THE PLAY PICTORIAL Magazines

As well as lavish photographic coverage of a single production, these magazines usually include an editorial, a cast list, the story of the play, general theatrical comment and stylish period advertisements. Most spines are slightly rubbed and staples beginning to rust, but except where noted, the content of these magazines is in excellent condition.

The Play Pictorial: 1930s
Play Pictorial No.337
PlayPict/1930 (Apr) No.337 - MICHAEL AND MARY - A.A.Milne (St.James's/1.2.30)
Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Olwen Brooks, Margaret Scudamore, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton [32pp; excellent photos; further reviews and features, including 'Silver Wings' with Lupino Lane, Ralph Richardson, Desiree Ellinger, Harry Welchman; complete issue; VG] £8

PlayPict/1930 (Sep) No.342 - THE SWAN - Molnar (St.James's/June 1930)
Edna Best, Herbert Marshall, Henrietta Watson, Colin Clive, Margaret Watson, Basil Loder, Irene Vanbrugh [28pp; excellent photos; complete issue; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£7) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.345
PlayPict/1930 (Dec) No.345 - THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET - Besier (Queen's/23.9.30)
Cedric Hardwicke, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Scott Sunderland, Marjorie Mars, Eileen Beldon, Barry K.Barnes, Joan Barry [28pp; excellent photos; complete issue; slightly rumpled, spine partially split, else VG] (£6) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.350
PlayPict/1931 (May) No.350 - WHITE HORSE INN - Benatzky/Stolz (London Coliseum/8.4.31)
Clifford Mollison, Lea Seidl, Mary Lawson, George Gee, Rita Page, Bruce Carfax, Frederick Leister, Jack Barty, Jimmy Hanley (as Piccolo) [28pp; excellent photos; complete issue; minor damage to cover, spine split, else VG] (£6) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.357
PlayPict/1931 (Dec) No.357 - CAVALCADE - Coward (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane/13.10.31)
Mary Clare, Edward Sinclair, Una O'Connor, Fred Groves, Irene Browne, Binnie Barnes; dir:Noel Coward [36pp; 27 magnificent photos; centre double-page spread colour-tinted; a very impressive memento of this spectacular production; covers detached, somewhat tatty] (£5) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.368
PlayPict/1932 (Nov) No.368 - WORDS AND MUSIC - Coward (Adelphi/16.9.32)
John Mills, Ivy St.Helier, Doris Hare, Joyce Barbour, Romney Brent, Nora Howard, Rita Lyle, Edward Underdown, Steffi Duna, Moya Nugent; dir:Noel Coward [36pp; 29 excellent photos; complete issue; tiny tear to cover, else VG; an excellent record of this highly successful revue] (£8) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.392
PlayPict/1934 (Dec) No.392: cover-Owen Nares; Scenes from SWEET ALOES - Mallory (Diana Wynyard, Joyce Carey, Alan Napier, Jack Allen, Hartley Power, Vivienne Bennett - 6 pages, 7 photos), HAMLET at the New Theatre (John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, Laura Cowie, Frank Vosper, Glen Byam Shaw, George Howe, Jack Hawkins - 6 photos), VIC-WELLS BALLET (Alicia Markova, Robert Helpmann - 2 photos), HI-DIDDLE-DIDDLE (Douglas Byng, Doris Hare, June - 6 pages, 12 photos), LUCKY BREAK - Furber (Leslie Henson, Adele Dixon, Sydney Fairbrother, David Hutcheson, Phyllis Stanley, Richard Hearne - 6 pages, 11 photos), THEATRE ROYAL - Ferber/Kaufman (Marie Tempest, Laurence Olivier, Madge Titheradge, Margaret Vines, Wallace Douglas, George Zucco, Valentine Dyall, dir:Noel Coward - 7 pages, 10 photos); First Nights, Theatre Gossip, Plays of the Month, 'How Pantomime is Dying Out' (8 photos), Obituary and photo of Pinero etc. [40pp; 8.9x11.1; excellent photos, VG condition] (£6) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.393
PlayPict/1935 (Jan) No.393: cover-Marie Tempest; Scenes from HYDE PARK CORNER (Godfrey Tearle, Marion Lorne, Gordon Harker, Mervyn Johns - 6 pages, 12 photos), LOVERS' LEAP - Johnson (Nora Swinburne, Ursula Jeans, Walter Hudd, Owen Nares - 3 pages, 6 photos), MARY READ (Robert Donat, Flora Robson, Beatrice Wilson, Wilfrid Walter - 8 pages, 14 photos), THE BING BOYS ARE HERE (George Robey, Violet Loraine - 4 pages, 9 photos), THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT (Hermione Baddeley, Angela Baddeley, Margaret Rawlings, Robert Newton, Clive Morton - 3 pages, 5 photos), THE WINDMILL REVUDEVILLE (Gus, Meggie Eaton), Pantomime (Phyllis Neilson-Terry, June, Sir Henry Lytton); portrait of Lea Seidl etc. [36pp; 8.9x11.1; excellent photos, VG] (£6) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.404
PlayPict/1935 (Dec) No.404: cover-Fay Compton; Scenes from CALL IT A DAY - Dodie Smith (Fay Compton, Owen Nares, Marie Lohr, Valerie Taylor, Muriel George, Austin Trevor - 6 pages, 13 photos), OUR OWN LIVES - Jennings (Irene Vanbrugh, Baliol Holloway, Tristan Rawson, Lady Tree, Lewis Stringer, Laura Cowie, Kenneth Villiers - 6 pages, 11 photos), British Ballet (Markova, Dolin - 7 photos), SHORT STORY - Morley (Marie Tempest, Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford, Sybil Thorndike, A.E.Matthews, Ursula Jeans - 7 photos), TREAD SOFTLY (Yvonne Arnaud, Robert Flemyng, Ronald Squire - 3 photos), TWENTY TO ONE (Lupino Lane, Joyce Barbour, Betty Norton - 10 photos); Pantomime Personalities (10 photos), 'The Talk of Theatreland', John Gielgud as Romeo etc. [36pp; 8.9x11.25; excellent photos, VG] (£6) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.408
PlayPict/1936 No.408 - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Austen/Jerome (St.James's/27.2.36)
Celia Johnson, Hugh Williams, Barbara Everest, Dorothy Hyson, Joan Harben, Athole Stewart, John Teed, Viola Lyel, Anthony Quayle, Lyonel Watts, Eva Moore [20pp; excellent photos; complete issue; centre pages loose, grubby cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.409
PlayPict/1936 (May) No.409 - THE SEAGULL - Chekhov (New/20.5.36)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Martita Hunt, Leon Quartermaine, Ivor Barnard, Stephen Haggard, George Devine, Clare Harris, Frederick Lloyd; produced by Komisarjevsky [20pp; 29 excellent photos; complete issue of 'Play Pictorial' devoted to this production; covers loose, some edge damage (photos unaffected)] (£3) SOLD
Play Pictorial No.413
PlayPict/1936 No.413 - JANE EYRE - Bronte/Jerome (Queen's/13.10.36)
Curigwen Lewis, Reginald Tate, Susan Richmond, Frank Tickle, Betty Percheron, Dorothy Hamilton (as The Maniac), Yvette Pienne, Marie Ault, Mollie Shannon [20pp; excellent photos; complete issue; cover slightly faded, else VG] £6

PlayPict/1937 (Jun) No.419 - HOUSEMASTER - Hay (Apollo/12.11.36, Shaftesbury/1937)
Frederick Leister, Tony Wickham, Elizabeth Nolan, Rosalyn Boulter, Joan White, John Ford, Humphrey Morton, P.Kynaston-Reeves [20pp; excellent photos; complete issue; VG] £6
Play Pictorial No.420
PlayPict/1937 (Jul) No.420 - PAGANINI - Lehar
Richard Tauber, Evelyn Laye, Esme Percy, George Hayes, Joan Panter, Charles Heslop [24pp, 8.6x11.25; 27 magnificent photos, all captioned; complete issue; VG] (£6) SOLD

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