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OTHER PLAYS: 1940-1949
Plays: 1940
1940 (Jan): DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS - O'Neill (Westminster Theatre) Flyer for the British Premiere by The London Mask Theatre, w.Stephen Murray, Beatrix Lehmann, Mark Dignam; dir:Henry Cass [4pp; light fold, minor edge damage, else VG; unusual] £3
1940: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS - O'Neill (Westminster Theatre) British Premiere by The London Mask Theatre, w.Stephen Murray, Beatrix Lehmann, Mark Dignam; dir:Henry Cass [12pp; VG] £4
1940: A LADY REFLECTS - Louis Verneuil/Georges Berr (Embassy) Hugh Sinclair, Athole Stewart, Valerie Taylor, Grizelda Hervey, Irene Browne, W. Hyde White; dir:Gwen Farrar [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3
1940: DOWN OUR STREET - Ernest George (Tavistock Little Theatre) The People's Theatre Season: Nancy Price, Ronald Shiner, A.Bromley Davenport, Sydney Fairbrother, Peter Glenville [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1940 (Jun): BOYS IN BROWN - Reginald Beckwith (Gate Theatre Studio) Jon Waller, Peter Folliss, Ronald Standish, John Carol, Tony Halfpenny, Cyril Wheeler, Kenneth Griffiths, Derek Blomfield, Victor Raymond, Michael Morice, Robin Maule, Philip Fox, Julian Somers, Cecil Winter, Jordan Lawrence, Arthur Ridley; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp, 7x11; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; directions to Air Raid shelters; creased, rumpled, else VG; Borstal Institution play - uncommon] £4
Plays: 1941
1941: JUPITER LAUGHS - Cronin (New) James Mason; dir:Mason [8pp, 5.5x4.25; VG] £2
1941: QUIET WEEK-END - Esther McCracken (Wyndham's) Glynis Johns, Marjorie Fielding, Frank Cellier [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £3
1941: ON APPROVAL - Frederick Lonsdale (Royal Court, Liverpool) Diana Churchill, Cathleen Nesbitt, Barry K.Barnes, Roland Culver; dir:Irene Hentschel [12pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, theatre information, Air Raid Precautions; slightly rumpled, else VG; a wartime survivor!] £4
Plays: 1942
1942: THE PETRIFIED FOREST - Robert Emmett Sherwood (Globe Theatre) Robert Beatty, Gwyn Nichols, Miki Iveria, Constance Cummings, Owen Nares, Earl Cameron, Harry Ross, Raymond Mander, Hartley Power; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp, 5x7.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; slightly grubby and rumpled, else VG] £2
1942: BLITHE SPIRIT - Coward (Piccadilly) Fay Compton, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker, Margaret Rutherford; dir:Noel Coward [8pp; 5x3.75; creased, else VG] £2
1942: WHY NOT TONIGHT? - Stafford Dickens (Ambassador's) Tom Walls, Katharine Morley, Stafford Dickens [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1942: NIGHT OF THE GARTER (Strand) Sydney Howard, Rene Ray, Jack Melford, Muriel George, Joan Shannon, Neal Arden, Max Kirby, Marjorie Brooks, Anthony Bazell; dir:Leslie Henson & Austin Melford [6pp, 3.25x8 triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £3
1942: THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Savoy) Robert Morley, Coral Browne, Viola Lyel, Jerry Verno, Cameron Hall, Edie Martin; dir:Marcel Varnel [4pp; minor marks, rumpled, else VG] £2
Plays: 1943
1943: PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX - Roland Pertwee (Duke of York's) Dorothy Hyson, Philip Friend, Iris Hoey, David Horne; dir William Armstong [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £3
1943 (Oct): HOLY ISLE - James Bridie (Glasgow Citizens Theatre) Philip Desborough, Antony Baird, Nicholas Parsons, Geoffrey Edwards, Walter Roy, Duncan Macrae, Yvonne Coulette, Lesley Lindsay, Anna Burden, Denis Carey, James Anderson, Michael Martin-Harvey, Betty Dixon; dir:Jennifer Sounes, decor:Riette Sturge Moore [4pp, 4.25x5.75, stiff card programme; minor marks, else VG; remarkable survivor] £4
1943: THE MORNING STAR - Emlyn Williams (Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff) Emlyn Williams, Elliot Mason, Dorothy Baird, Edward Petley, Roddy Hughes, Betty Ann Davies, Kynaston Reeves, Gladys Henson; dir:Emlyn Williams [4pp, 4.5x7.7; cast list, synopsis of scenes, prices of admission, Air Raid Warning, credits, forthcoming attractions etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG; another wartime survivor] £3
1943 (6 Dec): DISTANT POINT - Afinogenev (Glasgow Citizens Theatre) Albert Chevalier, Cecil Brock, Anna Burden, Duncan Macrae, Denis Carey, Dennis Bloomfield, Antony Baird, Morland Graham, Una Dysart, Yvonne Coulette, Nan Scott; dir:Eric Capon [4pp, 4x6.5, stiff card programme; minor marks, else VG; remarkable survivor] £3
1943 (27 Dec): NOAH - Obey (Glasgow Citizens Theatre) Morland Graham, Elspeth Cochrane, Cecil Brock, Denis Carey, Kenneth Miles, Yvonne Coulette, Lesley Lindsay, Betty Dixon, Duncan Macrae, Antony Baird, Audrey Scarle, Dennis Bloomfield, Robert Moffat, James McAllister, Tom Kelly; dir:Eric Capon [4pp, 4x6.5, stiff card programme; w.4pp 7x9 folded 'Glasgow Citz' newsletter; minor marks, else VG; remarkable survivor] £4
1943: THE PETRIFIED FOREST - Sherwood (Opera House, Manchester) Constance Cummings, Owen Nares; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp; 5.5x8.5; flimsy and a bit battered - but a survivor!] £3
Plays: 1944
1944: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Strand) Lilian Braithwaite, Mary Jerrold, Naunton Wayne, Frank Pettingell, Edmund Willard; c:Marcel Varnel [6pp, 3.25x8; minor marks, else VG] £3
1944 (17 Jan): LILIOM - Ferencz Molnar (Glasgow Citizens Theatre) Jay Laurier, Molly Spencer, Betty Dixon, Denis Carey, Duncan Macrae, Vivian Milton, Sam Hankin, Denis Carey, Lesley Lindsay; dir:Eric Capon [4pp, 4x6.5, stiff card programme; minor marks, else VG; the play on which 'Carousel' was based; remarkable wartime survivor] £4
1944 (31 Jan): IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? - Lennox Robinson (Glasgow Citizens Theatre) Betty Dixon, Lesley Lindsay, Molly Spencer, Cecil Brock, Denis Carey, Yvonne Coulette, Duncan Macrae, Mary S.Urquhart, W. Levack Ritchie, Michael Warre, Antony Baird, Dennis Bloomfield, James Beirne; dir:Eric Capon [4pp, 4x6.5, stiff card programme; minor marks, else VG; remarkable wartime survivor] £4
1944: THE LAST OF MRS.CHEYNEY - Frederick Lonsdale (Savoy) Coral Browne, Jack Buchanan, James Dale, Frances Rowe, Anne Firth, Anthony Shaw, Athene Seyler, Madge Compton, Austin Trevor, Margaret Scudamore; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp, 5x7.5; excellent cover photograph of Browne and Buchanan; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £5
1944: MR.BOLFRY - James Bridie (CEMA Tour) Denis Carey, Yvonne Coulette, Duncan Macrae, Mary S.Urquhart, Lucille Steve, Gordon Davies; dir:Eric Capon [4pp, 5x8; minor marks, else VG] £3
Plays: 1945
1945: THE ASSASSIN - Irwin Shaw (Savoy) Henry Oscar, Claud Bonser, Guy Verney, Rona Laurie, Barry Morse, J.H.Roberts, Julian Somers; dir:Marcel Varnel [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1945: CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY - Julius J. and Philip G.Epstein (Savoy) Winifred Willard, Angela Baddeley, Brian Parker, Alison Leggatt; dir:Austin Melford [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1945: SEE HOW THEY RUN (Comedy) Ronald Simpson, Beryl Mason, Joan Hickson, Joan Sanderson, George Bishop; dir:Henry Kendall [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: IS YOUR HONEYMOON REALLY NECESSARY? (Duke of York's) Ralph Lynn, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Faith Rogers, Vernon Kelso; dir:Ralph Lynn [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: NO MEDALS (Vaudeville) Fay Compton, Frederick Leister, Thora Hird [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: THE SHOP AT SLY CORNER (St.Martin's) Victoria Hopper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Keneth Kent, Kenneth Griffith, Joyce Heron, Ada Reeve, Deryck Guyler [8pp, 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: LAURA - Caspary/Sklar (St.Martin's) Sonia Dresdel, Robert Beatty, Maxwell Foster [8pp, 5x3.75; VG] £1
1945: THE YEARS BETWEEN - Du Maurier (Wyndham's) Clive Brook, Nora Swinburne, Ronald Ward, John Gilpin; dir:Irene Hentschel [8pp, small size; small edge bite, else VG] £1
1945: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN - Ginsbury (Savoy) Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp; rumpled] £2
1945: LADY FROM EDINBURGH - Aimee Stuart/L.Arthur Rose (Playhouse) Sophie Stewart, Henry Hewitt, Enid Sass, Dulcie Gray, Roy Dean, Alan Haines, Ethel Coleridge, Richard Bird [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: LADY FROM EDINBURGH - Aimee Stuart/L.Arthur Rose (King's Theatre, Glasgow) Sophie Stewart, Henry Hewitt, Enid Sass, Dulcie Gray, Roy Dean, Alan Haines, Ethel Coleridge, Richard Bird [4pp, flimsy; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: TOMORROW THE WORLD - James Gow/Arnaud d'Usseau (Aldwych) Jean Cadell, Robert Harris, Elizabeth Allan, David O'Brien [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945: THE HASTY HEART - Patrick (Aldwych) Nicholas Parsons, Margaretta Scott, Emrys Jones [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1945: MADAME LOUISE - Vernon Sylvaine (Garrick) Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Constance Lorne [6pp, 3.25x8 triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £2
1945 (Feb): QUALITY STREET - J.M.Barrie (Embassy) Jean Forbes-Robertson, Ursula Howells, Geoffrey Toone, Bryan Forbes, June Hallward, Gwendoline Watford; dir:Anthony Hawtrey [6pp, 3.4x8 triple-fold; minor marks, date on cover, else VG] £3
1945 (Jul): NO ROOM AT THE INN - Joan Temple (Embassy) Ursula Howells, John Potter, Mary Kimber, Ruth Dunning, Tony Quinn, Freda Jackson, Christopher Steele; dir:Anthony Hawtrey [6pp, 3.4x8 triple-fold; minor marks, date on cover, else VG] £3
1945 (Sep): FIT FOR HEROES - Harold Brooke/Kay Bannerman (Embassy) Irene Vanbrugh, Helen Cherry, Jack Allen, Raymond Lovell, Olaf Pooley; dir:Henry Kendall [6pp, 3.4x8 triple-fold; minor marks, date on cover, else VG] £3
1945 (Oct): ZOO IN SILESIA - Richard Pollock (Embassy) Hugh Williams, Danny Green, Lionel Blair, Noel Johnson, Reginald Purdell, Olaf Pooley, Frederick Schiller, Roger Keyes, Guy Rolfe; dir:Wallace Douglas [6pp, 3.4x8 triple-fold; minor marks, date on cover, else VG] £3
1945: FIT FOR HEROES - Harold Brooke/Kay Bannerman (Garrick) Irene Vanbrugh, Lois Maxwell, Humphrey Morton, Raymond Lovell, Olaf Pooley; dir:Henry Kendall, Stage Manager:June Whitfield [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £4
1945: TREASURE ISLAND - Robert Louis Stevenson / J.B.Fagan (Granville Theatre, Fulham Broadway) Tony Quinn, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Barrie Livesey, Hylton Allen, Tristan Rawson, Margot Lister, Hugh Pryse; dir:John Hanau [4pp, flimsy; minor marks, else VG] £3
Plays: 1946
1946: PICK-UP GIRL - Elsa Shelley (Theatre Royal, Birmingham) Macdonald Parke, Jean St.Clair, Ruby Head, Howard Lamb, Edward Laurie, Joan Matheson, Irving Stein, Miki Iveria, George Pughe, Lionel Murton, Peter Wyngarde, Doreen Hughes, Leslie Hazell, Gwyn Lloyd Jones, Edmund Bailey, Doreen Percheron, Frederick Bartman, Lyn Wallace, Joanna Baker; dir:Peter Cotes [8pp, 4.6x7.4; rusty staple, else VG] £3
1946: THE KINGMAKER - Margaret Luce (Theatre Royal, Birmingham)
Russell Napier, Brian Hayes, John Harvey, John Clements, Robert Eddison, Charles Lloyd Pack, Howieson Culff, Graham Stuart, James Mills, Keith Pyott, David Bird, Laurence Goodwin, Irene Vanbrugh, Rosemary Davis, John Gatrell, Kay Hammond, David Peel, Honor Shepherd, Frances Rowe, Alwyne Whatsley, Moira Lister, Mary Stone, Robert Del Kyrke, Gerald Vane, Dennis Fraser; dir:John Clements [8pp, 4.6x7.4; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; staple rusted away, else VG] £3
1946: OUR TOWN - Thornton Wilder (Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
Brian Oulton, Dennis Vaughan, Geoffrey Heaton, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Elspeth Duxbury, Edward Horton, Norman Tyrrell, Toke Townley, Jean Kendall, Paul Eddington, Jennifer Maddox, Colin Jeavons, Hubert Mitchell, John Phillips, Lysbeth Harley, William Morgan, Averil Cond, Nicholas Bruce, Mabel France, Alan MacNaughtan, Geoffrey Lewis, Malcolm Mortimer, Michael Forman, Monica Stutfield, Meric Dobson, Angela Brooking, Mary Yeomans, Betty Robinson, Jean Whitty, Joy Newgass, Elsie Biggs, Peggy Gibbons, Alice Hannam; dir:William Armstrong [4pp, 4.5x8.5; light horizontal creases, else VG] £3
1946: WHILE THE SUN SHINES - Terence Rattigan (Globe) Douglas Jefferies, Hubert Gregg, Bonar Colleano, Jr., Muriel Pavlow, Hugh Wakefield, Frith Banbury, Brenda Bruce; dir:Anthony Asquith [8pp, 4.75x7.25; The cost of teas in this theatre remains at the pre-war price of 1/-; writing on cover, rusty staple, else VG] £3
1946: ROPE - Patrick Hamilton (Sparrow's Nest Theatre, Lowestoft) Lowestoft Repertory Company: John Fitzgerald, Michael Allinson, Godfrey Lloyd, Alan Broadhurst, William Besant, Joyce Barnett, Thomas Morley, Kathleen Gerrard; dir:John Fitzgerald [16pp, 5x8; cast list, notes, credits; vertical bend, else VG] £4
1946: FIFTY-FIFTY (Strand) Harry Green, David Langton, Frank Petingell [4pp; VG] £1
1946: LADY FREDERICK - Somerset Maugham (Savoy) Coral Browne [8pp; photographic cover; rumpled, ink marks] £2
1946: LADY FREDERICK - Somerset Maugham (Savoy) Coral Browne, Phyllis Dare, Anthony Ireland [8pp, 5x7.25; VG] £2
1946: THE POLTERGEIST - Frank Harvey (Vaudeville) Olga Lindo, Lloyd Pearson, Austin Trevor, Gordon Harker [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: FRIEDA - Ronald Millar (Westminster) Valerie White, Barbara Everest, Ursula Howells, Richard Warner, Jack Allen; dir:Irene Hentschel [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: DEAR MURDERER - St.John L.Clowes (Aldwych) Michael Hordern, Terence de Marney, Rosalyn Boulter, Barrie Livesey [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: OUR BETTERS - Somerset Maugham (Playhouse) Dorothy Dickson, Lois Maxwell, Max Adrian, Cathleen Nesbitt; dir:Jack Minster, decor:Cecil Beaton [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £3
1946: FOOLS RUSH IN - Kenneth Horne (Fortune) Glynis Johns, Derek Farr, Bernard Lee, Joyce Barbour, Jessica Spencer [4pp; minor marks, edge bite, else VG] £1
1946: BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD - Lonsdale (St.James's) Mary Jerrold, Andrew Leigh, Anthony Forwood, A.E.Matthews, Hugh McDermott, Cyril Smith, Michael Gough [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1946: CLUTTERBUCK - Levey (Wyndham's) Constance Cummings [8pp] £2
1946: THE WINSLOW BOY - Rattigan (Lyric) Emlyn Williams, Frank Cellier, Angela Baddeley; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1946: DEATH OF A RAT - Hartog (Lyric) Alastair Sim, Pamela Brown, Robert Harris [4pp] £2
1946: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN - Ginsbury (Savoy) Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp] £2
1946: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN - Ginsbury (Savoy) Robert Morley, Joan Hopkins; dir:Norman Marshall [8pp, tatty] £2
1946: THE KINGMAKER - Luce (St.James's) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison, Irene Vanbrugh [4pp; w.family tree insert] £2
1946: GRAND NATIONAL NIGHT - Dorothy & Campbell Christie (Apollo) Leslie Banks, Hermione Baddeley [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: NO MEDALS - Esther McCracken (Theatre Royal, Newcastle) Ian Fleming, Patsy Smart, Mary Loraine [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1
1946: THE GUINEA-PIG - Strode (Criterion) Cecil Trouncer, Rachel Gurney, Robert Flemyng, Denholm Elliott, Derek Blomfield, William Mervyn, Joan Hickson; dir:Jack Minster [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3
1946: MADAME LOUISE - Vernon Sylvaine (Garrick) Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Constance Lorne [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: ARTS & CRAFT - Denys Wurtzburg (Gateway Theatre Club) Peter Howell, Gillian Howell, Tom Cornish, Maureen O'Moor [4pp; minor marks, edges repaired w.tape, else VG] £1
1946: THE SILENT JACKDAW - Alasdair Grant (Gateway Theatre Club) Winifred Elton, Iris Lauder, Olave March, Tom Cornish [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1
1946: WHITE-HEADED BOY - Lennox Robinson (Granville Theatre, Fulham Broadway) The Irish Players: Dorothy Casey, Michael Dunn, Richard Leech, Wilfrid Brambell [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: THE NINETEENTH HOLE OF EUROPE - Vivian Connell (Granville Theatre, Fulham Broadway) Andrew Cruickshank, Peggy Livesey, Eileen Thorndike, Lawrence Hanray, Arthur Lovegrove, Hilary Russell, Gerard Kempinski, Ellen Pollock; dir:John Hanau, decor:Joan Jefferson Farjeon [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
Plays: 1947
1947: BORN YESTERDAY (Garrick) Yolande Donlan, William Kemp, Hartley Power, Bessie Love, Michael Balfour; dir:Laurence Olivier [4pp; minor edge damage, else VG] £3
1947: OFF THE RECORD (Piccadilly) Jack Allen, Philippa Hyatt, Bill Gates, Hugh Wakefield, Roger Maxwell [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: FIFTY-FIFTY (Strand) Harry Green, David Langton, Frank Petingell [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1
1947: SHE WANTED A CREAM FRONT DOOR (Apollo) Robertson Hare, Peter Haddon, Ian Carmichael [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: DR.ANGELUS - Bridie (Phoenix) Alastair Sim, Betty Marsden, George Cole [4pp] £2
1947: THE GLEAM - Strode (Globe) Honor Blackman [8pp] £2
1947: MEN WITHOUT SHADOWS and THE RESPECTABLE PROSTITUTE - Sartre (Lyric, Hammersmith) Aubrey Woods, Mary Morris, Sidney James, Hugh Griffith; dir:Peter Brook [4pp; VG] £3
1947: PRESENT LAUGHTER - Coward (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Noel Coward, Joyce Carey, Robert Eddison; dir:Noel Coward [4pp; hoizontal crease, else VG] £2
1947: LIFE WITH FATHER - Day/Lindsay/Crouse (Savoy) Leslie Banks, Sophie Stewart [8pp; photographic cover] £2
1947: THE MAN FROM THE MINISTRY - Bingham (Comedy) Charles Lefeaux, Gwen Nelson [8pp] £1
1947: HAPPY AS LARRY - MacDonagh (Criterion) Mercury Theatre production, w.Michael Gwynn, Liam Redmond, Anna Burden, Wilfred Brambell; dir:Denis Carey [8pp; with Irish Glossary; VG] £2
1947: WHERE THERE'S A WILL (Gateway Theatre Club) Barbara Trevor, Edna Carlingford, Don Sinclair, Kendrew Milson, Phyllis Rimmer, Joyce Gregg, Edward Chaffers, Robert Grayson, Wilson Featherston [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1
1947: THE EAGLE HAS TWO HEADS - Jean Cocteau (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Eileen Herlie, James Donald, Cicely Paget-Bowman, Raymond Jaquarello [4pp; anthem composed by Benjamin Britten; minor marks, else VG] £3
1947: THE MAN IN THE STREET (St.James's) Bobby Howes, Edward Jewesbury, Desmond Keith, Kynaston Reeves, Charles Lloyd Pack, Deering Wells; dir:Basil Dean [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE - Ben Travers (Winter Garden) Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Enid Lowe, Joan Lang; dir:Charles Hickman [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: NO ROOM AT THE INN (Theatre Royal, Birmingham) Freda Jackson, Gwendoline Watford, Tony Quinn, Christopher Steele [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: EDWARD MY SON (Lyric) Robert Morley, Pauline Letts, Richard Caldicot, James Cairncross [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS (Vaudeville) A.E.Matthews, Marjorie Fielding, Michael Shepley [8pp; minor marks, light folds, else VG] £3
1947: ARMLET OF JADE (Gate Theatre, Dubin) Ian Bannen (as "Paul" Bannen - his stage debut), John Welsh, Milo O'Shea, Maurice O'Brien; dir:John Izon [4pp; minor marks, slightly creased, else VG] £2
1947: THE LAKE OF THE SWANS - Janet Leatham and Vladimir Czernikoff (Boltons Theatre Club) Peter Madren (as Tchaikovsky), Stanley Beard (as Rubinstein), Anna Korda (as Antonina), Gwynne Whitby (as Baroness Von Meck), Frances Clare (as Mme.Rimsky-Korsakov), Anthony Marlowe (as Rimsky); dir:John Wyse [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £3
1947: NOW BARABBAS ... - William Douglas Home (Boltons Theatre Club) Stanley Beard, Owen Holder, Julian Somers, Harry Quashie, Percy Walsh, Tristan Rawson, Antony Marlowe, Jill Bennett, Basil Gordon, Peter Doughty; dir:Colin Chandler [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: KING OF ROME (Boltons Theatre Club) George Skillan, John Wyse, Marie Ney, Arnold English, Peter Reynolds, Helen Haye; dir:John Wyse [12pp; minor marks, somewhat tatty] £2
1947: MIRANDA (Embassy) Nora Swinburne, Ronald Ward, Diane Hart; dir:Richard Bird [6pp triple-fold, 3.4x8; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: APRIL PLAYS THE FOOL (Granville, Waltham Green) Francis Hampton, Olive Sloane, Michael Gardiner, Hilda Campbell Russell, Peter Bryant, Michael Voysey; dir:Robert Henderson [8pp; minor marks, rumpled, else VG] £1
1947: IN THE BEGINNING and VILLAGE WOOING (New Lindsay Theatre Club) Ann Gee, Michael Duffield, Antony Kearey, Josephine Fraser, Lucielle Gray, Victor Adams; dir:Peter Cotes [4pp, 5.5x8.5; minor marks, horizontal fold, else VG] £2
Plays: 1948
1948: MISS MABEL - R.C.Sherriff (Duchess) Mary Jerrold, Richard Warner, Clive Morton, Peter Murray; dirNorman Marshall [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1948: COCKPIT - Boland (Playhouse) Joseph O'Conor, Dudley Jones, Eileen Way; dir:Michael MacOwan [8pp; slight edge damage, else VG] £2
1948: ONE WILD OAT (Garrick) Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Constance Lorne, Horace Sequeira; dir:Richard Bird [6pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1948: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (St.James's) Nicholas Hannen, Charles Lloyd Pack, Andre Morell, Hector Ross, Elizabeth Allan [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1948: PRESENT LAUGHTER - Coward (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Hugh Sinclair, Joan Swinstead, Avis Scott, Daphne Newton, Joyce Carey, Moira Lister; dir:Noel Coward [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1948: OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE - Ben Travers (Winter Garden) Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Enid Lowe, Joan Lang, Rona Laurie; dir:Charles Hickman [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1948: THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Tennessee Williams (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Helen Hayes, Frances Heflin; dir:John Gielgud [4pp; vertical crease, else VG] £2
1948: A MAN MUST DIE - Douglas (St.Martin's) Teresa Moore [8pp] £1
1948: THE GIOCONDA SMILE - Huxley (New) Pamela Brown, Clive Brook [8pp] £2
1948: WRITTEN FOR A LADY - Leo Marks (Garrick) Margaretta Scott, Clifford Mollison, Barbara Hicks, Barry Morse [6pp] £1
1948: DR.ANGELUS - Bridie (Phoenix) Alastair Sim, Betty Marsden, George Cole [4pp] £2
1948: PLAYBILL: The Browning Version and A Harlequinade - Rattigan (Phoenix) Eric Portman, Mary Ellis, Marie Lohr [4pp] £2
1948: LITTLE LAMBS EAT IVY - Langley (Ambassadors) Lionel Murton [8pp] £1
1948: THE INDIFFERENT SHEPHERD - Ustinov (Criterion) Gladys Cooper, Andrew Cruickshank [8pp] £2
1948: HAPPY WITH EITHER - Margaret Kennedy (St.James's) Angela Baddeley, Constance Cummings, Wilfred Hyde White, Adrienne Corri [8pp; 5 photos] £2
1948: MUSICAL CHAIRS - Mackenzie (Playhouse) Richard Bird, Gabrielle Brune [8pp; tatty] £1
1948: DON'T LISTEN, LADIES! - Powys/Bolton/Guitry (St.James's) Constance Cummings, Denholm Elliott [4pp] £1
1948: THE MALE ANIMAL - Thurber/Nugent (New) Arthur Hill, Newton Blick; dir:Roy Rich [8pp; tatty] £1
1948: EDEN END - J.B.Priestley (Duchess) Angela Baddeley, Nicholas Hannen [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3
1948: RAIN ON THE JUST - Peter Watling (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Marie Ney, Eileen Peel, Michael Denison, Geoffrey Keen, Dulcie Gray, Edgar Norfolk [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3
1948: AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY - W.Douglas Home (Opera House, Manchester) Jane Baxter, Raymond Lovell, Jacques Berthier [8pp; plus 3 newsclippings; rumpled] £3
Plays: 1949
1949: UNCLE CHARLEY - Georgina Penny (People's Palace Theatre, Mile End Road)
Harry Welchman, Grace Poole, Betty Hale, Patrick Jordan, Alice Bowes, Diana Hely-Hutchinson, Frank Simmons, George Bailey, Peggy Caldicott, Pamela Lawrence, Peter Swanwick, dir:Douglas Freear [8pp, 5x7.5; cast, synopsis of scenes, credits; VG] £4
1949: CASTLE IN THE AIR - Alan Melville (Wimbledon Theatre) Coral Browne, Jack Buchanan, Irene Manning, William Kendall, Ewan Roberts; dir:Roy Rich [8pp; cast, credits, synopsis of scenes etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD
1949: THE THIRD VISITOR (Duke of York's) Sonia Dresdel, Anthony Marlowe; dir:Ellen Pollock [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: QUEEN ELIZABETH SLEPT HERE - Talbot Rothwell (Strand) Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Kenneth Connor, Winifred Melville [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: THE PERFECT WOMAN (Playhouse) Sonnie Hale, Charles Heslop, Ellen Pollock; dir:J.H.Roberts [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET (Prince's) Pat Nye, Bill Shine, Shirley Richards, Allen Bourne Webb, Alan Gordon, Anne Crawford, Richard Baldwyn; dir:Judith Furse [4pp, 5.25x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £3
1949: THE YOUNG AND FAIR - Nash (St.Martin's) Marie Ney, Jane Baxter [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: SUMMER DAY'S DREAM - Priestley (St.Martin's) Herbert Lomas, John Westbrook, Adrienne Corri [12pp] £2
1949: TRAVELLER'S JOY - Macrae (Criterion) Dora Bryan, Yvonne Arnaud [8pp] £2
1949: THE GIOCONDA SMILE - Huxley (Wyndham's) Clive Brook [8pp] £2
1949: THE POLTERGEIST - Harvey (Vaudeville) Olga Lindo [8pp] £1
1949: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE - Carroll (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Donald Pleasence, Patricia Driscoll, John Neville, Eric Porter; dir:Langham [8pp] £3
1949: TRESPASS - Williams (Apollo) Emlyn Williams [4pp] £1
1949: THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS - W.Douglas Home (Vaudeville) A.E.Matthews [8pp] £2
1949: A WOMAN'S PLACE - Grimwood (Vaudeville) Kathleen Harrison, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan [8pp] £2
1949: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS - Rattigan (Vaudeville) Robert Flemyng, Clive Morton, Moira Lister [12pp, slightly rumpled] £2
1949: ON MONDAY NEXT... - King (Comedy) Henry Kendall, Olga Lindo, Leslie Phillips, Richard Goolden [8pp] £2
1949: BEFORE THE PARTY - Rodney Ackland (St.Martin's) Constance Cummings [12pp] £2
1949: THE LATE EDWINA BLACK - Dinner/Morum (Ambassadors) Catherine Lacey, Stephen Murray [12pp] £2
1949: HARVEY - Chase (Prince of Wales) Sid Field, Athene Seyler, Violet Farebrother; dir:Anthony Quayle [8pp, w.photographic cover; VG] £4
1949: THE UNQUIET SPIRIT Jean-Jacques Bernard (Arts Theatre Club) Margaret Rawlings, William Mervyn, Richard Wordsworth; dir:John Fernald [12pp, 6x4.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: YOUNG WIVES' TALE (Savoy) Joan Greenwood, Naunton Wayne, Derek Farr, Joan Haythorne [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: WILDERNESS OF MONKEYS - Peter Watling (Embassy) Bristol Old Vic Company: Sonia Williams, Nigel Stock, Leslie Sands, Paul Rogers; dir:Allan Davis [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £3
1949: ANN VERONICA (Opera House, Manchester) Wendy Hiller, Cyril Ritchard, Robert Harris, Deering Wells, George Hayes, Elizabeth Thorndike, John Woodnutt, Richard Wordsworth; dir:Peter Ashmore [8pp; flimsy, minor marks, else VG] £3
1949 (9 May): IT'S HARD TO BE A JEW - Sholem Aleichem (Embassy) AVIV Jewish Theatre Group: Theodore M.Bikel, Miriam Karlin; dir:Avraham Asseo [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1949: BLACK CHIFFON - Storm (Westminster) Flora Robson [4pp; crease, else VG] £1
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