Author: MACQUEEN-POPE, W.
Title: Late Night Theatre, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Description: Plaistow: The Curwen Press, 1951. Late Night Theatre: With plays and players representative of the British Theatre presented by The Newspaper Proprietors Association by kind permission of the Directors of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Monday 9th July 1951 at 11pm. Organized by Prince Littler and John Varley. Contains an outline history of the theatre by Offical Historian W. Macqueen-Pope. Plus Programme to centre pages: 1.Prologue spoken by Sybil Thorndike as Sarah Siddons; 2.Excerpt from The Gondoliers - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; 3.Scene from School for Scandal introduced by Laurence Olivier; 4. Pat Kirkwood; 5.Scene from The Admirable Crichton Introduced by Ralph Richardson; 6.The Palladium Girls introduced by George Robey; 7.Eddie Gordon and Nancy; 8.Tommy Trinder; 9.Olive Gilbert introduced by Edith Evans; Interval; 10.Introduction to the Second Half by Esmond Knight as King Charles II; 11.Scene from Man and Superman; 12.Beatrice Lillie; 13.Scene ferom Twellfth Night featuring Peggy Ashcroft; 14.Grand Pas de Deux from the ballet Don Quixote with Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin; 15.Kensington Girls; 16.Happy and Glorious by Laurence Housman; 17.The Toast from Cavalcade by Noel Coward; 18.Finale. Pp.29, 6 pages of the programme bound in with decorated papers to centre, black & white frontispiece + 10 further plates and text illustrations, crease to lower corner tip of title page. Decorated card covers (matching inner programme cover), chipping to top front edge. G+.

Keywords: Macqueen Pope Late Night Theatre Royal Drury Lane History 49093 Theatre


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