It was a melodrama about a woman who locks another in the family burial vault to prevent her from marrying her brother.

Thorndike was a British actress, and the sister of author Russell Thorndike. Her first public performance was as a pianist at age of 11, but a few years later had to give up the piano due to piano cramp. Her brother suggested she train as an actress. When only 21 she was offered her first professional contract, a tour of the USA with the actor-manager Ben Greet's company.

She made her first stage appearance in Greet's 1904 production of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". She went on to tour the States in Shakespearean repertory for four years, playing more than 100 roles.

Nares had a lengthy stage and screen career and, for most of the 1920s, was Britain's favourite matinée idol and silent film star. In 1910, after a year's acting training, he was playing bit parts in West End productions, including the St. James’s Theatre and the Pinero’s Mid Channel. Over the next few years, he performed with many of the stars of the era including Beerbohm Tree, Constance Collier and Marion Terry. Nares starred in popular West End shows, almost without pause, until 1926, when he set off with his own company for a tour of South Africa.

A year or two later, he continued his West End career through the 1930s, starring in this play and in "Call it a Day" at the Globe Theatre the next year.

The show also featured: Dora Barton, H. Worral-Thompson, Josephine Dent, Edwin Morton, Carol Goodner, Christine Silver, George Elton, Charles Lefeaux, Owen Nares, Sebastian Shaw and James Parish.

McFadden appears to have only written one other play, the 1945 effort, "Signature" and an effort it must have been as it only lasted for two performances on Broadway.

Other features of the magazine include: the weekly Theatre Gossip column with a caricature of Sir Nigel Playfair and a photo of Lesley Wareing in the title role of Wycherley's "The Country Wife" at The Ambassadors, Leslie Banks and Gillian Lind as Clive and Mrs Clive in "Clive of India" at the Wyndham, and Nora Swinburne, Frank Allenby, Marie Tempest and Claude Horton in a scene from Harwood's play, "The Old Folks at Home" at the Queen's Theatre. The regular column, "The Stage of the Past" number 8, Colley Cibber, 1671-1757; the regular column, "The Stage of the Present", an interview with Patrick Waddington by Dorothy Drake; book and record reviews and several other features.

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh of Liverpool, in whose extensive collection of theatrical ephemera this item was contained. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The covers and textblock are bright and clean but the staples are rusty and the cover is detached but present.
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Accompanying the Opera company were The Scottish Philharmonia and The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, both with with leader John Tunnell, and associate leader Dorothie Bor, and The Scottish Opera Chorus, with chorus director John Currie.

"Lucia Di Lammermoor" starred John Robertson, Delme Bryn-Jones, Don Garrard, Robert Lloyd, Clifford Grant, Catherine Gayer, Claire Livingstone, Roseanne Orr, David Hillman, Richard Greager and David Fieldsend. Jim Hastie was choreographer and Roderick Brydon conducted.

"La Boheme" starred Reginald Byers, Ronald Morrison, William McCue, Gordon Sandison, Norman White, Joanna Bruno, Catherine Wilson, Peter Bodenham, David Scrrivens, and Gerald Blakely. Charles Groves was conductor.

"The Barber of Seville" starred David Scrivens, David Hillman, David Fieldsend, Anne Howells, Patricia Hay, Malcolm Donnelly, Michael Maurel, Lawrence Richard, Ian Wallace, Gaetano Rea, Judith Pierce, William McCue, Norman White, and Gerald Blakely. David Frame was conductor.

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh of Liverpool, in whose extensive collection of theatrical ephemera this item was contained. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The covers (aqua card with drawings of zodiac symbols) are a bit rubbed and edgeworn with bumped corners. Textblock is immaculate, except for bumped corners.
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Venues included: Liverpool's Empire Theatre, The Theatre Royal in Glasgow and His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. Accompanying the Opera company were The Scottish Opera Orchestra led by Angus Anderson.

The cast included Ian Caley, Alan Oke, Stafford Dean, Margaret Marshall, Ian Caddy, Anne Howells, Francis Egerton, Maria Moll, John Robertson, and Norman White. Eleanor Moore, and Paul Tyres were the dancers. Malcolm Aitken, James Paterson, Grant Richards, Graeme Danby, David Morrison, Ian McKinven, Declan McCusker, and Peter Richfield were the servants.

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh of Liverpool, in whose extensive collection of theatrical ephemera this item was contained. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The covers (card with colour portrait of Strauss) are a bit edgeworn with very slightly bumped corners. Textblock is immaculate.
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The cast included Nicky Andrews, Peter Barry, Neale Birch, Richard Brightiff, Debby Bundy, Peter Challis, David Danns, Geoff David, Alan Forrester, Veronica Hart, Sarah-Jane Hassell, Michelle Hodgson, Samantha Hughes, Kenny Linden, Ray Mangion, Diane Manou, Kevin Marlow, Nicola Meerloo, Kerri Murphy, Amanda Nolan, Caroline O'Connor, Carl Roachford, Robert B.J. Ryan, Susan Tan, Taffy Taylor, Michael J. Urwin, and Vincent White.

O'Connor (1962) is an English-Australian singer, dancer and actress. She trained at the Royal Ballet School in London and worked full-time at the Australian Opera Ballet. Her film work includes the featured role of Nini Legs in the Air in Baz Luhrmann's film "Moulin Rouge", and as Ethel Merman in the Cole Porter biopic "De-Lovely", according to wikipedia.

In 2003 O'Connor made her Broadway debut as Velma Kelly in "Chicago". Her West End theatre performances include Mabel in "Mack & Mabel" for which she received an Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. O'Connor was a member of the original 1986 revival cast of "Me and My Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre.

O'Connor's other UK theatre credits include "A Chorus Line", "Hold on Tight it's 60's Night", "Chicago", "Damn Yankees".

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh of Liverpool, in whose extensive collection of theatrical ephemera this item was contained. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The item is immaculate
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This article was published in Cassell's Family Magazine and was removed from a bound volume of the magazine for 1890, which volume was already in a poor condition and beyond repair thanks to a previous owner. The article and engraving are immaculate.
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Chetham-Strode (1896 - 1974) was an English author and playwright. He wrote several plays including "The Guinea Pig" and "A Play for Ronnie" and screenplays for several films between 1935 and 1951 including "Odette".

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh's extensive collection of theatrical ephemera. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The text is clean, except for very slight edgewear and creases.
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In the cast were: Alice Delysia and Rex Harrison. Also in this production's cast were , Winifred Radford, Enid Doughty, Ian Jarvis, Anthony Gordon, Sidney Trevelyan, Hugh Casson, Leo Sheffieeld, Richard Murdoch, Peggy Rawlings, Margaret Davidge, Madge White, Edward Bonfield, Walter Pemberton, Edward Roye, Scott Freeland, Harold de Vere, Mary Radford, Robert Coote, and Harold Colonna. The play ran at The Gaiety Theatre London earlier in the year for 181 performances.

The show is a comedy of the absurd in which a woman who thinks she has a rival for the love of an officer, eventually finds out the rival is his mother.

Delysia (1889-1979), was a French actress and singer, was "from the 1920s until her retirement in the late 1940s, one of the most exciting and alluring stars of the London stage," according to Patrick Newley IMDb's Mini Biography of her. And a brief sketch of her life at the National Portrait Gallery, said she "began as a chorus girl at the Moulin Rouge in Paris... In London she gained her greatest success in a series of revues produced by C.B. Cochran, including "As You Were" (1918) ... and "On With The Dance" (1924) in which she introduced Noël Coward's 'Poor Little Rich Girl'. At the Gaiety Theatre she was the worldly-wise actress in "Mother Of Pearl" (1933)"

PROVENANCE: this item comes from the collection of H. W. Roxburgh of Liverpool, in whose extensive collection of theatrical ephemera this item was contained. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Aug, 2007.

The pamphlet has an inked notation by the prior owner noting the play came from a London theatre, also a rusted staple a one-inch closed tear half way down the foredge and lots of edgewear..
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