligible for Military Service; VG] £4

1919: THE BIRD OF PARADISE - Tully (Lyric) Lyn Harding [8pp;7x9.5; some marks on cover, slight fold, else VG] £3

Plays: 1920s

1921: IF - Lord Dunsany (Ambassadors) Gladys Cooper, Henry Ainley, Leslie Banks, Marda Vanne, George Hayes; dir:Nigel Playfair, designed by C.Lovat Fraser [4pp; light horizontal fold, else VG] £3

1922 (Feb): THE KNAVE OF DIAMONDS - Ethel M. Dell, dramatised by Charlton Mann (King's Theatre, Hammersmith) Violet Vanbrugh, H.St.Barbe-West, Cyril Griffiths, Alexander Scott, Sybil Carlisle, Louise Wynne; dir:Stanley Bell, special music by Norman O'Neill [4pp, 7.5x10; direct from The Globe Theatre; cast, credits, future plans; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1922: TONS OF MONEY - Will Evans and Valentine (Shaftesbury) Ralph Lynn, J.Robertson Hare, Mary Brough, Yvonne Arnaud; dir:Holman Clark [10pp; Magazine Programme; VG] (£4) SOLD

1923: SECRETS - Rudolf Besier & May Edginton (Comedy) Fay Compton, Doris Mansell, Fabia Drake, Bobbie Andrews, Cecil Trouncer, Hubert Harben, Louise Hampton, Margaret Scudamore, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Ian Fleming, Mary Clare [20pp; Magazine Programme; very much rumpled and marked, but full of content!] £3

1923: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - Karel Capek (St.Martin's) Ian Hunter, Beatrix Thompson, Gilbert Ritchie, Frances Carson, Charles V.France, Brember Wills, Malcolm Keen, Ada King, Leslie Banks, Olga Lindo, Alan Howland; the production devised by Basil Dean [20pp, 7.25x9.75; Magazine Programme; The Reandean News Sheet, Vol.1 No.5; cast biographies, etc. etc.; uncommon; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1925: ARE YOU A MASON? (Kingsway Theatre) Bromley Challenor, Martin Lewis, Richard Cooper, Derek Bromley Challenor, Muriel Kidner, Elizabeth Arkell, Kitty McVeach; dir:Bromley Challenor [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; Magazine Programme, with extensive articles and sketches; "The World's Longest Laugh"; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1925: JUST MARRIED - Adelaide Mathews and Ann Nichols (Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton) Arthur Mack, Honor Byrne, C.Barclay, Margaret Skewis, Patricia Danson, Charles Aldred, Hetta Bartlett, Dorothy Edelsten, R.Stuart West, Richard Blair; dir:Lionel Bute [8pp; flimsy, slightly rumpled else VG] £2

1925: WHITE CARGO - Leon Gordon (Princes) Godfrey Tearle, Dorie Sawyer; dir:Ida Molesworth [8pp; "A vivid Play of the Primitive Unvarnished Life in the Tropics"; rumpled, minor edge damage, else VG] £4

1926: THE CHINESE BUNGALOW - Marion Osmond and James Corbet (Golders Green Hippodrome) Matheson Lang, Winifred Izard, Bruce Belfrage, May Ward, Shayle Gardner; "Overture and incidental music composed by John Ansell" [20pp; Magazine Programme No.578; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1926: THE BEST PEOPLE - Gray/Hopwood (Lyric) Nora Swinburne, Ian Hunter, Olga Lindo [8pp; 7x9.25; a few marks else VG] £3

1926: THE GHOST TRAIN - Arnold Ridley (Winter Gardens and Opera House, Blackpool) Campbell Goldsmid, Basil Radford, Ethel Warwick, Michael Woods, Rosa Thornbury; dir:Lionelle Howard [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast, credits, repertoire of music, Late Trains (if you dare); slightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1926: THE LAST OF MRS.CHEYNEY - Frederick Lonsdale (St.James's Theatre) Gerald du Maurier, Gladys Cooper, Henry Wolston, Ronald Squire, Basil Loder, J.Smith Wright, Frank Lawton, E.H.Paterson, A.Harding Steerman, Ellis Jeffreys, May Whitty, Mabel Sealby, Gladys Gray, Violet Campbell; dir:Gerald du Maurier [20pp, 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme, cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, extensive articles, photograph of Miss Ellis Jeffreys w.interview; a few marks else VG] £5

1927: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE - Bernard Shaw (Grand Theatre, Leeds) S.Esme Percy, George E.Bancroft, Dora Macdoma, Bessie Rignold, Frank Darch, Margot Drake, George Larchet, George De Lara, Miss Edith Ife, Terence Duff, Miss Nan Doe, Vivian Beynon, Howieson Culff, Leonard Crossley; dir:S.Esme Percy [8pp; cast list, credits, synopsis of scenes, repertoire of music, forthcoming attractions, Late Train times etc.; The Macdona Players in Plays by George Bernard Shaw, direct from the Kingsway Theatre, London; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1927: THE GARDEN OF EDEN - R.Bernauer and R.Oesterreicher (Lyric Theatre) Tallulah Bankhead, Eva Moore, Eric Maturin, Leonard Brett, Edward Irwin, Barbara Gott, Robert Mawdesley, Arthur Bond, John McCallum (as Servant to the Prince); dir:William Mollison [10pp, 7.9.25; cast, synopsis of scenes, credits, theatre information; Miss Bankhead's Gowns specially designed by MOLYNEUX, Paris; uncommon; very light vertical bend, else VG] £5

1927: SCARAMOUCHE - Sabatini (Garrick) Martin Harvey [20pp; 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme No.641; a few marks else VG] (£4) SOLD

1927: THE GHOST TRAIN - Ridley (Garrick) Mary Clare, Richard Bird [20pp, 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme No.631; a few marks else VG] £4

1928: THE LETTER - Somerset Maugham (Grand Theatre, Leeds) Gladys Cooper, Tristan Rawson, George Carr, Tom Mills, Robert Newton, Una Venning; dir:Gerald du Maurier [8pp; cast, credits, synopsis of scenes; forthcoming attractions, theatre information; preceded by 'The Drums of Oude' by Austin Strong; VG] £3

1928: THE RINGER - Edgar Wallace (Theatre Royal, Leeds) Brian O'Dare, Yourke Challoner, Drew Mackintosh, Sydney Benson, Charles Barrett, Oliver Johnston, Kathleen Carroll, Ida Long, Bernard Lea, Franklin Silver, Steve Murtagh, Iris Vandeleur, Derek Mitchell, Peter Collins, Frank Foy, Jack Armitage [12pp; cast, credits, synopsis of scenes, production photo; the Great Success Direct from Wyndham's Theatre; VG] £3

1928: MARIGOLD (Kingsway) Angela Baddeley, Deering Wells, Katie Johnson, Jean Cadell, Beatrice Wilson, Athole Stewart; dir:Norman Page [24pp; Magazine Programme No.674; VG] £4

1928: THE SPORT OF KINGS - Ian Hay (Savoy) Mary Jerrold, E. Holman Clark, Rosaline Courtneidge, Adele Dixon [20pp; Magazine Programme No.512; VG] £4

1928: TWO WHITE ARMS - Harold Dearden (Lewisham Hippodrome) Owen Nares, Sydney Fairbrother, Marda Vanne, Julian Andrews, Nigel Bruce; dir:Leon M. Lion [8pp; VG] £3

1929: ROPE - Hamilton (Ambassadors) Brian Aherne, Ernest Milton [24pp, 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme No.745; VG] (£4) SOLD

1929: MRS.MOONLIGHT - Benn W. Levy (Kingsway) Leon Quartermaine, Joan Barry, Mary Barton, Alison Leggatt, Robert Douglas; dir:W. Graham Browne [20pp; Magazine Programme No.724; minor edge damage, else VG] £4

1929: JOURNEY'S END - R.C.Sherriff (Prince of Wales) Colin Clive, Maurice Evans, George Zucco, Robert Speaight; dir: John Whale; setting designed by James Whale [24pp, 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme No.745; 4 excellent production photographs; repaired tears and marks on cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1929: THE FIRST MRS.FRASER - St.John Ervine (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Marie Tempest, Henry Ainley, Robert Andrews, Margaretta Scott, Ursula Jeans [12pp, 7.25x9.75; cast list, credits, synopsis of scenes, programme of music, large photos of Marie Tempest, Henry Ainley, and Ursula Jeans; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1929: THE FIRST MRS.FRASER - St.John Ervine (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Marie Tempest, Henry Ainley, Robert Andrews, Margaret Riddick, Eileen Peel [12pp, 7.25x9.75; cast list, credits, synopsis of scenes, programme of music, large photos of Marie Tempest, Henry Ainley, and Ursula Jeans; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1929: THE FIRST MRS.FRASER - St.John Ervine (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Marie Tempest, Henry Ainley, Robert Andrews, Margaretta Scott, Ursula Jeans [4pp, 7.75x10.25; cast list, credits, synopsis of scenes, programme of music; slightly rumpled w.horizontal crease, else VG] £3

1929 (19-31 August): MALVERN FESTIVAL SOUVENIR (Malvern Theatre)
The G.B.Shaw plays presented during the 1929 Festival were, THE APPLE CART, BACK TO METHUSELAH! (all 5 parts), CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, and HEARTHBREAK HOUSE. This attractive souvenir contains information about the Festival, a photo and biography of George Bernard Shaw, an article about Malvern (illustrated with 5 photos), notes on the Plays, full programme of the Festival, an article w.photo about Barry Jackson and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, biographies w.photos of H.K.Ayliff (producer) and Paul Shelving (designer), Theatre Seating Plan and 4 photos of the foyer and interior of the Malvern Theatre, and over 40 photos of the staff and the actors appearing in the Festival, including Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evans, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Eileen Beldon, Charles Carson, Scott Sunderland, Barbara Everest, Margaret Chatwin, James Carew, Matthew Boulton, Clifford Marquand, Julian D'Albie, Aubrey Mallalieu, Frank Moore, Antony Eustrel, Wallace Evennett, Eve Turner, Yvette Pienne, Isabel Thornton, Phyllis Shand, Daphne Heard, Harry Wilcoxon, Norman Claridge, H.Lyon and many more [40pp enclosed in a protective cover; very slightly rumpled, else VG; very uncommon] £8

Plays: 1930

1930: FRENCH LEAVE - Berkeley (Vaudeville) Emlyn Williams, Madeleine Carroll, Charles Groves, Edward Scott-Gatty; dir:Eille Norwood [12pp; 4 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £3

1930: A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED - Emlyn Williams (St.James's) Margaretta Scott, Henry Kendall, Veronica Turleigh, Amy Veness [20pp, 4 photos; slightly grubby, else VG] £3

1930: CAPE FORLORN - Frank Harvey (Fortune) Edmund Willard, Marda Vanne, Louis Bradfield; dir:Tom Walls [20pp, 7.4x9.75; 4 photos; foxing and fold to cover, minor marks, else VG] £4

1930-1932: THE BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE - 28 PROGRAMMES
Twenty-eight programmes from the most adventurous repertory theatre of the 1930s. The Theatre Director was Sir Barry Jackson, and all the plays were directed by Maxwell Wray. The plays are 1930: THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE - Henry Gheon & MADAME PEPITA - G.Martinez Sierra, CHARMEUSE - Temple Thurston, THE WARRIORS OF HELGELAND - Ibsen, HELEN WITH THE HIGH HAND - Richard Pryce/Arnold Bennett, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD - J.M.Synge, THE DOVER ROAD - A.A.Milne, THE GOOD OLD DAYS - Eden & Adelaide Phillpotts; 1931: TWELVE THOUSAND - Bruno Frank & THE MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT - A.A.Milne, THE MACROPULOS SECRET - Karel Capek, THE HAVEN - Dorothy Massingham, SEE NAPLES AND DIE - Elmer Rice, THE YELLOW STREAK - Mabel Ellams Hope, OUTWARD BOUND - Sutton Vane, INHERITORS - Susan Glaspell, BADGER'S GREEN - R.C.Sherriff, CONFLICT - Miles Malleson, HAY FEVER - Noel Coward, THE SECOND MAN - S.N.Behrman, CANARIES SOMETIMES SING - Frederick Lonsdale, BY CANDLE LIGHT - Siegfried Geyer/Harry Graham, GRANITE - Clemence Dane & BIRD IN HAND - John Drinkwater, BIRD IN HAND - John Drinkwater & THE DAY OF HIS RETURN - Zofja Nalkowska, BIRD IN HAND - John Drinkwater & R.U.R. - Karel Capek, MR.PIM PASSES BY - A.A.Milne (w.Irene Vanbrugh) & THE BEAR - Tchekov, THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF - Ashley Dukes & DELICATE GROUND - Charles Dance; 1932: STREET SCENE - Elmer Rice, THE CONSTANT NYMPH - Margaret Kennedy/Basil Dean, TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM - William W. Pratt. Members of the company include Sybil Arundale, Michael Barry, Basil Bartlett, Olga Birkbeck, Alfred Burton, Richard Caldicot, Betty Cooper, Oswald Dale Roberts, Robert Eley, Henry Fielding, Muriel Forbes-Robertson, Kenneth Fraser, Reginald Gatty, Freda Gaye, Stanley Groome, Margery Harper, Winifred Hindle, Carleton Hobbs, Jocelyn Huband, Felix Irwin, Margaret Kennedy, John Lauriston, Richard Littledale, Marjorie Lyon, Kirsty Mackintosh, Mary Marvin, Cicely Oates, Carl Preston, Sidney Rennef, Dorine a Shirley, Sophie Stewart, John Stone, Isabel Thornton, Mary Tinley, Edmund Tottenham, Dorothy Turner, Jack Twyman, Charles Victor, Margaret Vines, Joyce Ware, Fred Webb etc. [28 programmes, 16-20pp each, 5.5x8.5; in remarkable condition, with just minor marks, and (unusually) only very slightly rusted staples - they might have been printed last week; a few of these programmes have cast photos and biographies] (£25) SOLD

Plays: 1931

1931: CAVALCADE - Coward (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) Mary Clare, John Mills [32pp; 6 photos; VVG] (£6) SOLD

1931: LEAN HARVEST - Ronald Jeans (St.Martin's) Leslie Banks, Diana Wynyard, Nigel Bruce, Isabel Wilford, Wilfred Babbage, J.H.Roberts, Evelyn Moore; dir:Raymond Massey [12pp; date on cover, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1931: OTHER GATES - Bertha N.Graham (Grafton) Frederick Cooper, Margery Bryce, Denis Green [4pp; VG] £2

Plays: 1932

1932: CHILDREN IN UNIFORM - Winsloe (Duchess) Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Tandy [20pp; 40+ cast photos!; VG] £4

1932: TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM A Temperance Drama by William W. Pratt (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Henry Fielding, Basil Bartlett, Graham Stuart, Charles Victor, Oswald Dale Roberts, Richard Caldicot, Philip Howard, Winifred Hindle, William J.Rea, Jocelyn Huband, Mary Marvin, Sybil Arundale; dir:Maxwell Wray [20pp; A grand old melodrama with songs and music; title written on cover, minor marks, else VG] £3

1932: CAVALCADE - Coward (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) Mary Clare, Edward Sinclair, John Mills [28pp; 6 photos; rumpled, else VVG] £5

1932: NIGHT OF THE GARTER (Strand) Sydney Howard, Angela Baddeley, Connie Ediss, Austin Melford, Jane Welsh, Marjorie Brooks [12pp; 6 cast photos; Magazine Programme; minor marks, else VG] £4

1932: THE MIRACLE - Karl Vollmoeller (Lyceum) Tilly Losch, Leonide Massine, Glen Byam Shaw, Lyn Harding, Diana Manners; dir: Max Reinhardt, music: Engelbert Humperdinck, dances and ensembles: Leonide Massine, scenery and decorations: Professor Oskar Strnad, costumes: Oliver Messel [20pp, 5.5x8.5; 2 production photos, 7 cast and production team photos, list of scenes and episodes, extensive 5-page synopsis; attractive programme for this famous production; minor marks, slight split at spine, else VG] £5

1932: THE ADOLESCENTS (Krankheit de Jugend) - Ferdinand Bruckner (Gate Theatre Studio) Beatrix Lehmann, George Coulouris, Antony Eustrel; dir:Peter Godfrey [4pp, 7.5x11; folds, minor marks, else VG] £3

1932: FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT - Georg Kaiser, trans:Ashley Dukes (Gate Theatre Studio) Peter Godfrey, Antony Eustrel, Noel Iliff, George Coulouris, Frances Clare, Derrick de Marney, Hermione Gingold; dir:Peter Godfrey [4pp; with table of "Stage expenses" for the Gate Theatre Studio during the 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31 seasons; attractive cover design by "Ashley"; folds, some foxing, else VG] £4

Plays: 1933

1933: NIGHT OF THE GARTER (Strand) Sydney Howard, Angela Baddeley, Connie Ediss, Austin Melford, Jane Welsh, Marjorie Brooks [24pp, 5.5x8.5; 6 cast photos; Magazine Programme; minor marks, detached from cover, else VG] £4

1933: FIFTY-FIFTY - Verneuil/Berr/Maltby (Aldwych) Ralph Lynn, J.Robertson Hare, Maidie Hope, Mary Brough [24pp; Magazine Programme No.933; interesting articles; marks] £2

1933: WHEN LADIES MEET - Rachel Crothers (Streatham Hill) Ann Todd, Owen Nares, Marie Tempest, Ivan Samson, George Relph, Boris Ranevsky, Mary Newcomb [24pp; Magazine Programme No.964; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £4

1933: BETWEEN FRIENDS (Shaftesbury) Basil Foster, Hugh Wakefield, Jimmy Godden, Marjorie Taylor, Madeleine Lambert, Athole Stewart, Cyril Smith, Muriel Dole [24pp; smart programme; 8 cast photos, 5 photos of past productions; minor marks, else VG] £4

1933: WHISTLING IN THE DARK - Laurence Gross/Edward Childs Carpenter (Comedy) Richard Bird, Billie Riccardo, dir:A.R.Whatmore [24pp; 3 large cast photos; cover partially spilt at spine, minor marks, else VG] £3

1933: CAESAR'S FRIEND - Campbell Dixon, Dermot Morrah (Piccadilly) D.A.Clarke-Smith, Francis L. Sullivan, Gillian Lind, Robert Speaight, Richard Goolden, Dorothy Darke; dir:Robert Atkins [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1933-34: MARY OF SCOTLAND - Anderson (Colonial Theatre, Boston, USA) Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale, Helen Menken [16pp; w.inserts; VVG] £3

1933: ESCAPE ME NEVER! - Kennedy (Apollo) Elizabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Leon Quartermaine, Katie Johnson, Griffith Jones, Peter Bull; dir:Komisajevsky [20pp; 4 photos; rumpled, minor edge damage, else VVG] £4

1933: HINKEMANN - Ernst Toller (Gate Theatre Studio) Peter Godfrey, Ruth Taylor, Caroline Keith, W.E.C.Jenkins [4pp; foxing, folds, else VG] £3

1933 (Apr): THIS ONE MAN - Sidney Buchan (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Alan Webb, Gillian Lind, Frank Royde, Harold Young, Roy Emerton; dir:Andre Van Gyseghem [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £3

1933 (Nov): THE MAN WHO WAS FED UP - Frederick Witney (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Alastair Sim, Peggy Simpson, Henry Thompson, Barbara Couper, Brian Oulton; dir:Frank Birch [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £4

1933: TEN MINUTE ALIBI - Armstrong (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) John Garside [16pp; water marks] (£1) SOLD

1933?: THIS SIDE IDOLATRY - Jenings (Lyric) Leslie Howard, Margaret Rawlings [20pp; 7 photos; VVG] (£3) SOLD

1933: THE LAKE - Massingham (Piccadilly) May Whitty, Esme Church, Marie Ney, Alan Napier; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [16pp; 5 photos; VG] (£3) SOLD

Plays: 1934

1934: COUNSELLOR AT LAW - Elmer Rice (Piccadilly) Vivienne Bennett [20pp; elegant blue/black cover; VG] £2

1934: TOUCH WOOD - C.L.Anthony (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Marie Ney, Flora Robson, Ian Hunter, Dorothy Hyson, Dennis Arundell, Frank Pettingell; dir:Basil Dean [20pp; very light fold, minor marks, else VG] £4

1934: THE MOON IS RED - Dension Clift/Frank Gregory (Daly's) Joyce Bland, Helen Goss, Hugh Miller, George Curzon, Eille Norwood, Austin Trevor; dir:Frank Gregory [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1934: EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES - Kaestner (Vaudeville) People's National Theatre production: Tony Wickham Jones, Cecil Trouncer, Billy Thatcher and many others; dir:Henry Cass [16pp; slightly grubby, minor marks, else VG] £3

1934: HALF-A-CROWN - Douglas Furber/Arnold Ridley (Aldwych) Sydney Howard, Eileen Peel, Nigel Patrick, Malcolm Keen, Rosalind Atkinson, John Mortimer; dir:Leslie Henson [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1934: THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT - Zoe Akins (Duke of York's) Hermione Baddeley, Angela Baddeley, Margaret Rawlings, Robert Newton, Clive Morton; dir:A.R.Whatmore [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1934: LIVING DANGEROUSLY - Reginald Simpson/Frank Gregory (Streatham Hill) George Relph, Madge Saunders, Wilfred Caithness; dir:Leslie Henson [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1033; minor marks, else VG] £3

1934: DEAR BRUTUS - J.M.Barrie (Embassy) Richard Goolden, Vernon Sylvaine, Barbara Couper [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, rusty staples, else VG] £2

1934 (Dec): THE DOMINANT SEX - Michael Egan (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Diana Churchill, Richard Bird, Rene Ray, Ellen Pollock; dir:John Fernald [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1934 (May): THE ROOF - John Galsworthy (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Vernon Sylvaine, Alan Wheatley, Anthony Quayle, Alan Napier, Alfred Sangster, Trevor Ward [24pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, loose pages secured with tape, else VG] £3

1934: YOUTH AT THE HELM - Paul Vulpius/Hubert Griffith (Westminster Repertory Theatre) Alastair Sim, O.B.Clarence, David Bird, Vera Lennox, Jack Melford; dir:Harold French [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1934: RICHARD OF BORDEAUX - Gordon Daviot (Theatre Royal, Brighton) Glen Byam Shaw, Angela Baddeley, Robert Morley, Alan Webb, Frith Banbury, Charles Cautley, Richard Warner, Antony Eustrel; dir:Bernard Gordon, music:Herbert Menges [8pp, 7.4x9.75; an attractive programme, with a production photo; uncommon; minor marks, else VG] £5

Plays: 1935

1935: NIGHT MUST FALL (Duchess) Emlyn Williams, May Whitty, Angela Baddeley, Basil Radford, Kathleen Harrison; dir:Miles Malleson [24pp; 5 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1935: ESPIONAGE - Hackett (Apollo) Marion Lorne, Frank Cellier, Edwin Styles, Jeanne Stuart, J.H.Roberts, Cyril Smith, Eric Maturin, Ronda Keane, Elvira Henderson [24pp; 9 photos; cartoon-style cover; VVG] £3

1935: LOVE ON THE DOLE - Gow/Greenwood (Garrick) Wendy Hiller [20pp; Magazine Prog No.1043; small tear to cover] (£2) SOLD

1935: CLOSE QUARTERS - Somin/Lennox (Savoy) Flora Robson, Oscar Homolka; dir:Irene Hentschel [24pp; 3 photos; VG] £3

1935: SOMEONE AT THE DOOR - Christie (Comedy) Henry Kendall, Nancy O'Neil, William Fox [28pp; 7 photos; centre pages loose, else VG] £3

1935: CLOSING AT SUNRISE - Carruthers (Royalty) Joan Marion, Percy Marmont, Shirley Houston, Anthony Ireland, Betty Marsden, Norman Shelley [24pp magazine programme; 9 photos; VG] £3

1935: THE DOMINANT SEX - Egan (Aldwych) Diana Churchill, Richard Bird; dir:John Fernald [24pp magazine programme; 4 photos; VG] £3

1935?: THE UNGUARDED HOUR - Merivale (Phoenix) Godfrey Tearle, Rachel Berendt, Malcolm Keen [20pp; 3 photos; VG] £3

1935: LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT (Daly's) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Betty Daussmond, Alice Beylat, Pauline Carton [20pp; 5 cast photos; minor marks, some damp damage, else VG] £3

1935: THEATRE ROYAL - Edna Ferber/Georg Kaufman (Lyric) Marie Tempest, Madge Titheradge, Robert Douglas, George Zucco, Wallace Douglas, W.Graham-Browne, Tristan Rawson; dir:Noel Coward, decor:Gladys Calthrop [20pp; 3 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1935: THE PLEASURE GARDEN - Beatrice Mayor (Grafton) Viola Lyel, Arthur Young, Wilfred Grantham, Ethel Ramsay, Gwladys Evan Morris, Phyllis Blewitt; dir:Noel Iliff [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1935: DISTINGUISHED GATHERING - James Parish (St.Martin's) Frank Vosper, Barbara Couper, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Ronald Ward, John Garside, Joan Hickson, Roland Culver; dir:John Fernald [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1935: COINCIDENCE - Byers Robertson (St.Martin's) Jack Hawkins, Ena Burrill, Barry K.Barnes; dir:Claud Gurney [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1935: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL - T.S.Eliot (Mercury) Robert Speaight, John Gill, Alan Gordon, Norman Tyrrell, Johnstone Barr, Alan Judd, Gerik Schjelderup, Norman Chidgey, Paul Stephenson; dir:E.Martin Browne [4pp, 4.25x11; tatty edges, minor marks, else VG] (£2) SOLD

1935 (Feb): CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - M.Gaston Baty (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Stephen Haggard, Ann Wilton, Geoffrey Dale, Trevor Howard, John Garside, Brember Wills, Gertrude Sterroll; dir:John Fernald [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £4

1935 (Feb): AT 8 A.M. - Jan Fabricius (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Marda Vanne, Wyndham Goldie, Shirley Bax, Evan Thomas, Margaret Carter; dir:John Fernald [16pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £3

1935 (Oct): THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON - J.M.Barrie (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Gyles Isham, Alan Wheatley, Nancy Hornsby, Michael Dyne, Russell Thorndike; dir:John Fernald [12pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £3

Plays: 1936

1936: THE FROG - Hay/Wallace (Princes) Jack Hawkins, Gordon Harker, Christine Barry, Frank Pettingell, Herbert Lomas, Percy Parsons, Cyril Smith [24pp; 7 full-page photos; date on cover, slightly grubby, else VG] £4

1936: AREN'T MEN BEASTS? - Sylvaine (Strand) John Mills [24pp; Magazine Prog No.1115; 9 photos; date on cover else VG] £3

1936: PARNELL - Schauffler (New) Margaret Rawlings, Wyndham Goldie, Marda Vanne, Glen Byam Shaw, Laurier Lister; dir:Norman Marshall [8pp; photographic cover; VG] £3

1936: THE KING AND MISTRESS SHORE - Bax (Little Theatre) Joan Maude, Esmond Knight, Gyles Isham, Pamela Brown, Joyce Redman; dir:Nancy Price [24pp magazine programme, with insert notes; 3 photos; "The People's National Theatre"; VG] (£4) SOLD

1936 (Jun): THE INSECT PLAY - Capek (Little Theatre) Edmund Willard, A.Bromley-Davenport, Bobby Rietti, Julian Somers, Joyce Redman, Esmond Knight; dir:Nancy Price [20pp Magazine Programme No.1112; list of "The People's National Theatre" productions 1930-36; date written on cover, light vertical fold, else VG] £4

1936 (Oct): THE INSECT PLAY - Capek (Little Theatre) Edmund Willard, A.Bromley-Davenport, Marta Mitrovich, James Lytton, Joyce Redman, Jack Allen; dir:Nancy Price [24pp Magazine Programme No.1128; 2 photos; list of "The People's National Theatre" productions 1930-36; centre pages loose, else VG] £4

1936: THE MAN IN DRESS CLOTHES - Hicks/Picard/Mirande (Victoria Palace) Seymour Hicks, Sydney Tafler, Margaretta Scott, Phyllis Thomas [20pp; 3 good photos; VG] £4

1936: NIGHT MUST FALL - Williams (Duchess) Emlyn Williams, May Whitty, Angela Baddeley, Kathleen Harrison, Basil Radford, Miles Malleson [28pp; 5 photos, press opinions, cast biographies, note on the play; VG] (£4) SOLD

1936: PRIVATE LIVES - Coward (Victoria Palace) Basil Langton, Valerie Larg; dir:Martin Sabine [20pp; VG] £2

1936: AFTER OCTOBER - Ackland (Aldwych) Mary Clare, Griffith Jones, John Moody, Diana Beaumont, Iris Baker; dir:A.R.Whatmore [20pp; 6 photos; VG] £3

1936: THE BOY DAVID - Barrie (His Majesty's) Elisabeth Bergner, John Martin-Harvey, Leon Quartermaine, Godfrey Tearle, Ion Swinley, Robert Eddison, dir:Komisarjevsky [16pp; photo] (£4) SOLD

1936: CHARLES THE KING - Maurice Colbourne (Lyric) Barry Jones, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Morland Graham, Maurice Colbourne, Hugh Grant, Betty Hardy, Richard Watson, Noel Howlett; decor:Motley, music:Herbert Menges [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: LAUGHTER IN COURT - Hugh Mills (Shaftesbury) Yvonne Arnaud, Ronald Squire, Anthony Bruce; dir:John Hastings Turner [16pp; 2 photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: HELL-FOR-LEATHER! - Barre Lyndon (Phoenix) Anthony Ireland, Alec Clunes, Kathleen Kelly, Sam Wilkinson, Ronald Shiner, Victor Rietti [20pp; Magazine Programme No.1136; minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: 3 MEN ON A HORSE - John Cecil Holm/George Abbott (Wyndham's) Romney Brent, Bernard Nedell, Claire Carleton, William Butler Hixon, Tucker McGuire, David Burns, Edmond Ryan, Maurice Freeman, Ralph Chambers, Sara Seegar, Jack Arnold [28pp; cast photos and biographies; small bite out of back cover, minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: CALL IT A DAY - Dodie Smith (Globe) Fay Compton, Owen Nares, Patricia Hilliard, Valerie Taylor, Austin Trevor, Marie Lohr; dir:Basil Dean [20pp; 7 cast photos, minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: LOVE FROM A STRANGER - (New) Frank Vosper, Marie Ney, Muriel Aked, Norah Howard, Esma Cannon [24pp; 4 photos; rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: SATURDAY'S CHILDREN - Maxwell Anderson/Cecil Madden (Wimbledon Theatre) Hermione Baddeley, Robert Newton, Phyllis Konstam [12pp; minor marks, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1936: SOMEONE AT THE DOOR Dorothy & Campbell Christie (Streatham Hill) Henry Kendall, Iris Travers, Lewis Stringer, Francis de Wolff [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1103; minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L.Sayers/M.St.Clare Byrne (Comedy) Dennis Arundell, Veronica Turleigh, Barrie Livesey, Maurice Denham; dir:Beatrice Wilson [20pp; 2 photos; minor marks, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1936: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL - T.S.Eliot (Mercury) Robert Speaight, Alfred Clark, Denis Carey, Frank Napier, Stuart Latham, Guy Belmore, G.R.Schjelderup, Norman Chidgey, E.Martin Browne; Properties made by Bernard Miles [4pp; minor marks, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1936: VINTAGE WINE - Hicks/Dukes & IT'S YOU I WANT - Braddell (Regal, Minehead) Seymour Hicks [4pp; slightly marked, else VG] £1

1936: A BRIDE FOR THE UNICORN - Johnston (Westminster Theatre) Godfrey Kenton; dir:Denis Johnston, music:Arthur Duff [8pp, 7.25x9.6; Longford Production; VG] £2

1936: WASTE - Harley Granville-Barker (Westminster) Stephen Murray, Nina Boucicault, Catherine Lacey, A.Scott-Gatty, Cecil Trouncer, Nicholas Hannen, Harcourt Williams, Felix Aylmer, Mark Dignam; dir:Harley Granville-Barker & Michael Macowan; decor:Peter Goffin [8pp; centre pages loose, minor marks, else VG] £3

1936 (Sep): OSCAR WILDE - Leslie & Sewell Stokes (Gate Studio Theatre) Robert Morley, John Bryning, Frith Banbury, Reginald Beckwith, John Carol, Harry Hutchinson, Andrew Cruickshank; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp, 7x11; folds, slight adhesion mark on back, minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £3

1936 (Oct): PLOT TWENTY-ONE - Rodney Ackland (Embassy Repertory Theatre) Molly Rankin, Avice Landone, Clare Greet, John Ruddock, Margaret Scudamore, Jack Livesey; dir:Rodney Ackland and Harold Clayton [12pp, 6.5x8.5; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1936 (Dec): THE CHILDREN'S HOUR - Lillian Hellman (Gate Studio Theatre) Ursula Jeans, Valerie Taylor, Mavis Edwards, Leo Genn, Mary Merrall [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £4

Plays: 1937

1937: A SPOT OF BOTHER - Sylvaine (Strand) Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Phyllis Konstam; dir:Leslie Henson [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1184; 5 photos; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1937: CHARLES THE KING - Maurice Colbourne (Lyric) Barry Jones, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies [16pp; blue/red/cream cover; production designed by Motley; 2 photographic portraits; date stamp and title on cover, else VG] £4

1937: THE AMAZING DR.CLITTERHOUSE - Lyndon (Savoy) Malcolm Keen, Ronald Shiner, Phyllis Thomas [20pp; VG] £2

1937: BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY - Dorothy L.Sayers/M.St.Clare Byrne (Comedy) Dennis Arundell, Veronica Turleigh, Barrie Livesey, Maurice Denham; dir:Beatrice Wilson [20pp; 2 photos; VVG] £4

1937: THE PHANTOM LIGHT (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Gordon Harker, Iris Vandeleur, Herbert Lomas, Atholl Fleming, Edna Best [8pp; minor marks, else VG] (£2) SOLD

1937: TIME AND THE CONWAYS - J.B.Priestley (Duchess) Jean Forbes-Robertson, Raymond Huntley, Barbara Everest, Mervyn Johns, Helen Horsey, Alexander Archdale, Eileen Erskine, Wilfred Babbage, Molly Rankin, Rosemary Scott, Irene Hentschel [28pp; 11 cast photos and credits; VVG] £5

1937: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU - George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart (St.James's) Hilda Trevelyan, A. P. Kaye, Moya Nugent, Tristan Rawson, Edward Underdown [16pp; 3 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: LOVERS' MEETING (Embassy) Gerald Savory, Barry Jones, Peggy Simpson, Marda Vanne; dir:Margaret Webster [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1937: TAVERN IN THE TOWN (Embassy) Margaret Rutherford, Max Adrian, Esma Cannon, Bernard Lee [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: NIGHT ALONE (Embassy) Richard Bird, Alexander Archdale, Julian Somers, Anna Konstam [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1937: THE FROG - Hay/Wallace (Princes) Jack Hawkins, Gordon Harker, Christine Barry, Herbert Lomas, Percy Parsons, Cyril Smith [24pp; 6 full-page photos; minor marks, centre pages loose, else VG] £4

1937: HEART'S CONTENT (Shaftesbury) Diana Wynyard, Louis Borell, Mary Jerrold, Eileen Peel, Kathryn Hamill, Cyril Raymond, O.B.Clarence, Arthur Macrae, Anthony Bushell; dir:Raymond Massey [16pp; 9 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: BLACK LIMELIGHT (St.James's) Margaret Rawlings, Lawrence Anderson, John Robinson, Ethel Coleridge, George Merritt, Buena Bent, Bernard Merefield, Campbell Gullan [16pp; 8 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: LONDON AFTER DARK (Streatham Hill Theatre) Marion Lorne, Freda Gaye, Robert Andrews, Cathleen Nesbitt, Antoinette Fontana; dir:Walter Hackett [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1188; centre pages loose, minor marks, else VG] £3

1937: AND THE MUSIC STOPPED - Noel Scott (Streatham Hill Theatre) Phyllis Dare, Edmund Willard, Bernard Lee, Ian Fleming; dir:Bernard Nedell [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1156; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: HOUSEMASTER - Ian Hay (Streatham Hill Theatre) Frederick Leister, J.H.Roberts, Hilda Trevelyan, John Ford, P.Kynaston Reeves [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1166; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: I KILLED THE COUNT (Whitehall) Athole Stewart, George Merritt, Hugh E.Wright, Meriel Forbes, Eric Maturin, Kathleen Harrison, Anthony Bushell, Antony Holles, Alec Clunes, Frederick Cooper, Barbara Francis, John Oxford [24pp; 14 photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: YES AND NO - Kenneth Horne (Intimate Theatre) Diana Churchill, Robert Eddison; dir:John Clements [20pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1937: CANDIDA - Shaw, and LOVE AND HOW TO CURE IT - Wilder (Globe) Ann Harding, Nicholas Hannen, Athene Seyler, Wendy Toye, Peter Copley, Stephen Haggard, Edward Chapman; dir:Tyrone Guthrie, Irene Hentschel [20pp; 5 photos; VG] (£4) SOLD

1937 (Mch): HEARTBREAK HOUSE - Shaw (Westminster Theatre) Cecil Trouncer, Mary Grey, Richard Goolden, Alan Napier, Mark Dignam; dir:Michael MacOwan [12pp, 7.25x9.6; VG] £4

1937 (Apr): ANNA CHRISTIE - O'Neill (Westminster Theatre) Flora Robson, Alexander Knox, Mark Dignam, Marie Ault, Philip King, Niall MacGinnis; dir:Michael MacOwan [12pp, 7.25x9.6; VG] £4

1937 (Oct): YOUTH'S THE SEASON....? - Manning (Westminster Theatre) Jean Anderson, Niall MacGinnis; dir:Peter Powell [12pp, 7.25x9.6; VG] £3

1937 (Oct): ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH - Christine Longford (Westminster Theatre) Jean Anderson, Robert Hennessy; dir:Peter Powell [12pp, 7.25x9.6; VG] £3

1937 (Nov): YAHOO - Earl of Longford (Westminster Theatre) Jean Anderson, Noel Iliff, Betty Chancellor; dir:Peter Powell [12pp, 7.25x9.6; light horizontal fold, else VG] £4

1937 (Nov): MOURNING BECOMES ELEKTRA - O'Neill (Westminster Theatre) Beatrix Lehmann, Mark Dignam, Mona Washbourne, Frank Napier, Laura Cowie; dir:Michael MacOwan [12pp, 7.25x9.6; VG] (£4) SOLD

1937: YOUTH'S THE SEASON (Westminster) Jean Anderson, Niall MacGinness, Harry Fine; dir:Peter Powell [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1937: BONNET OVER THE WINDMILL - Dodie Smith (New) James Mason, Cecil Parker, William Douglas Home, Ivy St.Helier [12pp; rumpled, somewhat tatty, minor marks, else VG] £2

1937: ARISTOCRATS - Nicholai Pogodin (Unity Theatre Club) A Unity Theatre Collective Production [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1937 (Feb): INVITATION TO A VOYAGE (L'Invitation au Voyage) - Jean-Jacques Bernard (Gate Studio Theatre) Vivienne Bennett, Andrew Cruickshank, Walter Fitzgerald, Margaret Fry, Robin Maule [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £4

1937 (Apr): LORD ADRIAN - Lord Dunsany (Gate Studio Theatre) Nigel Stock, Hedley Briggs, Jill Furse, Harry Hutchinson [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £4

1937 (Nov): THE UNQUIET SPIRIT - Jean-Jacques Bernard (Gate Studio Theatre) Catherine Lacey, Douglas Burbidge, Wallace Douglas, Stafford Byrne, Reginald Beckwith, Ann Morrison, Peter Scott [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £3

1937 (Dec): DISTANT POINT - A.Afinogenov (Gate Studio Theatre) Walter Fitzgerald, Natalie Moya, Warren Jenkins, George Benson, Clement Hamelin, John Kevan, Josef Shellard, Anthony Compton, Judith Furse; dir:Hubert Griffith [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £4

Plays: 1938

1938: ROOM SERVICE - John Murray and Allen Boretz (Strand) Hartley Power, Sarah Burton, Helen Gillett; dir:William Mendrek [24pp, 5.5x8.5; Magazine Programme; 3 cast photos; VG] £4

1938: THE SUN NEVER SETS - Wallace/Bolton (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Todd Duncan, Adelaide Hall, Stewart Granger, Henry Oscar, Mackenzie Ward, Frank Cochrane, Shelagh Furley, Wally Patch, Charles Farrell; dir:Basil Dean [24pp; music by Cole Porter etc.; 12 cast photos; VVG] £5

1938: WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS - Mills/Ramsay (Holborn Empire) John Lancaster, Italia Conti, Richard Todd [16pp; lovely pictorial cover; VG] (£3) SOLD

1938: GLORIOUS MORNING - MacOwan (Whitehall) Jessica Tandy, Herbert Lomas, Reginald Tate, Kynaston Reeves; dir:Claud Gurney, des:Peter Goffin [16pp; 4 photos, biographies, press comment; very minor edge damage, else VG] £4

1938: I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE - Priestley (Streatham Hill) Lewis Casson, Wilfred Lawson, Eileen Beldon; dir:Lewis Casson [24pp Magazine Programme No.1208; post-West End tour; staples rusty, centre pages loose, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1938: STORY OF AN AMERICAN FARM - Merton Hodge (New) Early Flyer Mary Clare, Curigwen Lewis, Michael Gough, Megs Jenkins; dir:Basil Dean [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1

1938: GOODBYE, MR.CHIPS - James Hilton/Barbara Burnham (Shaftesbury) Leslie Banks, Constance Cummings, Peter Copley, Stuart Burge, Charles Quartermaine, Nigel Stock, Godfrey Kenton, Gillian Lind, Wilfred Babbage, Gerald Campion, Robin Maule; dir:Murray MacDonald [16pp; 2 cast photos; punch holes, light vertical crease, minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: GOODNESS, HOW SAD! - Robert Morley (Vaudeville) Jill Furse, Hugh Sinclair, Mary Merrall, Kathleen Boutall, Judith Furse, Frith Banbury, Arthur Hambling; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [24pp; Magazine Programme No.1244; 7 cast photos; staples rusty, centre pages loose, minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS - Terence Rattigan (Criterion) Mackenzie Ward, Constance Carpenter, Guy Middleton, Trevor Howard, Roland Culver, Hubert Gregg; dir:Harold French [24pp; 3 cast photos; marks, rumpled, else VG] £3

1938: SHE TOO WAS YOUNG - Hilda Vaughan/Laurier Lister (New) Alan Webb, Ann Todd, Marie Ney, Katie Johnson, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy Hyson, Esme Percy [12pp; production photo; minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: GENEVA - G.B.Shaw (Saville) Ernest Thesiger, Cecil Trouncer, Walter Hudd, Alison Legatt, Alexander Knox [20pp; 5 excellent character photos; 2-page production note by Shaw w.photo; very minor marks, else excellent] £5

1938: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - Baroness Orczy/Montague Barstow (Embassy) Derrick De Marney, Dorothy Dickson, Esme Percy, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Joe Mitchenson [as "Mitchelson"]; dir:Basil Dean [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: GOLDEN BOY - Clifford Odets (St.James's) Luther Adler, Lillian Emerson, Lee J. Cobb; dir:Harold Clurman, sets:Mordecai Gorelik [20pp; 3 photos; note on 'The Group Theatre of New York'; remains of seal-sticker on cover, minor marks, else VVG] £4

1938: BABES IN THE WOOD - James Bridie (Embassy) Angela Baddeley, Alexander Knox, Louise Hampton, Ellen Pollock, Richard Caldicot; dir:Dennis Arundell [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1938: ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA - Katriona & Elizabeth Sprigge (Garrick) Wanda Rotha, Gyles Isham, Richard Ainley, David King-Wood, Charles Hickman; dir:Campbell Gullan [16pp; 2 photos; vertical fold, else VG] £3

1938: TEA FOR TWO - Gilbert Wakefield (Comedy) Elsie Randolph, Hugh Wakefield, Henry Kendall, Geoffrey Sumner, Margery Morris, Leon Von Pokorny; dir:Richard Bird [24pp; 7 photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: GAILY WE SET OUT - G.Sheila Donisthorpe (King's Theatre, Hammersmith) Olga Lindo, Wilson Barrett, Esma Cannon, Freda Jackson; dir:Jevan Brandon-Thomas [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1938: THE ZEAL OF THY HOUSE - Dorothy L.Sayers (Westminster) Harcourt Williams, Marie Ney, Frank Napier, Alan Napier, Michael Gough, Donald Eccles, Mark Dignam, Michael Gough [12pp, 7.25x9.7; production note by D.L.Sayers; minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: LAND'S END - F.L.Lucas (Westminster) Mary Macowan, Cathleen Nesbitt, Alan Napier, Cecil Trouncer; dir:Michael Macowan [12pp, 7.25x9.7; minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: DANGEROUS CORNER - J.B.Priestley (Westminster) Robert Harris, Ruth Lodge, Stephen Murray, Michael Dennison, Catherine Lacey, Winifred Hindle, Lesley Brook [12pp, 7.25x9.7; cast biographies; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £4

1938: MARCO MILLIONS - Eugene O'Neill (Westminster) Griffith Jones, Stephen Murray, Max Adrian, Robert Harris, Michael Denison, Catherine Lacey, George Howe, Vera Hodson, Mario Francelli, George Woodbridge [16pp, 7.25x9.7; staples rusted out, rumpled, marks, else VG] £3

1938: BUSMEN - Living Newspaper No.1 (Unity Theatre Club) The Workers Theatre [4pp, 7.25x9.7; fascinating early social docu-drama, about the 1937 Bus Strike; 3 horizontal folds, minor marks, else VG] £2

1938 (Apr): THE MASQUE OF KINGS - Maxwell Anderson (Gate Studio Theatre) Eric Portman, Jill Furse, Richard Warner, Ruth Taylor, Milton Rosmer, Michael Morice [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £3

1938 (Nov): THE HEART WAS NOT BURNED - James Laver (Gate Studio Theatre) James Mason (as Byron), Pamela Brown (as Mrs.Keats), Douglas Storm, Christine Lindsay, Maurice Denham, Harold Scott, Peter Scott, Peter Coke; settings by Edward Wolfe [4pp, 7x11; rumpled, edge repair, minor marks; uncommon] £2

Plays: 1939

1939: SPOTTED DICK - Travers (Strand) Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton [16pp; photo; Magazine Programme No.1290; VG] (£2) SOLD

1939 (Dec): MAJOR BARBARA - Shaw (Westminster Theatre) Early Flyer for this production of The London Mask Theatre, w.Robert Harris, Milton Rosmer, Jean Cadell, Catherine Lacey, Stephen Murray, Mark Dignam, Michael Denison; dir:John Fernald [4pp; slight fold, minor edge damage, else VG; unusual] £3

1939: THE MOTHER - Capek (Garrick) Louise Hampton, Nigel Stock; dir:Miles Malleson [16pp; photo of Louise Hampton; VG] £3

1939: GROUSE IN JUNE - N.C.Hunter (Criterion) Arthur Hambling, Constance Lorne, Richard Goolden, Hugh McDermott, Billie Ryan, Winifred Willard, Robert Beatty [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1939: SALOON BAR - Frank Harvey Jnr. (Wyndham's) Gordon Harker, Anna Konstam, Mervyn Johns, Margaret Johnston, Leueen MacGrath, Peggy Livesey; dir:Richard Bird [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1939: CALL IT A DAY - Dodie Smith (Embassy) Percy Marmont, Irene Arnold, Marjorie Stewart, Denis Carew; dir:Peter Dearing [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1939: THEATRE ROYAL - Edna Ferber/George S. Kaufman (King's Theatre, Hammersmith) Peggy Wood, Gyles Isham, Enid Sass, Esmond Knight, Ruth Goddard; dir:Charles Hickman [16pp; w.photo; punch holes, rusty staples, minor marks, else VG] £3

1939: HOME CHAT - Noel Coward, and BARBARA'S WEDDING - J.M.Barrie (King's Theatre, Hammersmith) Enid Sass, Wilson Barrett, Brian Oulton, Phoebe Kershaw, Joan Lang, Ruth Goddard, Cicely Paget Bowman, Neil Crawford, Owen Reynolds [16pp; photo and biography of Enid Sass; punch holes, rusty staples, minor marks, else VG] £3

1939: YOUNG ENGLAND - Walter Reynolds (Holborn Empire) Phyllis Relph, George Cormack, Violet Dix, Percy Cahill, Alan Bourne-Webb, Barbara Savage, Marguerite Leigh, John Oxford, Daphne Odin-Pearse, Walter Wade, Heron Carvic, Edward Rutherfoord, Doris Fraser [4pp; fold, magic-tape repair, minor damage, else VG] (£2) SOLD

1939: THEY WALK ALONE - Catto (Shaftesbury) Beatrix Lehmann, Jimmy Hanley, Rene Ray, Carol Goodner; dir:Berthold Viertel, organ music by Benjamin Britten [24pp; 8 photos; VG] (£4) SOLD

1939: TONIGHT AT 8.30 - Coward (New Cross Empire) The Court Players: Grace Poole, Lockwood West; dir:Eric Howard [4pp, 7.3x9.7; VG] (£3) SOLD

1939: THE AMAZING DR.CLITTERHOUSE - Lyndon (New Cross Empire) The Court Players: Edward Waddy, Grace Poole, Myles Eason; dir:Eric Howard [4pp, 7.3x9.7; VG] £3

1939 (Apr): OF MICE AND MEN - John Steinbeck (Gate Studio Theatre) John Mills, Niall MacGinnis, Claire Luce [4pp, 7x11; VG; uncommon] £4

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