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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: THE LIGHT OF HEART - Emlyn Williams (Apollo) Godfrey Tearle, Angela Baddeley, Megs Jenkins, Anthony Ireland [16pp; 4 excellent photo portraits; minor marks, else VG] £4
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: THE ROSE WITHOUT A THORN - Clifford Bax (Tavistock Little Theatre) The People's Theatre Season: Renee Ascherson, Geoffrey Wardwell, May Hallatt, Philip Geddes, Raymond Lovell, A.Bromley-Davenport, Brian Oulton, George Skillan, James Dale [4pp; minor marks, rumpled, else VG] £2
1940 (May): LES PARENTS TERRIBLES - Jean Cocteau (Gate Studio Theatre) Henry Oscar, Martita Hunt, Cyril Cusack, Vivienne Bennett; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp, 7x11; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] (£3) SOLD
1940 (May-Sep): A.R.WHATMORE'S LONDON PLAYERS - (His Majesty's, Aberdeen) - EIGHT PLAYS
Eight programmes from a wartime Scottish repertory season: the plays were TOVARICH, THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET, AUTUMN CROCUS, WHILE PARENTS SLEEP, I KILLED THE COUNT, BILLETED, AMBROSE LITTLEJOHN'S ADVENTURE, and WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; A.R.Whatmore's London Players included Richard Caldicot, Ruth Lodge, Norman Claridge, Donald Gray, Judith Fellows, Philip Friend, Eileen Erskine, Peter Ashmore, Josephine Middleton, Joyce Bland, Jane Henderson, Rosamund Merivale, Elspeth Cochrane, George Bishop, Stuart Easton, Harold Scott; all the plays were directed by A.R.Whatmore, with settings by Stephen Bundy [12-16pp each, 5.5x8.25; a few photos; minor marks, somewhat rumpled, staples rusty - but amazing survivors from wartime Scotland!] (£10) SOLD
Plays: 1941
1941: BLITHE SPIRIT - Coward (Piccadilly) Fay Compton, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker, Margaret Rutherford; dir:Noel Coward [8pp; 5.6x4.25; slightly scruffy] £3
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
Plays: 1942
1942: BLITHE SPIRIT - Coward (Piccadilly) Fay Compton, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker, Margaret Rutherford; dir:Noel Coward [8pp; 5x3.75; creased, else VG] £2
1942: BLITHE SPIRIT - Coward (Piccadilly) Irene Browne, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker, Ella Miln; dir:Noel Coward [8pp; 5x3.75; creased, else VG] £1
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
1942: THE NUTMEG TREE (St.James's) Yvonne Arnaud, Frederick Leister, Winifred Oughton, Walter Pringle, E.J.Kennedy, Una Venning, Naomi Jacob, The Balatons [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1942: FLARE PATH - Rattigan (Apollo) Adrienne Allen, George Cole, Jack Watling, Kathleen Harrison, Frank Thornton; dir:Anthony Asquith [4pp; rumpled] (£2) SOLD
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: BLITHE SPIRIT - Coward (Piccadilly) Irene Browne, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker, Agnes Lauchlan; dir:Noel Coward [8pp; 5x3.75; minor marks, else VG] £2
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 (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: LIFELINE - Norman Armstrong (Grand Opera House, Harrogate) White Rose Players: Alfred Stretton, Richard Henry, James E. Mills, David Ralph, Bligh Chesmond, O'Donovan Shiels, Henry Beckett, Brian Rix, Colin Collins, Eric Wright [6pp, 5.9x7.25 triplefold; minor marks, slightly tatty, else VG] £3
1943: LANDSLIDE - Dorothy Albertyn & David Peel, based on ALTITUDE 3200 by Julien Luchaire (Westminster) Dulcie Gray, Olga Edwardes, Pearl Evans, Sheila Sim, John Byron, Anthony Dawson, Keith Campbell, Peter Hammond, David Peel; dir:John Gielgud, decor by Rolf Gerard [4pp; w.4x6 flyer; VVG] £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
1943: THIS HAPPY BREED - Coward (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Noel Coward, Judy Campbell, Joyce Carey, Dennis Price; dir:Coward [4pp; date on cover and creased, else VG] £2
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: ANOTHER LOVE STORY - Lonsdale (Phoenix) Anton Walbrook, Zena Dare, A.E.Matthews, Ronald Culver, Judy Campbell; dir:Harold French [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1944: CRISIS IN HEAVEN - Linklater (Lyric) Ernest Thesiger, Esmond Knight, Dorothy Green, Dorothy Dickson, Frances Clare, Deering Wells, Adele Dixon; dir:John Gielgud, decor:Cecil Beaton [4pp; small edge bite, else VG] £2
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
1944: THE GATEWAY THEATRE CLUB, 18 Chepstow Villas, London, W.11. - FOUR PLAYS
22 Aug/HAPPY DESTINY - Miles Byrne, 7 Nov/WIDOW'S MIGHT -Frederick Jackson, 21 Nov/GEORGE AND MARGARET - Gerald W.Savory, 5 Dec/DANGEROUS CORNER - J.B.Priestley; The Gateway Repertory Players included Alec Feversham, Joyce Tyler, Raymond Mander, Kevin Sheldon, Mary Morrell, Margaret Routledge, Joe Mitchenson, Moyra Sheldon, Audrey Martin, Mela Brown, Dorothy Shackleton, Edward J.Wood, L.John Hiscox, Egon Wayne, Lanna Tobin, Geoffrey Miller, Patricia Page, Kit Wilson, Claude Bonser, Kenneth Saunders; production and settings by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson [4 single sheets, with hand-written dates; most unusual; VG] (£3) SOLD
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: WHILE THE SUN SHINES - Terence Rattigan (Globe) Hubert Gregg, Hugh McDermott, Muriel Pavlow, Hugh Wakefield, Brenda Bruce, Eugene Deckers; dir:Anthony Asquith [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; VG] £2
1945: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN - Ginsbury (Savoy) Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp; rumpled] £2
1945: PRIVATE LIVES (Apollo) John Clements, Kay Hammond [4pp; minor edge damage, else VG] (£2) SOLD
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: THE WIND OF HEAVEN (St.James's) Valerie Taylor, Emlyn Williams [4pp; small edge bite, minor marks, else VG] £1
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 (26 June): ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Strand) Ruth Taylor, Mary Jerrold, Naunton Wayne; c:Marcel Varnel [6pp, 3.25x8; programme to mark the 1,050th performance; minor marks, else VG] (£3) SOLD
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 (Nov): THE GAMBLER - Norman Ginsbury/Dostoevsky (Embassy) Hugh Burden, Kay Bannerman, Ferdy Mayne, May Hallatt, Mary Merrall, Gwendoline Watford; dir:Sebastian Shaw [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: WORM'S EYE VIEW - R.F.Delderfield (Embassy) Jack Hobbs, Ronald Shiner, Anthony Bazell [6pp triple-fold; minor folds, else VG] (£2) SOLD
1945 (Jul): WORM'S EYE VIEW - R.F.Delderfield (New Theatre, Oxford) Flyer Jack Stock, Donovan O'Shiell [single-sheet; uncommon; minor marks, else VG] (£1) SOLD
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
1945-1948: THE EMBASSY THEATRE - NINE PLAYS
1945: FATHER MALACHY'S MIRACLE - Brian Doherty, THE NEW MORALITY - Harold Chapin; 1946: NOW THE DAY IS OVER - Charles K.Freeman/Gerald Savory, MR.BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER - Donald Henderson, RED ROSES FOR ME - Sean O'Casey, GUEST IN THE HOUSE - Hagar Wilde/Dale Eunson/Emlyn Williams; 1947: HEADLIGHTS ON "A5" - Ronald Wilkinson, "DELIVER MY DARLING" - Joan Temple; 1948: THE VIGIL - Ladislas Fodor; the casts include Christopher Steele, Tony Quinn, Joan Rees, Ken Warrington, Ursula Howells, Blanche Fothergill, Gwendoline Watford, Victor Rietti, Rosemary Riggs, Mercia Swinburne, Betty Potter, Wilfred Babbage, Walter Hudd, Helen Burns, Terence De Marney, Gerald Lawson, Ian Fleming, Beatrice Varley, Bill Rowbotham, Beryl Measor, Irene Handl, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Margot Boyd, Anthony Hawtrey, Eddie Byrne, Adrianne Allen, Margaret Cooper, Eve Lynd, Anthony Ireland, Charles Lefeaux, Alfie Bass, Harold Lang, Sydney Tafler, Hector Ross, Charles Farrell, May Hallatt, Freda Jackson, Douglass Montgomery, Leslie Phillips, Barry K.Barnes, Walter Gotell, Frank Dunlop, Aubrey Dexter, Dora Bryan, Cherry Cottrell, Richard Littledale, Diana Churchill; the plays were directed by Anthony Hawtrey, Walter Hudd, Andree Howard, Terence de Marney, Wallace Douglas, Ria Mooney, Emlyn Williams, Michael Macowan, and Peter Dearing [9 programmes, each 6pp, 3.5x8 triple-fold; some spines partially split, minor marks, else VG] (£12) SOLD
1945: THE GATEWAY THEATRE CLUB, 18 Chepstow Villas, London, W.11. - SEVEN PLAYS
6 Mch/THE WAY THINGS HAPPEN - Clemence Dane, 17 Apr/THE WATCH POT - Saki, 8 May/SHEEP'S CLOTHING - Mackenzie Usill, 25 Sep/TOTAL ECLIPSE - Brenda Green, 2 Oct/SLEEPING DOGS - Constance Cox, 23 Oct/PEOPLE LIKE US A Banned Play - Frank Vosper, 6 Nov/THE LONG MIRROR - J.B.Priestley; The Gateway Repertory Players included Phyllis Rimmer, Enid Staff, Richmond Nairne, Dorothy Shackleton, Donald Cresswell, John Tanfield, Duff McCulloch, Constance Fecher, Freda Goodak, Henry Rayner, Richard Goolden, Nancy Nevison, Phoebe Noel-Smith, Patricia Page, Newton Blick, Kenneth Morgan, Audrey Binham, Lanna Tobin, David Ward, Mary Williams, Fay Myddleton, Marcus Insley, June Petersen, Robert Bishop, Huia Mase, Sybil Murray, Michael Dear, Kenneth Saunders, Anthony Pendrell, William Forbes, Yvonne Vaughan, Lilian Bravery, Cameron Miller, Lionel Stevens, Kevin Sheldon, Beatrice Kane, Pamela Mant, Valerie Rose, George Bartlett, Colin Eaton, Pauline Letts; the plays were directed by Basil Ashmore, Wilfred Fletcher, Marcus Insley, Irene Edouin, Mary Duff, Richard Taylor [7 single sheets, with hand-written dates, minor pencil marks; most unusual; VG] (£5) SOLD
Plays: 1946
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] £2
1946: THE WINSLOW BOY - Rattigan (Lyric) Emlyn Williams, Walter Fitzgerald, Angela Baddeley; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [4pp; "Emergency Programme" - single duplicated sheet] £1
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 (Leeds Grand Theatre) Leslie Banks, Hermione Baddeley [4pp; spine reinforced with tape] £1
1946: GRAND NATIONAL NIGHT - Dorothy & Campbell Christie (Apollo) Leslie Banks, Hermione Baddeley [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1946: PORTRAIT IN BLACK - Goff & Roberts (Theatre Royal, Newcastle) Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, Ronald Squire [4pp; four small punch holes, 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, small size; minor marks, else VG] £2
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: PATRICIA'S SEVEN HOUSES - Lajos Biro (Granville Theatre, Fulham Broadway) Rene Ray, Peter Illing, Brian Haines, Howard Douglas, Nino Rossini, Gerard Kempinski, Arthur Lovegrove; dir:John Hanau [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: YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Wyndham's) Harcourt Williams, Brenda Bruce, James Donald, Rosamund John, Ernest Thesiger [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3
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: SHE WANTED A CREAM FRONT DOOR (Apollo) Robertson Hare, Peter Haddon, Ian Carmichael [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1947: OFF THE RECORD (Piccadilly) Hubert Gregg, Pamela Matthews, Bill Gates, Hugh Wakefield, Roger Maxwell [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
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: DR.ANGELUS - Bridie (Phoenix) Alastair Sim, Betty Marsden, George Cole [4pp] £2
1947: GRAND NATIONAL NIGHT - Christie (Apollo) Leslie Banks, Hermione Baddeley [4pp; slightly tatty] (£2) SOLD
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] £3
1947: PRESENT LAUGHTER - Coward (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Hugh Sinclair, Joan Swinstead, Avis Scott, Daphne Newton, Joyce Carey, Moira Lister; dir:Noel Coward [4pp; horizontal crease, else VG] £2
1947: LIFE WITH FATHER - Day/Lindsay/Crouse (Savoy) Leslie Banks, Sophie Stewart [8pp; photographic cover] £2
1947: EVER SINCE PARADISE - Priestley (New) Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Dennis Arundell; dir:Priestley [8pp] (£3) SOLD
1947: THE MAN FROM THE MINISTRY - Bingham (Comedy) Charles Lefeaux, Gwen Nelson [8pp] £1
1947: HAPPY AS LARRY - MacDonagh and A POUND ON DEMAND - Sean O'Casey (Mercury Theatre) Michael Gwynn, Liam Redmond, Anna Burden, Wilfred Brambell, Norman Tyrrell; dir:Denis Carey [4pp, 4.5x11.25; with "Glossary of Hard Words"; rumpled] £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: ANNA LUCASTA - Yordan (His Majesty's) Hilda Simms, Frederick O'Neal, Frank Silvera, Georgia Burke, Earle Hyman [4pp; cast, credits etc.; lightly rumpled, else 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 PLAY'S THE THING (St.James's) Clive Brook, Irene Worth, Michael Shepley [4pp; minor marks, rumpled] £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: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES - Thomas Hardy adapt.Ronald Gow (Piccadilly) Wendy Hiller, Paul Rogers, Hugh Burden, Joan Sanderson, Jane Wenham, Nora Nicholson; dir:Hugh Hunt and Michael Macowan [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
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: TRESPASS - Emlyn Williams (Apollo) Emlyn Williams, Raymond Westwell, Leon Quartermaine, Gladys Henson [4pp; minor marks and edge damage, else VG] £2
1947: JANE (Aldwych) Yvonne Arnaud, Ursula Howells, Ronald Squire, Irene Browne; dir:Richard Bird [4pp; minor marks, light fold, 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: BOYS IN BROWN (Duchess) John Carol, Gerald Campion, Frank Coburn, Nigel Stock, Michael Ripper, Andre Morell, Richard Warner; dir:Norman Marshall [8pp; minor marks, else VG] (£3) SOLD
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: WORM'S EYE VIEW (Whitehall) Ronald Shiner, Jack Hobbs, Anthony Bazell [6pp triple-fold, 3.4x8; minor marks, rumpled, else VG] (£1) SOLD
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
1947: TOBACCO ROAD - Erskine Caldwell adapt.Jack Kirkland (New Lindsay Theatre Club) Joan Young, Robert Berkeley, John McLaren; dir:Robert Henderson [8pp, 5.5x8.5; minor marks, 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; VG] £2
1948: CRIME PASSIONEL - Sartre (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Roger Livesey, Joyce Redman [8pp; creased] (£2) SOLD
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: THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE - Dighton (Apollo) Margaret Rutherford, George Howe [4pp] £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: 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
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: MASTER OF ARTS (Strand) Roland Culver, David O'Brien, Margot Lister, Ursula Howells, Enid Sass; dir:Michael Benthall [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] (£2) SOLD
1949: WORM'S EYE VIEW - R.F.Delderfield (Whitehall) Jack Hobbs, Ronald Shiner, Lorraine Clewes, Christopher Brooks [6pp triple-fold, 3.5x8.25; minor marks, else VG] (£2) SOLD
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: DARK OF THE MOON - Richardson/Berney (Lyric Hammersmith) Company of Four production: William Sylvester, Sandra Dorne, Joan MacArthur, Eileen Way, Sheila Burrell; dir:Peter Brook [4pp] £2
1949: DARK OF THE MOON - Richardson/Berney (Ambassadors) Company of Four production: William Sylvester, Sandra Dorne, Joan MacArthur, Eileen Way, Sheila Burrell; dir:Peter Brook [8pp, blue on white] £3
1949: DARK OF THE MOON - Richardson/Berney (Ambassadors) Company of Four production: William Sylvester, Sandra Dorne, Joan MacArthur, Eileen Way, Sheila Burrell; dir:Peter Brook [12pp, red on white; VG] £4
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 PHILADELPHIA STORY - Barry (Duchess) Margaret Leighton, Wilfred Hyde White [8pp] (£2) SOLD
1949: THE LATE EDWINA BLACK - Dinner/Morum (Ambassadors) Catherine Lacey, Stephen Murray [12pp] £2
1949: THE MALE ANIMAL - Thurber/Nugent (New Theatre) Arthur Hill, Barbara Kelly, Newton Blick; dir:Roy Rich [8pp; rumpled] (£2) SOLD
1949: HARVEY - Chase (Prince of Wales) Sid Field, Athene Seyler, Violet Farebrother; dir:Anthony Quayle [8pp, w.photographic cover; VG] £4
1949: LOVE IN ALBANIA - Linklater (St.James's) Peter Ustinov, Peter Jones, Brenda Bruce, Robin Bailey; dir:Ustinov [8pp; lightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1949: TOBACCO ROAD - Kirkland (Playhouse) Thora Hird, Mervyn Johns, Vida Hope; dir:Robert Henderson [8pp; cast, credits, synopsis etc.] £2
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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