1950
March 6-11: Glamorous Night, with Barry Mackay, Victoria Campbell, John McHugh, Paul
Rycroft, George Street, John Rogers, Margaret Green, Rex Korda, Peter Stretton, Maris
Randall, Philip Sherman, Corps de Ballet, Operatic Chorus
March 14-18: Peter Pan, with Margaret Lockwood, John Justin, Christina Forrest, Elizabeth
Clifford, Philip Ray, Iain Scott, Desmond Carrington, Denis Carew, Stanley Platts,
Derek Rock, Bill Croydon, Jane Wren
March 20-25: International Ballet: The Sleeping Princess, Coppelia, Les Sylphides,
Endymion, Sea Legend, Visions, Swan Lake, with Mona Inglesby, Algeranoff, Ernest
Hewitt, Errol Addison, Helene Armfelt, Claudie Algeranova, Sandra Vane, Miroslav
Zloch, Maurice Bejart, Anne Suren, Peter White, Denys Palmer, Patricia Bentley, Ninette
Gold, Myra Kidd, Christine Blair, John Healy, Harold Robinson, Joyce Gearing, Bridget
Kelly, Anthony Wallis, Antony Eustrel, Basil Rabin, Malcolm Hughes, David Lusby,
Jeanette Minty, James Walker, Wynn Reeves
March 27-April 1: The Damascus Blade (Laurence Olivier presentation), with John Mills,
Beatrix Lehmann, Peter Finch, Austin Trevor, Barry Jones, Mary Mackenzie
April 3-15: Lilac Time, with Celia Lipton, John Lewis, Tudor Evans, Sydney Arnold,
Wilfred Gartrell, James Durban, William Senior, Brenda Stanley, Betty Felstead, Joseph
Sealy, Yvonne Manners, Rita Varian, Dimitri Vetter, Audrey Hemmerde, Norman Gay,
Raymond Wayne
April 17-May 6: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Darrell Fancourt,
Peter Pratt, Leonard Osborn, Herbert Newby, Martyn Green, Richard Watson, Margaret
Mitchell, Alan Styler, Ella Halman, Joan Gillingham, Thomas Hancock, Stanley Youngman,
Muriel Harding, Isidore Godfrey
May 9-June 17: Annie Get your Gun, with Barbara Shotter, Neville Mapp, Neil Sweetmore,
Bertram Dench, David Reid, Frank Crane, Winifred Braemar, Audrey Freeman, James Browne,
Ronald Barnes, Arthur D Logan
June 19-July 1: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Carmen,
Cosi fan Tutte, La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliace, Hugh the Drover, with
Marion Lowe, Rowland Jones, Amy Shuard, Frederick Sharp, Gerald Davies, Denis Dowling,
Arnold Matters, Elsie Morison, Anna Pollak, Marion Studholme, Joyce Gartside, James
Johnston, James McKenna, Kate Jackson, Olwen Price, Hervey Alan, Josephine Proust,
Frank Sale, Minnia Bower, John Kentish, Roderick Jones, James Robertson, Michael
Mudie
July 3-8: Donald Peers, Ernest Ponticelli, Alec Pleon, Jimmy Elliott, Myrons, Stella
Marie and Paul
July 10-15: Lena Horne, Tovarich Troupe, Sirdani, Eve and Lilian, Joe Black, Tipsy
and Brow, Fred Lovelle, Mills and Belita
July 17-22: Forces Showboat - all-male comedy revue, with ex-Army, Navy and RAF personnel:
Terry Bartlett and Colin Ross, Moray Brothers and Dave, Whirlwind Elwardos, Cliff
Sherlock, Showboat Lovelies
July 24-29: Hypnotism, with Peter Casson
July 31-August 5: Billy Cotton and his Band, with Alan Breeze, Doreen Stephens, Clem
Bernard; La Esterella, Harry Kahne, Kemble Brothers and Christine, Mr Lyons, Charles
Hague, Dorothy Gray and Brothers
August 7-12: Grand Holiday Programme, with Rose Murphy (The Chee-Chee Girl), Steve
Conway and Jack Martin, Billy Russell, Max Bacon, Jane and Little Fritzi, Freddie
Harris and Christine, Frank Marx and Iris, Dey, Dey and Dey
August 14-19: Mischa Auer, Peter Sellers, Harold Barnes, Peggy Mortimer and Mark
Ollington, Revel and Fields, Erikson, MacDonald and Graham, Cynthia and Gladys
August 21-26: Stand Easy, with Charlie Chester and Radio’s Crazy Gang - Fred Ferrari,
Ken Morris, Arthur Haynes, Edwina Carol, Len Marten, Harry Richards; Gene Anderton,
Five Brahims, Ivanko Four, Marriott and Wenman, John Tiller Girls
August 28-September 2: Allan Jones, Ernest Arnley and Gloria, Tattersall, Eva May
Wong, Cooke’s Pony Revue, Hackford and Doyle, Linda and Lana, Two Valors
September 4-9: Let the People Sing!, with Issy Bonn, Bonn-a-Chords, Sweet Notes,
Patricia and Rudy, Len Clifford and Freda, Hazel, Viona and Tommy Elliott, Maurice
and May, Denis Gordon, Arthur Vollum, Gordon Rolfe, John Tiller Girls
September 12-30: The White Horse Inn, with Nita Croft, Bert Brownbill, Fred Stone,
Nancy Burne, Wilfred Johns, Harold Childs, Stella Kemball, Hilton Layland, Malcolm
Watson
October 2-7: Music at Midnight, with Genevieve Guitry, Andrew Osborne, Austin Trevor,
Hannah Watt, Joan Heal, Ballard Berkeley, Cameron Hall, Gwen Dante, Nigel Neilson,
Aud Johansen, Deirdre de Peyer, Eugenie Sivyer, Riccy Chisholm
October 9-28: Bless the Bride, with Edmond Goffron, Valerie Lawson, Eric Fort, Jack
Farr, James Harcourt, Edna Clement, Marianne Juer, Marjorie Chard, Stewart Vartan,
Tommy Hudson, Hebe Bliss, Tom Lewis, Chorus and Corps de Ballet
October 30-November 4: September Tide, with Evelyn Laye, Frank Lawton, Ann Walford
November 6-18: Tom Arnold’s Ice Revue of 1950, with Eddie Ward, Anne Rogers, Maisie
Brown, Alma Cookson, Four Eskimos, Topper Martyn, Cyclo Brothers, Hamilton Brown,
Badminton on ice, with William Bowdler, George Stevens
November 21-December 16: Oklahoma!, with Peter Felgate, John Elliott, Marilyn Nowell,
Alfred Cibelli, Billie Love, Babette Regnier, Ian Stuart, Maxwell Coker, Jennie Gregson,
Jack Higginson, Glenn Martin, Harry Ross, Laura Hedley, Joan Steer, Monica Brent,
Patricia Halligan, Joyce Moreton, Marguerite Stewart, Payne Converse, Georgina Rouke,
Stan Thomason, Ivor Smith, Anthony Coppock, Michael Rocharde
December 23-March 3: Humpty Dumpty, with Jean Adrienne, Freddie Frinton, Duncan Gray,
Fred Wynne, Stan Little, Phyllis Adrian, Harry Simms, Hugh Harden, Sylvia Vowels,
Elaine Millar, Zacchini Trio, Cilla’s Football Dogs, Sherman Fisher Girls, Peggy
Barnes’ 12 Alvettes
1951
March 5-10: Village Wooing, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The Man of Destiny, with
Rosamund John, Griffith Jones, Ellen Pollock, Karel Stepanek
March 12-17: Home and Beauty, with Brenda Bruce, Hugh Burden, Anthony Marlowe, Brian
Oulton, Susan Richmond, Barbara Leake, John Boxer, Peggyann Clifford, Virginia Hewett,
Philip Ashley, Marjorie Dunkels, May Hallatt
March 19-31: Festival Ballet: Petrouchka, Le Beau Danube, The Nutcracker, Giselle,
Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Harlequinade, Dying Swan, Bolero, Blue Bird, Le Spectre
de la Rose, Capriccioso, with Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, Tatiana Riabouchinska,
John Gilpin, Paula Hinton, Anita Landa, Malcolm Goddard, Vassilie Trunoff, Noel Rossana,
Keith Beckett, Audrey Harman, Jacqueline Mannechez, Peter White, Bryan Balkwill
April 2-9: Charley’s Aunt, with Leslie Phillips, Frank Tilton, Frederick Morant,
Donald Price, Bryan Grant, Howard Lamb, Anne Brooke, Elizabeth London, Susan Dudley,
Jocelyn Teasdale
April 9-21: Folies Bergere Revue, with Kenneth Birrell, Vivan and Tassi, Eddie Vitch,
Les Trois de Milles, Karma and Yaki
April 23-28: The Student Prince, with Lilian Stewart, John Graham, Jimmy Godden,
Andrew Waterson, Dennis Astell, Molly Wainwright, Josie Hale, Leal Douglas, Bert
Randall, Corps de Ballet, Operatic Chorus
April 30-May 5: Red Ingle and the Frantic Four, Jimmy Elliott, Shirley, Sharon and
Wanda, Scott Sanders, Olga Varona, Cycling Oxfords, Vic Ray Trio, Scott and Foster
May 7-19: Carl Rosa Opera Company: Carmen, La Boheme, The Barber of Seville, Faust,
Rigoletto, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, John Socman, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci,
The Flying Dutchman, with Gita Denise, Una Hale, John Myrddin, Arthur Wallington,
Hubert Dunkerley, Gita de la Fuente, Alice Gange, George Chitty, Redvers Llewellyn,
Donald Campbell, Gwent Lewis, Frederick Wood, Ernest Thomas, Stella Phillips, Tudor
Davies, Ruth Packer, Elizabeth Theilmann, Sheila Hardie, Oreste Jirkop, Joseph Satariano,
Arthur Fear, Arthur Hammond, Mauritts Sillem
May 21-26: Frankie Howerd, Eddie Arnold, Voltaires, Charles Warren and Jean, Cycling
Brockways, Tony and Ruby, Bobbie Kimber, Six Westway Girls
May 28-June 2: A Streetcar Named Desire, with Helen Horton, William Sylvester, Frances
Hyland, David Powell, Eileen Dale, George Cooper, Paul Bogdan
June 4-9: Froufrou, with Jean Kent, Lloyd Pearson, Eric Berry, Margaret Diamond,
Megan Latimer, Donald Sinden, Diana Mahoney, Anthony Addison, Frank Henderson, Martin
Lane, Eric Messiter, Pamela Grant, Walter Price, Henry Jack, Elizabeth James
June 11-16: The Voice of Variety, with Ronnie Ronalde, Steffani and Orchestra, Arthur
Worsley, Ossie Noble, Jose Moreno and Partner, A J Powers, Nat Hope, Bebe and Belle,
Rey Overbury and Suzette
June 18-23: Lee Lawrence and Len Taylor, Anton Karas, Billy Russell, Max Bacon, Slim
Rhyder, Kay Kortz and Eugene, Helga Barry, Charles Adey and Dawn
June 25-30: Nellie Lutcher and her Rhythm - George Duvivier (base), Earl Hyde (drums);
Jimmy Wheeler, Harry Tate Junior and company, The Jewels, Frank Marx and Iris, Ray
and Madge Lamar, Lorraine, Kenways
July 2-7: The Nitwits - Sid Millward, Wally Stewart, Cyril Lagey, Arthur Calkin,
Billy Christmas, Fred Willetts, Dennis Croker, Ronnie Genarder, Jack Brent; Sam Costa,
Bobby Breen, Finlay Brothers, Mereaux and Lilane, Curzon Trio, Kizma and Karen
July 9-14: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, Alan Breeze, Doreen Stephens,
Clem Bernard; Freddie Sales, Arthur Dowler, Mills and Belita, Los Ona, Two Valors
July 16-21: Bonar Colleano, Syd and Max Harrison, Albert and Les Ward, Wilson, Keppel
and Betty, Lee Royce, Two Angelos, Betty Hobbs Globe Girls
July 23-28: Deep River Boys, Vic Wise, Jay Palmer and Doreen, Flying Cromwells, Harry
Worth, Bernard Spear, Musical Derricks and Tony, Jackie, Shane Sisters
July 30-August 4: Gypsy Rose Lee, Walthon and Dorraine, Morecambe and Wise, Hazel
and Audrey Ross, Chris Sands, Roger Carne, Three Hotleys
August 6-11: Highlights of Radio, with Max Wall, Radio Revellers, Semprini, Dick
James, Jack “Hubert” Watson, Lester Sharpe, Tune-In Lovelies, Jothia and Joan
August 13-18: Rose Murphy (the Chee-Chee Girl), Vic and Joe Crastonian, Charlie Clapham,
Three Lederers, George Meaton, Two Yolandas, Merle and Marie, Joe and Kay Stuthard
August 20-25: “Monsewer” Eddie Gray and Jack Hartman, Arthur English, Ivor Moreton
and Dave Kaye, Lowe and Ladd, Val Merrall, MacDonald and Graham, Betty Kaye’s Pekes,
Frances Duncan
August 27-September 1: Sugar Chile Robinson, Ali Bey and company, Tattersall and
Jerry and company, Paul and Pauline, Joy, Joy and Joy, Paula Coutts, Fran Dowie and
Candy Kane
September 3-22: Brigadoon, with Peter Vernon, Denise Walker, Stella Moray, Leon Czerny,
Philip Dale, James McKenna, Keith Shepherd, Humphrey Heathcote, John Talbot, Douglas
Ward, Arthur Jordan, Mary Ross, Ursula Fincham, Julian Pepper, Joanna Duncan
September 24-October 6: Folies Bergere Revue, with Eddie Vitch, Vivian and Tassi,
Alec Pleon, Trois de Milles, Carma and Yaki, Vilma La Verne, Helen Crerer, Kenneth
Birrell
October 8-13: Bless the Bride, with Edmund Goffron, Valerie Lawson, Peter Croft,
Marianne Juer, Gavin Gordon, Zena Shaw, Kamala Amasur, Phyllis Gladwyn, Jane Linton,
Richard Gilbert, Harry Lacey, Stella Maris, Helen Lawrence, J Rees-Evans, Josephine
Burns
October 15-20: National Light Opera Company: Chu Chin Chow, with Joan Wood, Vera
Christie, Gladys Cowper, Bernard Dudley, C Denier Warren, William Dickie, Henry Norton,
Roger Avon, Kenneth Macdonald, June Lynette, Douglas Thompson, William Dickie, Austin
Cooper, Richard Morgan, Olga Dolgetty, Harry Davison
October 22-24: National Light Opera Company: Lilac Domino, with Vera Christie, William
Dickie, Joan Wood, June Lynette, C Denier Warren, Roger Avon, Douglas Thomson, Kenneth
Macdonald, Julie Redman, David Byerley, Bernard Dudley, Henry Norton, Richard Morgan
October 25-27: National Light Opera Company: Merrie England, with Joan Wood, William
Dickie, Kenneth Macdonald, C Denier Warren, Vera Christie, Douglas Thomson, Roger
Avon
October 29-November 3: Pygmalion, with Margaret Lockwood, Laurence Hardy, Charles
Victor, R Stuart Lindsell, Beatrice Varley, Gladys Boot, Dorothy Reynolds, John Warner,
Gillian Howell, Mary Walklett
November 5-10: Annie Get your Gun, with Peggy Powell, Arthur Clarke, William Thomson,
Peter Owen, Frank Crane, Winifred Braemar, Leonora Walsh, Roy Byfield-Riches, Henry
Wright, Arthur Logan
November 12-17: International Ballet: Swan Lake, Coppelia, Capriccio Espagnol, Giselle,
For Love or Money, Visions, Gaiete Parisienne, with Mona Inglesby, Ernest Hewitt,
conductor Anthony Baines
November 19-December 15: King’s Rhapsody, with Jack Buchanan, Marie Burke, Sylvia
Cecil, Barbara Leigh, Muriel Barron, Harry Fergusson, John Palmer, Lewis Henry, Edgar
Elmes, Tom Gillis, Peggy Rowan, Alexander Fisk, Sheila Holt, Huia Mase
December 22-March 1: Red Riding Hood, with Leo Franklyn, Billy Danvers, Paula Marshall,
Doreen Lavender, Hugh Lloyd, Sylvia Vowels, Johnnie Shaw, Bert Platt, Bill Futter,
Eddie Gordon and Nancy, Olivia Phillips, Josephine Evans, Anna Marinova, J W Jackson
Girls, Peggy Barnes Children
1952
March 3-8: The Belle of New York, with Norman Griffin, Mary Meredith, Eve Eacott,
Gavin Doyle, Ronald Marsh, Phyllis Baker, Jill Day, Anthony Dawes, Cecil Wayne, Carole
Godfrey, Anthony Gordon, Pauline Gaye, Millar Wilson
March 10-15: London Festival Ballet: Symphonic Impressions, Swan Lake, Don Quixote
grand pas de deux, Prince Igor, Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Pas de Quatre,
Scheherazade, Petrouchka, Le Beau Danube, Concerto Grosso en Ballet, The Black Swan
grand pas de deux, The Nutcracker, Bolero, with Natalie Krassovska, Belinda Wright,
Anton Dolin, John Gilpin, Tamara Toumanova, Oleg Briansky, Anita Landa, Daphne Dale,
Vassilie Trunoff, Noel Rossana, Audrey Harman, Joan Potter, Louis Godfrey, Sonia
Arova, Monica Leigh, Keith Beckett, Bryan Balkwill
March 17-22: Treasure on Pelican, with Anne Crawford, Basil Sydney, Lloyd Pearson,
Ruth Lodge, Eileen Beldon, Anthony Sharp, Hal Osmond, John Hayter, Angus Mackay
March 24-April 5: Kiss me, Kate, with Christopher Hewett, Elizabeth Larner, Lionel
Blair, Joyce Blair, Peter Bentley, Ellis Jackson, Norman Scace, Sydney Arnold, Buster
St George, Stanley Vilven
April 7-26: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Peter Pratt, Ann
Drummond-Grant, Leonard Osborn, Darrell Fancourt, Anne Stone, Shirley Hall, Muriel
Harding, Fisher Morgan, Eric Thornton, Alan Styler, Donald Adams, Lois Elaine, Joyce
Wright, Frederick Sinden, Isidore Godfrey
April 28-May 3: Look In, with Naunton Wayne, Alfred Marks, Julie Andrews, Paddy O’Neil,
Ossie Noble, Four Fredianis, Sherman Fisher Girls
May 5-10: Dick Whittington and his Cat on Ice, with Jean Craven, Dennis Arnold, Joan
Lucas, Joyce Marsh, Johnny Ladd, Ken Swan, Delia and Rosa Montreal, Iris Shawyer,
Alan James, Pam Smith, Don Stewart, Jack Vincent, Jan Kemp, Kirby’s Flying Ballet
May 12-24: King’s Rhapsody, with Barry Sinclair, Marie Burke, Sylvia Cecil, Elizabeth
French, Barbara Leigh
May 26-31: Mum! Mum! You can’t Help Laughing, with “Monsewer” Eddie Gray, Arthur
English, Peggy Powell, Butlin American Square Dancers, Two Playboys, Viking Trio
and Charmain, Brian Kent, Cycling Astons, 12 Eileen Rogan Girls
June 2-7: Tessie O’Shea, Leslie Welch, Morton Fraser’s Harmonica Gang, George Martin,
Benson Dulay, Matt Nixon and June Dixon, Richards Sisters
June 9-14: Happy-go-Lucky, with Derek Roy, Eve Boswell, Three Falcons, Downey and
Daye, 12 Florence Whiteley Girls
June 16-21: Kalanag and Gloria and company, Danny Gray
June 23-July 5: Katherine Dunham, Lenwood Morris, Lucille Ellis, Vanoye Aikens, Wilbert
Bradley, Julie Robinson, Frances Taylor, Jacqueline Walcott, Bernardo Noriega
July 7-12: Gwen Liddle and Billy Cheshire, Anton Karas, Wilson, Keppel and Betty,
Billy Russell, Leslie Randall, Niberco Brothers, Rex and Bessie, Skating Sayers,
Bobby Dennis
July 14-19: Josef Locke and Will Fyffe Junior, Mills and Belita, Helga Barry, Archie
Glen, Dumarte and Denzer, Claude Chandler, Los Grecos, Chevalier Brothers
July 21-26: Meet the Gang, with Ralph Reader, Fred Stone, Clifford Henry, Rex Jameson,
Denis Brothers, Kirby and Hayes, Richard Gilbert, Bryan Bradley, Roger Avon, Anthony
Gill, David Main, Keith Leggett, June Gouldsmith, Eight Troubadours, The 16 Girl
Friends, The 16 Boy Friends
July 28-August 2: Magic Spectacle, with John Calvert, Ann Cornell
August 4-9: Stars of Radio Times, with Max Wall, Dick James, Beryl Reid, Hedley Ward
Trio, Sherman Fisher Girls, Cawalini’s Dogs, Page Puppets
August 11-16: Frankie Howerd, Blanche Moore, Max Geldray, Marcia Owen, Roger Carne,
Curzons, Lee Young and Annette, Lester Sharpe, Krandon and Karna
August 18-23: Al Read, Mary Naylor, Eddie Gordon and Nancy, St Denis Brothers and
Beryl, Lionel King, Hal Mack and his Dancing Demons, Tommy Mitchell, Allen and Lee,
Johnson Clark
August 25-30: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, Alan Breeze, Clem Bernard,
Peter Williams; Claude Williams, Senor Don Felipe Marino, Hamilton Twins, Richman
and Jackson, Two Angelos, Kent Brothers
September 1-6: A Spot of Trouble, with Laurel and Hardy, Kenneth Henry, Leslie Spurling;
The Great Cingalee, Archie Elray and company, Aerial Kenways, Jimmy Elliott, McKenzie
Reid and Dorothy, Lonsdale Sisters, Lorraine
September 8-27: Carousel, with Edmund Hockridge, Helen Landis, Charles Mortimer,
William Thorburn, Bernard Quinn, Wendy Houseman, Jane Martin, Beryl Foley, Marion
Marshall, Rosemary Steer, Jean Lanceman, Katherine Feather, Julian Clifford
September 29-October 4: The Maid of the Mountains, with Margaret Burton, Eric Thornton,
Ward Williams, David Davenport, Tony Lenon, Jane Hilary, Frederick Morant, George
Lowndes, Arthur Wynne, Brian Matthews, Sonny Jenks, Diane Stuart, Hilton Layland,
Roy Reeve, Doreen Holland, Gwyneth Stuart, Raymond Wayne
October 6-11: Italian Opera: The Barber of Seville, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme,
with Renato Cesari, Carlo Badioli, Hugo Novelli, Carlo Zampighi, Dora Gatta, Giuseppe
Savio, Kyra Vayne, Antonio Manca Serra, Vittorio Pandano, Cuisa Malagrida, Piero
Miranda Ferraro, Maria Teresa Mandalari, Guido Pasella, Iginio Ricco, Magda Olivero
October 13-18: Donald Peers, Don Phillips, Freddie Sales, Donald B Stuart, MacDonald
and Graham, La Celeste, Three Harrys, Hal and Val Lennon, Cyclo Brothers, Jenny Hayes
October 20-25: Rhythm is our Business, with Winifred Atwell, Jimmy Wheeler, Jack
Jackson, Three Monarchs, Tony Fayne and David Evans, Ray and Madge Lamar, Ted and
George Durante, Peter Raynor
October 27-November 1: The Blue Lamp, with Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Gordon Harker,
Arthur Rigby, Edwin Richfield, Peter Byrne, Hugh Metcalfe, Valerie Forrest, Natalie
Kent, John Stone, Warren Mitchell, Linda Bacon, Anthony Sheppard, Freddie Owen, Moira
Mannion, Coral Fairweather, Golda Casimir
November 4-8: This is Show Business, with Vic Oliver, Victor Seaforth, Sylvia Campbell,
Maureen Power, Les Rayner and Betty, Eileen Rae, Andy McFarlane, Barrie Gosney, Llewellyn
John, Seaton and O’Dell, Ernie Brooks, Jack Walker, Janice Patrick, Joan Grahame,
Barbara Porritt, Audrey Smith
November 10-15: International Ballet: The Sleeping Princess, Swan Lake, Coppelia,
Giselle, Capriccio Espagnol, with Mona Inglesby, Ernest Hewitt, Herida May, Algeranoff,
John Healy, Nita Howard, Jeanette Minty, Joyce Gearing, Ena Baguley
November 17-22: Gay’s the Word, with Cicely Courtneidge, Thorley Walters, Doreen
Duke, Maidie Andrews, Beryl Harrison, Frank Forsyth, Denis Val Norton, Molly Lumley,
Iris Tully, Emerton Court, May Tomlin, Dunstan Hart, John Wynyard, Margot Bryant,
John Vernon, Robert Probst
November 24-29: Brigadoon, with Peter Vernon, Denise Walker, Stella Moray, Philip
Dale, James McKenna, Keith Shepherd, Leon Czerney, Ursula Fincham, Mary Ross, John
Talbot, Douglas Ward, Arthur Jordan
December 2-13: The Glorious Days, with Anna Neagle, Peter Graves, Patrick Holt, James
Carney, Olaf Olsen, Lesley Osmond, Myrette Morven, J Hubert Leslie, Edwin Ellis,
Albert Chevalier, Julia Hand, Janet Barrow, Michael Anthony, Robert Algar, Christina
Lubicz, Harry Acres
December 15-20: Blue for a Boy, with Bert Brownbill, Beryl Seton, Billy Milton, Marten
Tiffen, Joan Emney, Leonora Walsh, Deidre Williams, Bertram Blackwell, Emile Littler
Deauville Beauties
December 24-March 7: Sleeping Beauty, with George Gee, Phil Strickland, Bert Murray,
Eve Lister, Isobel Marden, Bert and Roy Lever, Maureen Bergen, Wendy Brandon, Ronald
Lawrie, Robert McQueen, Balmoral Six, J W Jackson Girls, Lyemun Juveniles, Four
Richys
1953
March 10-14: The White Carnation, with Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Campbell
Singer, John Boxer, Frederick Piper, Colin Gordon, Harcourt Williams, Ann Wilton,
Lockwood West, Meg Maxwell, Gillian Howell, Michael Nightingale, Peter Wigzell, Frances
Clare, Edith Savile, Kenneth Edwards
March 16-21: The Gay Dog, with Wilfred Pickles, Nuna Davey, Kenneth Haigh, Peggy
Fame, Jennifer Gray, Douglas Ives, Gilbert Harrison, Alfred Hyslop, Elizabeth Howarth,
Gillian Lutyens, John Bennett, Gerald Welch
March 23-28: Over the Moon, with Cicely Courtneidge, Thorley Walters, Peter Haddon,
Aud Johansen, Peter Felgate, Eunice Gayson, Bob Probst and his Orchestra
March 30-April 4: Relative Values, with Gladys Cooper, Mona Washbourne, Richard Leech,
Glen Alyn, Simon Lack, Peter Gray, Donald Finlay, Renee Hill, Gordon Tanner, Dorothy
Batley
April 6-11: Peter Pan, with Brenda Bruce, James Donald, Hilary Rennie, Violet Coleman,
Gordon Murray, Pearl Gaden, Kenneth Williams, Russell Thorndike, Wilfred Downing,
Wendy Cramp, Eric Carr, Jane Wren
April 13-18: The Uninvited Guest, with John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Cathleen Nesbitt,
Clive Morton, Lyndon Brook
April 20-May 9: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Peter Pratt,
Ivor Evans, Neville Griffiths, Fisher Morgan, Ann Drummond-Grant, Herbert Newby,
Alan Styler, Donald Adams, John Reed, Leonard Osborn, Muriel Harding, Joyce Wright,
Isidore Godfrey, William Cox-Ife
May 11-16: Wild Horses, with Robertson Hare, Ralph Lynn, Joan Haythorne, Constance
Lorne, Pat Keevney, Terence Brook, Ruth Maitland, Cyril Smith, Dodd Mehan, Bernard
Merefield
May 19-23: Guys and Dolls, with Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene, Jerry Wayne, Lizbeth Webb,
Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Tom Pedi, Lew Herbert, Ernest Butcher, Colleen Clifford,
Joyce Blair, Robert Cawdron, Danny Green, Lou Jacobi, Robert Arden, George Margo,
John Heawood, Edward Devereaux, Philip Green
May 25-30: Disc Toppers, with Jack Hilliard, Radio Revellers, Tony Fayne and David
Evans, Wilson, Keppel and Betty, Mundy and Earle, Four Nordics, Jill, Jill, Jill,
Billy Baxter
June 1-6: Rose Murphy (the Chee-Chee Girl), Tommy Jover and company, Johnny Matson,
Arthur Worsley and “Charlie Brown”, Four Fredianis, Maisie and Mumford’s Puppet Parade,
Mavis Whyte, Nat Hope, Olga Varona
June 8-13: Cap and Belles, with Max Wall, Julie Andrews, Freddie Frinton, Hedley
Ward Trio, Joan Mann, Downey and Daye, Les Ballet Girls
June 15-20: Frank Sinatra, Billy Ternent and his Orchestra, Eva Beynon, Johnnie Webb,
George Martin, Three Rethlems, Dennis Brothers and June, Freddie Harris and Christine
June 22-27: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: The Barber of Seville, La Traviata, Tosca,
The Marriage of Figaro, Madame Butterfly, with Gerald Davies, John Hargreaves, Marion
Studholme, George James, Stanley Clarkson, Cecil Lloyd, Olwen Price, John Harvey,
William Davies, Ivor Ingham, Charles Draper, Rowland Jones, Frederick Sharp, Oreste
Kirkop, Victoria Sladen, Roderick Jones, John Faasen, Arnold Matters, Joan Stuart,
Anna Pollak, Marjorie Shirley, Victoria Elliott, Robert Thomas, Rhys Williams
June 29-July 4: Jean Sablon, Emil Stern, Jack “Hubert” Watson, Iris Sadler, Myrons,
Rey Overbury and Suzette, George Meaton, Three Buffoons, Williams and Shand
July 6-11: Henry Hall’s Guest Night, with Henry Hall, Tommy Cooper, Mike Hall, Elton
Hayes, Leslie Henson, Sally Barnes, Lucille Graham, Bobby Beaumont, Albert Marland,
Peter Glover and Ena Bagulay, Stephanie Dane, Anne Rogers, Norma Elliott
July 13-18: The Vancouver Boys Band, Alfred Marks, Tessa Smalpage, Chan Canasta,
Chic and Candy Ross, Merry Micks, Nicol and Kemble, Dawn White and her Glamazons
July 20-25: All Laughter Variety Show, with Norman Evans, Betty Jumel, Vic and Joe
Crastonian, Bil and Bil, Jackie Trevor, Swan and Leigh, 12 Tiller Girls, Cyclo Brothers
July 27-August 1: Billy Daniels and Benny Payne, Stan Stennett, Freddie Bamberger
and Pam, Dick and Dot Remy, Walthon and Dorraine, Fred Lovelle, Dancing Duvals
August 3-8: “Confidentially” Reg Dixon, Maurice Arnold, Hutch (Leslie A Hutchinson),
Ruby and Charles Wlaat, Hal and Winnie Mack, Krista and Kristel, Len Marten, Ronnie
Leslie, Nadias
August 10-15: Happy Times, with “Mr Pastry” Richard Hearne, Ali Bey, Alma Cogan,
George Martin, Guy Fane, Hazel Holland, Volants, Norma Volant, Marie de Vere Dancers
August 17-22: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, Alan Breeze, Doreen
Stephens, Clem Bernard, Les Ward, Will Carr and Partner, Conway and Day, Claud “Medals”
Williams, Harry Benet, Briton and his West End Lovelies
August 24-29: Educating Archie, with Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Ronald Chesney
and his “Talking Harmonica”, Mary Naylor, Ossie Noble, Peter Madden, Edward Victor,
Les Raynor and Betty, Kandy Twins and Eddie
August 31-September 5: The Sleeping Beauty on Ice, with Beryl Bailey, Dennis Arnold,
Roy Deeley, John Baskcomb, Patricia Scott, Pamela Smith, Sheila Teasdale, Derrick
Whittingham, Jackie Vincent
September 7-12: Lee Lawrence, Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye, Douglas “Cardew” Robinson,
Vic Gordon and Peter Colville, Ekins Sisters, Raydini, Marenis
September 14-19: Al Read - Right Monkey!, with Al Read, Margerite and Charles, Margo
Henderson and Sam Kemp, Eddie Gordon and Nancy, Anne and Bobbie Black, Allen and
Lee, Prince Austral, Les Traversos
September 21-26: Ronnie Ronalde, Steffani, Falcons, Bob Andrews, Benson Dulay and
company, Hackford and Doyle, Curzons, Schichtl-Rulyans Marionettes, The Amazing Robots,
Rudge Trio
September 28-October 10: Oklahoma!, with Ray Buckingham, Jennie Gregson, Tony Steedman,
Robert Crane, Barbara Ann Rogers, Gordon Humphris, Billie Love, Jack Rainer, Frank
Lasslett, Vic Wise, Laura Hedley, Eileen French, Monica Brent, Diana Field, Rita
Kingsley, Pamela Barton, Alexander Morrow, Georgina Rourke, Richard Dunn, Anthony
Coppock, Fred Dixon, Harold Fletcher, Oenone Talbot, Toni Repetski, Robert Lowe
October 12-17: Seagulls over Sorrento, with Ronald Shiner, Barry Keegan, Barry Letts,
John Garley, Ronald Radd, Ralph Wilson, Gerald Harper, William Glover, Michael Lees
October 19-25: The Little Hut, with Hugh Sinclair, Diane Hart, David Tomlinson, Geoffrey
Toone, Leslie Le Roy
October 26-31: The Quaker Girl, with Betty Leslie, Sonny Jenks, Peter Croft, Anne
England, Janice Patrick, George Wilder, Olga Lowe, Eric Thornton, Hilton Layland,
Enid Lowe
November 3-21: South Pacific, with Patricia Hartley, Nevil Whiting, Chick Alexander,
Helen Landis, John Orchard, Eddie Leslie, Paul Dobson, Shirley Emery, Patricia Holloway,
John Scott, Raymond Pavett, Sean Connery, Chin Yu, David Williams, Abe Ellis, Stanley
Beard, June Phillips, Robert Henderson, Franklin Fox, Charles Prentice
November 23-December 5: Zip Goes a Million, with Roy Barbour, Odette Field, Brian
Alexis, Robin Ford, Barbara Evans, Elaine Montgomerie, Cyril Renison, Sidney Pointer,
David Gilbert, Frank Crane, Woolfe Woodcock, Arthur Logan
December 7-12: London Festival Ballet: Alice in Wonderland, Les Sylphides, Swan Lake
Act I, Swan Lake II Grand pas de deux, Prince Igor Polovtsian Dances, Le Beau Danube,
Don Quixote pas de deux, Vilia, Symphony for Fun, with Anton Dolin, Belinda Wright,
Anita Landa, Marina Svetlova, John Gilpin, Noel Rossana, Daphne Dale, Marilyn Burr,
Janet Overton, Jeanette Minty, Shelagh Franklin, Louis Godfrey, Keith Beckett, Wolfgang
Brunner, Peter Bosman, Michael Hogan, Peter White, Russell Kerr, Pamela Hart, Geoffrey
Corbett
December 21-February 27: Babes in the Wood, with Max Wall, Alfred Marks, Nita Croft,
Sally Bazley, Harry Simms, Carol Gold, Maureen Spooner, Patrick Hoey, Stanley Beedle,
Hengler Brothers, Josephine Bell, Peggie Allen, Dorothy Walker, Patricia Baker, 12
Terry Children, J W Jackson Girls, Betty Hobbs Globe Girls, Two Arvings, Eugene’s
Flying Ballet, Sherwood Singers
1954
March 1-6: Affairs of State, with Coral Browne, Hugh Williams, Austin Melford, David
Tearle, Peggy Simpson, Austin Trevor
March 9-27: Rose Marie on Ice, with Pamela Gaye, Jo Ann Lee, Don McKnight, Colin
Martin, Howard Knight, Gladys Mason, Jack Harnett, Peter Klive, Reginald de Havilland,
Hamilton Brown, Barbara Barry, Fred Gommer’s Maple Leaf Choir
March 29-April 3: After the Ball, with Mary Ellis, Vanessa Lee, Peter Graves, Tom
Gill, Irene Browne, Leslie Pearson, Donald Scott, Betty Felstead, Anna Halinka, Ailsa
Gamley, Shamus Locke, Raymond Savigear, Andrew Sachs, Graham Payn, Lois Green, Pam
Marmont, Dennis Bowen, Margaret Gibson, Marion Grimaldi, Pat Cree, Maureen Quinney,
Silvia Beamish, Bill Horsley
April 5-10: Escapade, with Barry Sinclair, Joyce Heron, John Longden, Frank Tregear,
Marjorie Battiss, John Ireland, Timothy Harley, Grenville Eves, Rowland Marsh, Robert
Ash, Gladys Bacon, Paula Taylor
April 12-17: Reluctant Heroes, with John Slater, Bernard Fox, John Chapman, Michael
Earl, Timothy Heale, Martin Bradley, William Douglas, John Arm, Shirley Bush, Betty
Impey, Deirdre Day
April 19-24: And So to Bed, with Arthur Riscoe, Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler, Barbara
Shotter, Colin Hickman, Kenneth Collinson, David Sharpe, Mostyn Evans, Richard Curnock,
Gwen Nelson, Hazel Jennings, Joy Mornay
April 26-May 15: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, Donald Adams,
Peter Pratt, Ann Drummond-Grant, Neville Griffiths, Fisher Morgan, Leonard Osborn,
John Reed, Alan Styler, Herbert Newby, Isidore Godfrey, William Cox-Ife
May 17-22: Pygmalion, with Kay Hammond, John Clements, Nicholas Hannen, Charles Victor,
Athene Seyler, Phyllis Relph, Clare Bradley, Robert Beaumont, Nuna Davey, Joan Forrest,
John Rudling, Patrick Brawn
May 24-29: “Anna Lucasta”, with Isabelle Cooley, Ken Freeman, Richard Ward, Dan Jackson,
Rita Stevens, Reggie Fenderson, Sheila Chong, Lance Taylor
May 31-June 5: It’s a Good Idea, Son, with Max Bygraves, Bob Dixon, Authors and Swinson,
Joan Winters and Guy Fielding, Merle and Marie, Tattersall
June 7-19: Winter Wonderland, with Heather Belbin, Andre Calame, Inge Feurich, Margaret
Bessell, Desmond Scott, Jan Koegler, Jim Balla, Wlat Petz, The Oxfords
June 21-26: Variety Playhouse, with Vic Oliver, Bob and Alf Pearson, Kitty Bluett,
Sylvia Campbell, Pierre Bel, Clifford Stanton, McAndrews and Mills, Lewis Henry,
Ernie Brooks, Jack Walker
June 28-July 3: The Norman Evans Show, with Norman Evans, Betty Jumel, Five Skyliners,
Victor Seaforth, 12 John Tiller Girls, Johnny and Suma Lamonte, Bil and Bil
July 5-10: Dickie Valentine, Don Phillips, Charles Warren and Jean, Three Hellos,
Albert Sturm, Duncan’s Collies, Shipway Twins, Richman and Jackson, Clayton and Ward
July 12-17: Josef Locke, Ernest Broadbent, Harry Worth, Joe Black, Valettos, Des
O’Connor, June Birch, Allen Brothers and June, Pan Yue Jen Troupe
July 19-24: Teddy Johnson and Ernie Bragg, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, Pearl
Carr, Max Geldray, Two Angelos, Mills and Melita, Lester Sharpe and Iris
July 26-31: Have a Go, with Wilfred Pickles, Joe Church, Alain Diagora and Partner,
Two Sterlings, Fred Atkins, Peggy Desmond, Eddie Gordon and Nancy
August 2-7: The Beverley Sisters, Bonar Colleano, Tommy Reilly, Shane and Lamar,
Nixon and Dixon, Keefe Brothers and Annette, Manning and Lea
August 9-14: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, Alan Breeze, Doreen Stephens,
Clem Bernard, Grisha Farfel, Bill Waddington, Nennette Mongador and Anne, Eddie Arnold,
Rex and Bessie, Jo, Jac and Joni
August 16-21: Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Ronald Chesney, Ossie Noble, Kandy
Sisters and Eddie, Edward Victor, Les Rayner and Betty, Peter Madden, Jimmy Gilmore,
Michael Mitchell
August 23-28: Rhythm is their Business, with Lita Roza, Tony Fayne and David Evans,
Max Bacon, Bill Wareham and Barbara, Dennis Brothers and June, Arthur Haynes, Dargie
Quintet, Darly’s Dogs, Conn Bernard
August 30-September 4: Meet Mr Kalanag, with Kalanag, Gloria de Vos, Robby Gay, Kalanag
Girls
September 6-11: Al Martino, Bobbie Kimber and “Augustus Peabody”, Lizzet and Eddie,
Iris Sadler, Jean and Joy Bentley, Curzon Trio, Two Mazurs
September 13-18: Max Miller, Pharos and Marina, Tessa Smalpage, Paul and Peta Page,
Billy Baxter, Crotchet, Three Spillanes, Bunty St Clair, Charles Camereri
September 20-25: Knights of Madness, with “Monsewer” Eddie Gray, Arthur English,
Dave and Joe O’Gorman, Willie Carlisle, Maggie Graham, Yvonne Prestige, Ronnie Collis,
Jan Lavski and Margarita Tate, George Sylvester
September 27-October 2: Italian Opera: La Boheme, Elisir D’Amore, Il Trovatore, Manon,
La Traviata, with Margherita Carosio, Ermanno Lorenzi, Guido Mazzini, Arturo la Porta,
Edgardo di Stasio, Marcella de Grandis, Ezio Boschi, Carlo Zampighi, Jeda Valtriana,
Maria Teresa Bertasi, Kyra Vane, Paola Stacchini, Giulio Mastrangelo, Pier Miranda
Ferraro
October 4-9: Vic Templar and Della Sweetman’s Sinbad the Sailor on Ice, with Eileen
Desmond, Eric Plant, Bobby Nunne, Wendy Briggs, Alan James, Elaine Skevington, Peter
Hardy, Ann Davis, Rosa Montreal
October 11-16: The Benny Hill Show, with Benny Hill, Virginia Somers, Jerry Allen
and his Trio, Jeremy Hawk, Kirby and Hayes, Four Helmars, Tux and his Flying Kitchen,
Ten Marie de Vere Dancers
October 18-23: Star Time, with Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, Sally Barnes, Audrey
Mann, Paul Bacchus, Yolandas, 24 Corps de Ballet, Piano Fantasia, Hollywood Presents
on Cinemascope
October 25-30: The Belle of New York, with Eddie Childs, Vera Christie, Gwyneth Lascelles,
Norman Griffin, Ronald Marsh, Phyllis Baker, Warwick Ashton, Beryl Seton, Pauline
Gaye, Bernard Dudley, Donald Carson, Anthony Gordon, Thea Muhler, Robert Gill, Al
Parker, Howard Sylvester
November 1-6: The Moon is Blue, with Frank Leighton, Andrée Melly, Anthony Oliver,
George Street
November 8-13: The Desert Song, with John Hanson, Clifford Mollison, Hilda Dixon,
Arthur Jordan, John Huntington, Norman Edwards, William Jewell, Violet Nicholls,
Wanda Balcon, Norman Gay, Charles Travers, Fred Dent, Stella Kemball, Molly Calow,
Wallace Court, Hilda Campbell-Russell, Robert Hughes
November 15-20: The Little Glass Clock, with Kay Hammond, John Clements, Basil Sydney,
George Relph, George Curzon, Robert Beaumont, Clare Bradley, Howieson Culff, Andrew
Laurence, Patrick Barton
November 22-27: Sadler’s Wells Ballet: Les Sylphides, The Firebird, The Three-Cornered
Hat, Coppelia, Ballet Imperial, Façade, with Margot Fonteyn, Rosemary Lindsay, Frederick
Ashton, Desmond Doyle, Svetlana Beriosova, Philip Chatfield, Nadia Nerina, Alexander
Grant, Violetta Elvin, Rowena Jackson, Michael Somes, John Field, John Hart, Alexis
Rassine, Brian Shaw, Pauline Clayden, Margaret Dale, Julian Farron, Anne Heaton,
David Blair, John Hollingsworth, Robert Irving
November 29-December 4: Guy Mitchell, Joe Antman, George Mitchell Singers, Hylda
Baker, Walter Niblo, Harry and Betty, Two Arvings, Rio, Ron and Rita, Vera Cody
December 6-11: Vienna Operetta: The Merry Widow, Vienna Blood, with Fritz Imhoff,
Erika Feichtinger, Otto Falvay, Christine von Widmann, Karl Friedrich, Fred Kypta,
Karl Frey, Carl Hernbach, Fritz Diestel, Willy Scherdeck, Augusta Ripper; Dia-Lucca
Ballet, with Grete Sellier, Harald Horn
December 13-18: The Duchess and the Smugs, with Martita Hunt, Hugh Wakefield, Michael
Gwynn, Anthony Valentine, Caroline Denzil, Gordon Bell, Isabel Dean, William Parkinson,
Elizabeth Kentish, Dudy Nimmo, Susan Dallison
December 24-February 26: Cinderella, with Jack Train, Adele Dixon, Joan Burden, Dave
and Joe O’Gorman, Betty Sagon, Jimmy Plant, Jean O’Neill, Peter Morrell, Wilson,
Keppel and Betty, Caroline Foster, Angela Scott, Lynton Boys, J W Jackson Girls,
Molly Lake Ballet, Muriel Carpenter’s Bristol Children
1955
February 28-March 5: Wild Violets, with Bristol Musical Comedy Club
March 7-12: I am a Camera, with Moira Shearer, Michael Gwynn, Marianne Deeming, Anton
Diffring, Suzanne Bandler, John Gale, Everley Gregg
March 14-19: Uncertain Joy, with Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Marda Vanne, Noel Howlett,
Richard Leech, Michael Brooke, Jean Taylor-Smith, Margaret Whiting, Robert Raglan
March 21-26: Ruby Murray, David Berglas, Harry Worth, Morecambe and Wise, Jimmy Wheeler,
Norman Vaughan, Jackson, Bow and Darnell, Vera Cody and her Wonder Horse, Kenways
March 28-April 2: The Max Wall Show, with Max Wall, Roger Carne, Joan Mann, Ken-Tones,
Benson Dulay, Kelroys, Peter Dulay, Marie de Vere Trio
April 3: Eileen Joyce
April 4-7, 9: Witness for the Prosecution, with Betty Ann Davies, William Mervyn,
Derek Blomfield, Russell Napier, Lionel Gadsden, Milton Rosmer, Gillian Raine, Richard
Coke, David Raven
April 11-16: Peter Pan, with Barbara Kelly, Patricia Marmont, Richard Wordsworth,
Peter Collingwood, Dorothy Bromiley, Eric Carr, Russell Thorndike, William Ingram,
Jane Wren, Brian Leslie, Richard Ives, Jean Elvin
April 18-23: The Lovers, with Sam Wanamaker, Helen Haye, Eva Bartok, Kynaston Reeves,
Peter Copley, Constance Wake, Brian Oulton
April 25-30: My Three Angels, with Ronald Shiner, Nigel Stock, George Rose, Jane
Aird, Patience Collier, Elvi Hale, Peter Barkworth, Hugh Manning, Clifford Elkin,
Cyril Luckham, Pamela Frost
May 2-7: Joy of Living, with Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, John Trevor, Jocelyne
Rhodes, George Lee, Roma Denville, Cicely Walper, Richard Butler, Ann Stutfield,
Diane Bester
May 9-14: Murder at the Vicarage, with John Stone, Yootha Joyce, Jane Comfort, Anne
Iddon, J Grant Anderson, Heather Canning, John Stuart, Spence Coulter, Hermione Gregory,
Winifred Braemar, Douglas Quayle, Harry Hancock, David Sculpher
May 16-21: Wedding in Paris, with Evelyn Laye, Francis Lederer, Joan Emney, Patricia
Bredin, Patrick Connor, Jeff Warren, Vera Lennox, John Marquand, Maybelle Oaks, Chester
Gordon
May 23-28: Don Cornell, Jerry Carretta, Morton Fraser’s Harmonica Gang, Dickie Dawson,
Fran Dowie and Candy Kane, Lou Campara, Jean and Joy Bentley, Falcons
May 30-June 4: Dickie Valentine, Don Phillips, Harry Bailey, Paul and Peta Page,
Walthon and Dorraine, Johnny Lacock and Maureen, Bill and Babs Adams, Ken and Anna
Alexis
June 6-11: Billy Eckstine, Johnny Lockwood, Allen Brothers and June, Joe and Kay
Stuthard, Marie de Vere’s Ballet Montmartre, The Dernos, Bernard Spear, De Vel and
Partner
June 13-18: Ring Out the Bells, with “Monsewer” Eddie Gray, Arthur English, Lauri
Lupino Lane, George Truzzi, George Clarkson and Gail Leslie, John English, Bonnie
Downs, Regency Singers
June 20-July 2: Pardon my French! - Folies Bergere Revue, with Vic Oliver, Tih-Boult,
Sylvia Campbell, Rayne, Nemel and Violet, Leslie Julian Jones
July 4-9: Jimmy Young, Jack Jackson, Brian Reece, Max and Harry Nesbitt, Syd and
Paul Kaye, Quaino, Pat Rosa, Two Sterlings
July 11-16: Room for Two, with Terry-Thomas, Maria Pavlou, Don Saunders, Tommy Reilly,
Two Pirates, Six Lyn Bahrys, Ruby and Charles Wlaat and their Comedian Dog
July 18-23: Syd Seymour and his Jazz-Mad Hatters Band Show, Constance Evans, Gerry
Grant, Eric Barker, Maudie Edwards, Milton Woodward’s Wonder Bar and Millicent Cooper,
Billy Revel and Pat Fields, Riki Lingana and Diane, Fairlie and Stevens, Vogelbein’s
Bears, Two Volandas
July 25-30: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: Die Fledermaus, Faust, La Boheme, Don Pasquale,
with Patricia Bartlett, June Bronhill, Helen Hillier, Patricia Howard, Sheila Rex,
Marjorie Shires, Joan Stuart, Marion Studholme, Patricia Johnson, Anna Pollak, Olwen
Price, Elisabeth Robinson, Gerald Davies, Rowland Jones, Gwent Lewis, Thomas Round,
Robert Thomas, Denis Dowling, Peter Glossop, John Hargreaves, Alfred Orda, John Probyn,
Frederick Sharp, Harold Blackburn, Owen Brannigan, Stanley Clarkson, David Ward,
Howell Glynne, Rhys Williams, Gavin Gordon, Leo Quayle
August 1-6: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, Alan Breeze, Doreen Stephens,
Lowe and Ladd, Mallini Brothers, Duncan’s Collies, Richman and Jackson, Mayfairs
August 8-13: Dennis Lotus, Peter Butterworth, Dargie Quintet, Earle and Vaughan,
Les Ricards, Sisto and Partner, Fred Atkins, Three Balmorals, Norman Murrells
August 15-20: Lester Ferguson, Stan Stennett, Gaston Palmer, Connor and Drake, Jimmy
Jeff and June, Terry Walsh Trio, Ballet Montparnasse
August 22-27: Ronnie Hilton, Will Fyffe Junior, Channing Pollock, Wilson, Keppel
and Betty, Ken Morris and Joan Savage, Billy Maxam, Joan Hinde, Granger Brothers,
Alan Kemble and Christine
August 29-September 3: George and Bert Bernard and George Pierce, Albert Burdon and
company, Salici Puppets, Fred Lovelle, The Marcies, Juggling Brauns, Jean and Joy
Bentley
September 5-10: The Goons, with Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Janet
Brown, Kendor Brothers, Max Geldray, Rih-Aruso, Three Buffoons
September 12-17: Off the Record, with Eddie Calvert, Jimmy James, Dick Carlton and
Bretton Woods, Eddie Parker and Julian Oakley, Jeffrey Lenner, Paul Howard, Marie
de Vere’s Royal Command Girls, Hans Bela and Mary
September 19-24: London Festival Ballet: Swan Lake Act II, Petrouchka, Napoli, The
Nutcracker grand pas de deux, Prince Igor, Pas de Quatre, Les Sylphides, Scheherazade,
Harlequinade pas de deux, Symphony for Fun, Alice in Wonderland, with Marilyn Burr,
Anton Dolin, Keith Beckett, Toni Lander
September 26-October 1: Al Read - Right Monkey!, Devine and King, Bill and Babs Adams,
Tattersall and “Jerry and company”, Ann and Bobbie Black, Bob and Marion Konyot,
McAndrews and Mills, Harry Allen
October 3-8: Guys and Dolls, with Roberta Huby, Edward Devereaux, William Thorburn,
Laurie Webb, Ronald Mayer, Barbara Logan, Darroll Richards, Noel Carey, Edwin Richfield,
John Citreon, Sheila Browning, Yvette Yorke, Stuart Reece, David Boyd, Thomas Gallagher,
Jimmy Ventham
October 10-29: White Horse Inn on Ice, with Jean Colquhoun, Pete Lawson, Neale Warrington,
Frieda Day, Erik Day, Eddie Ash, Noberti, Turner and Burke, George Mitchell Chorus,
Gordon Ritchie
October 31-November 12: Love from Judy, with Jillian Comber, Valerie Warren, Edna
Wynn, Sylvia Sutch, Heather Lee, Gwyneth Lascelles, Joan Ryan, Brian Faubert, David
Karry, Dennis Wood, Patricia McKechnie, Donald Clive, Ronald Barnes, Ida Shepley,
Pamela Beesley, Esme Robinson, James Ansley, Pauline Greta, Arthur Logan
November 14-26: Can-Can, with Freddie Sales, George Gee, Sally Rogers, Desmond Ainsworth,
Aleta Morrison, John Sinclair, Dennis Burrows, George Ballantine, Joy Adams, Iona
Macrae, Musette Holland, Frieda Knorr, John Bryans, Douglas Orr, K Behrens
November 28-December 3: Bristol’s Biggest Variety Bill of the Year, with Eve Boswell,
Gladys Morgan and company, Morecambe and Wise, Tony Fayne and David Evans, Randolph
Sutton, Ossie Morris, Bruce Forsyth, Francois and Zandra, Keefe Brothers and Annette
December 5-10: Reluctant Heroes, with Wally Patch, Tony Hilton, Michael Browning,
Andrew Sachs, William Douglas, Gilbert Harrison, Anthony Booth, Toby Perkins, Clemency
Davis, Doreen Erridge, Mara Reid
December 12-17: Intimate Relations, with Freda Jackson, Philip Morant, Ann Gudrun,
June Dawes, Jon Rollason
December 24-February 25: Mother Goose, with Ethel Revnell, Johnny Lockwood, Fay Lenore,
Bert Platt, Alison Davies, Flora Alberta, Dorothy Walker, Cycling Brockways, Peter
Allenby, Susan Wren, Elaine Montgomerie, Jack May, 12 J W Jackson Girls, Muriel Carpenter’s
Bristol children
1956
February 27-March 3: Oklahoma!, with Bristol Musical Comedy Club
March 6-10: Jubilee Girl, with Lizbeth Webb, George Benson, Marie Lohr, Irene Handl,
Fenella Fielding, Tom Criddle, Leslie Henson, Wendy Harcourt-Brown, Eileen Gourley,
Mary Montgomery, Charles Quintell, Betty Evans, Rusty Whitham
March 12-17: Bell, Book and Candle, with Kay Kendall, Robert Flemyng, Lloyd Pearson,
David Evans, Viola Lyel, Nan Williams, Brian Douglas
March 19-April 14: The King and I, with Peter Evans, Gerald Smith, Eve Lister, Thomas
Hare, James Appleby, George Pastell, Brian Douglas, Nan Williams, Helen Landis, Winston
MacCarthy, Pauline Knight
April 16-21: Charlie’s Aunt, with Frankie Howerd, Gerald Harper, A J Brown, Richard
Waring, Joy Rodgers, Wendy Williams, Charles Cullum, Wensley Pithey, Marjorie Stewart,
Jane Downs
April 23-28: Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet: Coppelia, Les Patineurs, House of Birds,
Pineapple Poll, Le Lac Des Cygnes Act II, The Rake’s Progress, Blue Bird pas de deux,
Les Rendezvous, with Sara Neil, Anne Heaton, Donald Britton, Doreen Tempest, Michael
Boulton, Margaret Hill, Miro Zolan, Brenda Bolton, Patricia Cox, Madeleine White,
Sandra Vane, Susan Alexander, Johaar Mosaval, Walter Trevor, David Shields, Donald
MacLeary, Dorinda Brown, Yvonne English, Bryan Lawrence, Alexander Bennett, Margaret
Knoesen, John Lanchbery
April 30-May 5: Ruby Murray, Chic Murray and Maidie, Tommy Fields, Johnny Stewart,
Bobby Limb, Delicados, Tommy Locky, Les Marthys, Ravic and Babs
May 7-12: “Mrs Willie”, with Yvonne Arnaud, Roger Maxwell, Hugh Manning, Michael
Nightingale, Diana Beaumont, Jeremy Burnham, James Sharkey, Isabel George, Gordon
Phillpott, Violet Coleman, Molly Francis
May 14-19: The Devil’s Disciple, with Tyrone Power, Clare Austin, Peter Collingwood,
John Scott, Betty Turner, John Gill, Nancy Nevinson, Lockwood West, John Gray, Noel
Willman, Joan MacArthur, Dorothy Bromiley, David Langton, James Bree, Stringer Davis
May 21-26: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with Lloyd Nolan, David Knight, Nigel
Stock, Robert Hardy, Peter Williams, Esmond Knight, Peter Dyneley, Alec McCowen,
Richard Newton, Martin Wyldeck, Vivian Matalon, Philip Keatley
May 28-June 9: The Dancing Years on Ice, with Luba Natova, Kevin Woods, Eileen Carey,
Joy Cannon, Iris Villiers, Sylvia Vowles, James Milner, Peter Marlowe, Gladys Ives
and Ron French, Anne Rogers, Michael Walker, Eddie Ward, Josie Cordrey, Dudley Carver,
Edgar Elmes, John Wiltshire, Harvards, Corps de Ballet, Maple Leaf Choir
June 11-16: The Gay Deceiver, with Rosamund John, Peter Graves, Bernadette Milnes,
Anthony Sharp, Appaline Yale, Gordon Cave, Rita Ball, Michael Anthony, Mary Yeomans
June 18-23: Lady be Good, with Sonnie Hale, Denny Bettis, Anton Rodgers, Margaret
Morne, Gay Leslie, Maureen Grant, Pauline Innes, Michael O’Connor, Helen Hurst, Ray
Hamilton, Val Worth, Betty Laine, Frederick Davies, Bobby Drage, Charleston Boys
and Girls
June 25-30: Daughter of Desire, with Janet Munro, Tony Harrison, Murray Kash, Christine
Adrian, Robert Hartley, Jennifer Gray, Peter Bartlett
July 2-7: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, The Bartered
Bride, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, La Boheme, with Joan Stuart, Olwen
Price, Joyce Blackham, Robert Thomas, Alfred Orda, Victoria Elliott, Ronald Dowd,
Thomas Round, John Hargreaves, Peter Glossop, Patricia Bartlett, Patricia Johnson,
Gwent Lewis, Owen Brannigan, David Ward, Marjorie Shires, Anna Pollak, Sheila Rex,
Denis Dowling, Rowland Jones, Frederick Sharp, John Probyn, Harold Blackburn, Patricia
Howard, Elizabeth Fretwell, William McAlpine, Marcus Dods, Alexander Gibson
July 9-14: The Inkspots with Bill Kenny, Scott Sanders, Joe Rankin, Joyce Golding
and Tony Stuart, Marion Dash and her Chimpanzees, Mickey Ung, Two Serences, Shane
and Lamar
July 16-28: London Old Vic Company: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, with Paul
Rogers, John Neville, Claire Bloom, Coral Browne, Denis Holmes, Jeremy Brett, Charles
Gray, Derek Francis, Jack Gwillim, Peter Needham, Ernest Hare, Ronald Allen, Aubrey
Morris, Richard Wordsworth, Wynne Clark, Job Stewart, Edward Harvey, John Greenwood,
John Woodvine, Margaret Courtenay, Jennifer Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Daniel Moynihan,
Peter Bowles, Alan Penn, Derek New, Bryan Pringle, James Villiers, Timothy Parkes,
Donald Homer
July 30-August 4: Billy Daniels and Benny Payne, Alan Clive, Joan Winters and Guy
Fielding, Kelroys, Stan White and “Miss Fortune”, Pat Rosa, Ann and Val Shelley
August 6-11: The Max Miller Show, with Max Miller, Nat Gonella, Margery Manners,
Freddie Harrison, Peter Crawford Trio, Susie and company and Reg Russell, McAndrews
and Mills
August 13-18: David Whitfield, Reg Warburton, Hedley Ward Trio, George Martin, Granger
Brothers, Frances Duncan, Kazan and Katz, Richman and Jackson
August 20-25: Too Young to Marry, with George Formby, Jillian Comber, Benita Lydal,
Sydney Arnold, Frederic Tomlin, Ursula Granville, Helen Ford, Richard Pescud, John
H Moore, Norman Gay
August 27-September 1: Mel Torme, Four Grads, Mereaux and Liliane, Freddie Bamberger
and Pam, De Vel and Partner, Armand Andrieu and his Budgerigars, The Dernos, Eddie
King and Joe Day
September 3-8: The Archie Andrews Comedy Show, with Peter Brough and Archie Andrews,
Jimmy Wheeler, Arthur Haynes, Ossie Noble, Ronald Chesney, Shirley Eaton, Les Rayner
and Betty
September 10-22: The Teahouse of the August Moon, with Bill Kerr, John Downing, Soroya
Rafat, Reginald Marsh, Michael Stainton, Albert Chevalier
September 24-October 6: Carl Rosa Opera Company: La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana,
Pagliacci, The Barber of Seville, Manon Lescaut, Il Trovatore, Faust, Tannhauser,
Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, The Tales of Hoffmann, with Gwen Catley, Pauline Allen,
Estelle Valery, Charles Craig, John Heddle Nash, Evan Thomas, Donald Campbell, Joyce
Goodwin, Basil Hemming, Stanislav Pieczora, Krystyna Granowska, Ruth Packer, Eduardo
Asquez, Ernest Thomas, Joseph Satariano, William Aitken, Glenice Halliday, Mona Ross,
Julia Boutell, George Chitty, Margaret Winkler, Sydney Cross, Edwin Jepps, Elizabeth
Naylor, Michael O’ Farrell, Arthur Hammond, Edward Renton, John Bell
October 8-13: The Golden Gate Quartet and Emel Burgess, Desmond Lane, Jeffrey Lenner,
Fran Dowie, Valento and Dorothy, Emerson and Jayne, Candy Kane and the Smokey Mountain
Boys, Danny Gray and June, Babette and Raoul
October 15-20: The Charlie Chester Show, with Charlie Chester, Marian Miller, Paul
and Peta Page, Len Lowe, Charlie’s man Jeeves, Patti Carol, Carol Monk, Bernard Bedford,
Norman McGlen, John Cartier, Leslie Roberts Television Dancers
October 22-27: Let’s have Fun, with Jimmy James, Kenny Baker, Janie Marden, Three
Deuces, Dennis Spicer and James Green, Trio Vedette, Joy Harris, Orchid Room Lovelies
October 29-November 3: London Festival Ballet: Les Sylphides, Coppelia, Homage to
a Princess, Pas de Quatre, Etudes, Swan Lake Act II, Bolero, The Nutcracker, with
Anton Dolin, Belinda Wright, John Gilpin, Tony Lander, Russell Kerr, Peter White,
Marilyn Burr, Kenneth Melville, Anita Landa, Janet Overton, Geoffrey Corbett, Jeannette
Minty
November 5-10: Lita Roza, Nat Jackley, Randolph Sutton and Brian Seymoure, Syd and
Max Harrison, Dawn White and her Glamazons and Burton Seeley, Two Kordas, Five Dallas
Boys, Les Traversos, Three Carribes, Sonnie Willis, Sammy Curtis, Dennis Murray
November 12-17: The Gipsy Baron, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 19-24: Joan Regan, Morecambe and Wise, Audrey Jeans, Jack Watson, Jack Francois,
Skylons, Rey and Ronjy, Ron Scott
November 26-December 1: The Water Gypsies, with Albert Grant, Valerie Lawson, Margo
Cunningham, Brian Kent, Margaret Hampton, Angela Kinman, Lorna Dean, Robert Glynne,
David Webb, Michael Dalton, Graham Jones, June Marsh, Donald Hill
December 3-8: José Greco and his Spanish Dancers - Lola de Ronda, Luis Olivares,
Rosario Caro, Norina, Ramon Valez, Pepita Sevilla, Miguel Garcia, Sami Martin, Manuela
de Jerez, Lydia Latske, Nila Amparo, Eulalika Uya, Pilar Parra, Angel Peralta, Jose-Luis
Vega, Angel de Rey
December 10-15: Bachelor Borne, with Cicely Courtneidge, Robertson Hare, Naunton
Wayne, Margaret McCourt, Viola Lyel, Anna Turner, Jill Raymond, Warren Stanhope
December 24-February 23: Jack and the Beanstalk, with Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss,
Bob and Marion Konyot, Jack Hayes, Fred Kitchen, Mildred Mayne, Alison Davies, Reginald
Jessup, John East, Maureen Corp, Julia Williams, Barrie Craine, Ten Sherman Fisher
Girls, Gertrude Beaton’s Ten Teenagers
1957
February 25-March 2: Carousel, with Bristol Musical Comedy Club
March 4-9: Spider’s Webb, with Joyce Heron, Roger Maxwell, Robert Dean, Valerie Newbold,
David Kerr, John Gare Pitt, Ross Hutchinson, Marjorie Gresley, Graham Squire, Robert
Lankesheer, Trevor Bannister
March 11-16: Jimmy Edwards, Wilson, Keppel and Betty, Arthur Worsley and “Charlie
Brown”, Janet Brown, Vic Gordon and Peter Colville, Billy Stutt, Five Robertis, Marie
de Vere’s Ballet Montparnasse
March 18-23: Peter Pan, with Janette Scott, Barry Sinclair, Frances Guthrie, Russell
Thorndike, Rosemary Scott, William Ingram, Trevor Ray, Kenneth Robinson, Tony Helm,
Jennifer Adkin, Jane Wren
March 25-April 13: The Pajama Game, with Nevil Whiting, Sally Rogers, Peter Dulay,
Valerie Walsh, Michael Hart, Joan Emney, Bertram Dench, Avril Fane, Stanley Beadle,
Sydney Bromley, Bill Futter, Neil MacLean
April 15-20: Free as Air, with Gillian Lewis, Michael Aldridge, Patricia Bredin,
John Trevor, Gerald Harper, Dorothy Reynolds, Roy Godfrey, Howard Goorney, Donald
Bradley, Josephine Tewson, Vincent Charles, Bill Tasker, Philip Martell
April 22-27: Dickie Valentine, Jimmy Wheeler, Sally Barnes, Ron and Rita, Vera Cody
and her Wonder Horse, Three Paulos, Dorothy Reid, Les Mallini, Hal Chambers
April 29-May 11: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Donald Adams,
Peter Pratt, Neville Griffiths, Arthur Richards, Ann Drummond-Grant, Leonard Osborn,
John Reed, Alan Styler, John Fryatt, Isidore Godfrey, William Cox-Ife
May 13-18: Rock ‘n’ Roll, with Max Wall, Anne Hart and Frank Porter, Gladys and June
Wilkinson, Terry Kennedy and his Rock ‘n’ Rollers, Five Speedacs, The Jumping Jax,
Six Teenagers
May 20-25: Yana and Don Phillips, Mitchell Torok, Jimmy James and company, Three
Brittons, Rey Overbury and Suzette, Two Elites, Roy Castle
May 27-June 1: Off the Record, with Eddie Calvert, Ken Dodd; Gerry Brereton, Jim
Couton, Eddie Rose and Marion, Brian Andro, Paul Dalton, Gillian and June
June 3-8: Tommy Steele, Mike and Bernie Winters, Paul and Peta Page, Billie Wyner,
Camilleri, Ann and Val Shelley, Reg Thompson, Los Brazilianos
June 10-15: The Nat Jackley Show, with Nat Jackley, Ken-Tones, Dave O’Gorman, Benson
Dulay and company, Roy Rivers, Flora-Dora Girls, Willis, Curtis and Jee
June 17-22: The Reluctant Debutante, with Jack Hulbert, Gwynne Whitby, Diane Clare,
Peter Myers, Joan Peart, Valerie Kirkbright, John Barron, Judith Craig
June 24-29: Dear Charles, with Chili Bouchier, Raymond Dyer, Denzil Ellis, Elizabeth
Alys, Graham Curnow, Lewis Teasdale, Fiona Thomson, Lennard Pearce, David Baron,
Elizabeth Gott, Maryann Turner, James Rayner
July 1-13: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: Il Trovatore, The Marriage of Figaro, La
Traviata, Martha, Tosca, La Boheme, Rigoletto, with Victoria Elliott, Charles Craig,
Sheila Rex, Peter Glossop, Harold Blackburn, Elizabeth Fretwell, Frederick Sharp,
William McAlpine, Howell Glynne, June Bronhill, Rowland Jones, Denis Dowling, Anna
Pollak, David Ward, Marcus Dods, Leo Quayle
July 15-20: The Touch of Fear, with Eugenie Cavanagh, Mark Kingston, David Cameron,
J Grant Anderson, Shirley Cameron, Keith Ashley, Christine Low, Mary Allen, Cedric
Richards, John Cross
July 22-27: Dave King, Kordites, Slim Rhyder, Dan Ray and Partner, Mistin Juniors,
Mandos Sisters, Bernard Landy, Hazel Gee Dancers
July 29-August 3: Mel Torme, Colin Beaton, Ossie Morris, Dickie Dawson, Clifford
Stanton, Marguerite and Charles, The Dernos, De Vel and Partner, Marie de Vere Dancers
August 5-10: The Max Miller Show, with Max Miller, Penny Nicholls and Billy Merrin,
Margaret West and Billy West, Tattersall and “Jerry”, Hans Bela and Mary, Averil
and Aurel, Richards and Yolanda
August 12-17: Frankie Vaughan, Gladys Morgan and company, Chic Murray and Maidie,
Alan Clive, Kenways, Keefe Brothers and Annette, Jack Francois, Murray Campbell,
Raymond Long
August 19-24: Doctor in the House, with Joyce Mandre, Richard Aylen, Stuart Wagstaff,
Geoffrey Sasse, Claude Jones, Peggy Fame, Daphne Cave, Deirdre Day, Frank Seton
August 26-31: The Hancock Show, with Tony Hancock, Roy and Ray Marlow, Margery Manners,
Walthon and Dorraine, Matanzas, Peggy Cavell, Murray Graham, Betty Fox’s Eight Dancing
Teenagers
September 2-14: Rocking the Town, with Harry Secombe, Billie Anthony, Rudy Horn,
Joe Cornelius, Max Russell, Ann Lancaster, Gimma Boys, Dior Dancers, George Mitchell
Singers, Sherman Fisher Girls, Six Dancing Demons
September 16-21: Hotel Paradiso, with Frankie Howerd, Phyllis Montefiore, Margo Jenkins,
Michael Logan, Heather Chasen, Peter Stephens, Michael Danvers Walker, Patrick Newell,
Mary Richards, Angela Crow, Ann Beach, Peggy Ann Taylor, John Gordon, Anthony Selby
September 23-28: Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group, Des O’Connor, Smoothey and
Layton, Darly’s Dogs, Trio Tobas, Shipway Twins, Marie de Vere Dancers
September 30-October 5: The Royal Ballet: Les Sylphides, House of Birds, Pineapple
Poll, Solitaire, Les Patineurs, La Fete Etrange, Blood Wedding, Giselle, Coppelia,
with Anne Heaton, Susan Alexander, Miro Zolan, Alexander Bennett, Donald Britton,
Patricia Cox, Stanley Holden, Valerie Reece, Lorna Mossford, Joan Blakeney, Brenda
Bolton, Michael Boulton, Donald MacLeary, Johaar Mosaval, John Lanchbery
October 7-12: Carl Rosa Opera: Carmen, Rigoletto, Benvenuto Cellini, Tannhauser,
The Barber of Seville, The Tales of Hoffmann, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, with
Gita Denise, John Heddle Nash, William Aitken, Estelle Valery, Arthur Wallington,
Nancy Creighton, Eduardo Asquez, Stanislav Pieczora, Julia Bouttell, Rita Hunter,
Charles Craig, Pauline Allen, John Myrddin, John Faasen, Donald Campbell, Krystyna
Granowska, Glenice Halliday, George Chitty, Adrian de Peyer, Joseph Satariano, Beatrix
Edwards, Moyra Cronin, Julia Shelley, Arthur Thelwell, Frederick Westcott, Basil
Hemming, Arthur Hammond, John Bell, Edward Renton, Anthony Addison
October 14-26: Light Up the Town, with David Whitfield, Harry Worth, Audrey Jeans,
King Brothers, Billy Dainty, Skylons, Betsy Ross, The Belles and The Beaux, Sandra
Martin, Paul Conrad, George Mitchell Singers
October 28-November 2: London Festival Ballet: The Nutcracker, Graduation Ball, Giselle,
Symphony for Fun, Swan Lake Act II, Coppelia, with Anton Dolin, Natalie Krassovska,
John Gilpin, Marilyn Burr, Anita Landa, Jeannette Minty, Louis Godfrey, Margit Muller,
Maureen Webster, Janet Overton, Keith Beckett, Peter White, Jeffrey Kovel, Ronald
Emblen, Donald McAlpine
November 4-9: The Deep River Boys and Harry Douglass, Falcons, Sid Plummer, Norman
Vaughan, Dash’s Chimps, Don Arrol, Pat Rosa, Marie de Vere’s Royal Command Girls
November 11-16: Song of Norway, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 18-23: George and Bert Bernard and George Pierce, Record Miming Contest,
Janie Marden, McAndrews and Mills, Lloyd and Vi Day, Nino the Wonder Dog, Hackford
and Doyle
November 25-30: Carroll Levis and his TV Star Search (Skiffletones, Roy Smith, Johnny
Mans), Mrs Shufflewick, Eddie Goffron, Benitas, Three Edorics, Joyce Golding and
Tony Stuart
December 2-7: Lirica Italiana (Italian opera): La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Boheme,
Tosca, with Jole Reboni, Rita Saponari, Guido Malfatti, Fernando Bandera, Marina
Cucchio, Renato Cioni, Carlo Tagliabue, Franco Marghinotti, Libero Bullo, Ruggero
Bondino, Regolo Romani, Gianni Lollini, Marco Stecchi, Armando Manelli, Franco Patane,
Guiseppe Patane Caravaglios
December 9-14: The Beverley Sisters, Jo, Jac and Joni, Jimmy Gay, Susie and company
and Reg Russell, Howard Jones and Reggie Arnold, Rey and Ronjy, Tommy Locky
December 23-March 1: Aladdin, with “Mr Pastry” Richard Hearne, Gwen Cherrell, Dave
O’Gorman, Jean Scott, Cooper Twins, Ronnie Collis, Alan Webster, Warren, Devine and
Sparks, Western Theatre Ballet, Dehl Trio, Gertrude Beaton’s Teenagers, Sherman Fisher
Girls
1958
March 4-15: Plain and Fancy, with Bristol Musical Comedy Club
March 17-22: The Desert Song, with John Hanson, Clifford Mollison, Hilda Dixon, Janet
Gray, Michael Ryan, Martin Dell, Dennis Stephenson, Joan De Burgh
March 24-29: The House by the Lake, with Flora Robson, Andrew Cruickshank, Richard
Warner, Sylvia Coleridge, Annette Kerr, Paul Lee, Andrew Laurence, Greta Wood, Julia
Ratcliffe
March 31-April 12: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Kenneth
Sandford, Peter Pratt, Ann Drummond-Grant, Donald Adams, Neville Griffiths, John
Reed, Alan Styler, John Fryatt, Leonard Osborn, Jean Barrington, Isidore Godfrey,
William Cox-Ife
April 14-19: Johnny Duncan and the Blue-Grass Boys, Morecambe and Wise, Southlanders,
Freddie Earle, Illuna Sisters, Carlo Sisters, Gillian and June
April 21-26: Ken Dodd, Russ Hamilton and Derek New, Dennis Spicer and “James Green”,
Barbara Law, Granville Taylor and Valerie, Rey and Ronjy, Tilibs Brothers
April 28-May 3: Jim Dale, Stanley Dale’s National Skiffle Contest, Wally Whyton and
the Vipers, Stan Van, Jimmy Edmundson, Susan and Valerie Pardoe, Campbell and Rogerson,
Betty Fox’s Dancing Teenagers
May 5-10: Light Up Again, with Ruby Murray, Tommy Cooper, Vic Gordon and Peter Colville,
Four Jones Boys, Jean Anderson, Jean and Peter Barbour, Johnny Laycock and Bee, Vicki
Hammond, Eight Lovelies
May 12-17: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, Marty May, June Johnson, Gary Miller, Norman
Vaughan, Audrey Jeans, Harry Jacobson, Ron Scott, Nick and Pam Lundon, Nanny Francois
and Joy Zandra
May 19-24: The Hilltoppers and Jimmy Sacca, Desmond Lane, Johnny Mack, Alan Clive,
Marguerite and Charles, Authors and Swinson, Lester Sharpe and Iris, Emerson and
Jayne
May 26-31: Michael Holliday, Hal Monty and his Gang, Fraser Hayes Four, Kordas, El
Granadas, Dancing McKennas, Jolly Jesters
June 2-7: Dry Rot, with Basil Lord, Tony Hilton, Raymond Dyer, Pauline Loring, Amelia
Bayntun, Shelagh Locke, Edna Hopcroft, Geoffrey Denton, David Conville, Geoffrey
Sasse
June 9-14: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: The Merry Widow, The Marriage of Figaro,
La Traviata, La Boheme, with June Bronhill, Marion Lowe, Thomas Round, William McAlpine,
Charles Craig, Denis Dowling, Howell Glynne, Patricia Howard, Joan Stuart, Joyce
Blackham, Sheila Rex, Gwent Lewis, Raimund Herincx, Stanley Clarkson, Marjorie Shires,
Rowland Jones, Marion Studholme, Patricia Bartlett, John Probyn, John Hargreaves,
Victoria Elliott, Elizabeth Fretwell, Frederick Sharp, Harold Blackburn, Peter Glossop,
Alexander Gibson
June 16-21: Sailor Beware, with Tessie O’Shea, Cyril Smith, Natalie Kent, Andrew
Downie, Godfrey James, Jennifer Schooling, Cherry Crest, Alan Rolfe, Marion Wilson
June 23-28: The Lovebirds, with Wallas Eaton, Betty Driver, Renee Reel, Francis Hall,
Sara Burn, Rupert White, Audrey Noble, David Hart, Henry Hutteroth, Ann Vear, Ronald
Harwood
July 1-12: No Time for Sergeants, with Leslie Dwyer, Ronald Allen, Brian Smith, Anthony
Carrick, Bert Platt, Noel Carey, Richard Dunn, Ronald Mansell, Peter Thorpe, Brian
Moorehead, Clare Owen
July 14-19: Marty Wilde and his Wildcats, Nancy Whiskey, Sonny Roy, Les Brazilianos,
Earle and Elgar, McKinnon Sisters, Len Martell
July 21-26: The Polish Ballet Company: The Carnival Horse, Harmony in Movement, At
the Station, Matthew is Dead, Dancers at the Fair, In a Polish Manor, A Country Duel,
Idyll in the Park, Popular Ball, L’Après-midi d’un Faune, The Fantastic Oberek, Peasant
Wedding, Terpischore in the Yard, Harvest Festival, with Maria Lapinska, Wlodzimierz
Traczewski, Edward Pokross
July 28-August 2: Paul Raymond’s Festival of Striptease, with Jane of the Daily Mirror,
Johnny Silver, George Meaton, Beryl Catlin, Margaret West, Nat Willis, Three Botonds,
Bill and Brian Dennis, Striporama Girls
August 4-9: Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest, with Renee Asherson, Nigel Stock,
Violet Farebrother, Michael Golden, Roy Purcell, Philip Newman, Winifred Oughton,
Christopher Sandford, Paul Curran, Tenniel Evans
August 11-16: Marion Ryan, Gaunt Brothers, Peter Dulay and Partner, Alain Diagora,
Barbour and Billie, Jackie Ross, Mayfairs, Hackford and Doyle
August 18-23: The Diana Dors Show, with Diana Dors, Albert Sadler, Jack Stanford,
Jessie Carron, Group One, The Three Quarters, Rondart and Jean, Dickie Dawson, Sensational
Carals
August 25-30: Free as Air, with Gillian Lewis, Bunty Turner, Josephine Tewson, Michael
Aldridge, Malcolm Farquhar, John Trevor
September 1-6: Terry Dene and his Dene-Aces, Edna Savage, Roy Rivers, Peter Quinton,
Hal Roach, Margo and June, Fred Lovelle, Georgette, Mistin Juniors
September 8-13: Shirley Bassey, Howard Jones and Reg Arnold, Allen and Albee Sisters,
Metronotes, Bob and Marion Konyot, Billy O’Sullivan, Joan Winters and Guy Fielding,
Lane Twins
September 15-20: Folies Frou-Frou - La Grande Parade des Streep-Teeze, with Freddie
Bamberger and Pam, Averil Jean, Fred and Audrey Atkins, Margaret Joyce, Kish and
Valarie, Victor Rogers, Aurel Verne, Nina Cordell, Renee Delmar, Natasha
September 22-27: Toni Dalli, Leslie Randall, Billie Anthony and Colin Keyes, Benson
Dulay, Duo Russmar, Marie de Vere Trio, Johnny and Suma Lamonte
September 29-October 4: The Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, Black
Swan pas de deux, Agon, The Lady and the Fool, Les Patineurs, Giselle, Le Lac des
Cygnes Act II, The Shadow, with Margo Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Anya Linden, Michael
Somes, Brian Shaw, Alexander Grant, David Blair, Maryon Lane, Pirmin Trecu, Ronald
Hynd, Ray Powell, Leslie Edwards, Shirley Grahame, Annette Page, Brenda Taylor, Georgina
Parkinson, Judith Sinclair, Ann Howard, Clover Roope, Antoinette Sibley, Deirdre
Dixon, Christine Beckley, Desmond Doyle, Petrus Bosman, Ronald Plaisted, Hugo Rignold,
Kenneth Alwyn
October 6-11: Chrysanthemum, with Pat Kirkwood, Hubert Gregg, Raymond Newell, Nicholas
Amer, Richard Curnock, Patricia Moore, Roger Gage, Roy Skelton, Ray Warwick, Josephine
Blake, Terry Theobald, Vivien Grant, Judy Carne, Roy Jameson, Greta Hamby, Roy Lowe
October 13-18: A Season of Grand Opera: Don Giovanni, The Bartered Bride, Carmen,
Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, with Gloria
Lane, Marie Collier, John Heddle Nash, Julia Bouttell, Doreen Murray, Nancy Creighton,
Brychan Powell, William Aitken, Joseph Satariano, Stanislav Pieczora, Ann Robson,
Rita Hunter, Mary Wells, Paul Asciak, Gwyn Griffiths, Kevin Miller, John Holmes,
Donald Campbell, Alan Jones, Bryan Drake, Edwin Jepps, David Read, Peter Tracey,
Norma Kubel, Joseph Ward, Carl Abrahamson, Anne Caswell, Barbara Howitt, Margaret
Nisbett, James Robertson, Bryan Balkwill, Edward Renton, Leonard Hancock
October 20-25: Grab Me a Gondola, with Roberta Huby, Desmond Jordan, Hilda Dixon,
Clive Cazes, Dennis Edwards, David Drummond, Dennis Stephenson, Veronica Wells, Glyn
Jones, Jasmine Dee, Amanda Barrie, Christine Child, Sandra Hampton, Vivien Lacey,
Julia Sutton, Jimmy Miller
October 27-November 1: Lilac Time, with Walter Midgley, Sylvia Metaxas, Ann Gabrielle,
Georgina Pearce, Frank Cariello, Mai Ramsay, Lawrence Folley, Charles Gillespie,
Freddie Foss, Yvonne Fisher, Tom Fletcher, Martin Bell, Derek Taverner
November 3-8: Summer Song, with Bristol Light Opera Club, Bristol Ballet Club
November 10-15: London Festival Ballet: Swan Lake Act II, Reverie, Romeo and Juliet,
Concerti, Variations for Four, Grand pas de deux, Napoli, Les Sylphides, Bolero,
Graduation Ball, Giselle, The Nutcracker Suite, Octeto, with Beryl Grey, Anita Landa,
John Gilpin, Anton Dolin, Jean-Pierre Alban, Jeannette Minty, Louis Godfrey, Michael
Hogan, Andre Prokovsky, Natalie Krassovska, Kenneth Melville, Diane Westerman, Keith
Beckett, Janet Overton, Pamela Hart, Dianne Richards, Leon Ward, Marilyn Burr, David
Scott
November 17-22: Hot Summer Night, with John Slater, Joan Miller, Andree Melly, Harold
Scott, Lloyd Reckford, Joyce Howard, Richard Walter
November 24-29: Dear Delinquent, with Michael Howard, Carol Austin, Robert Hunter,
Daphne Jonason, Frank Pettitt, Christopher Banks, Grace Webb, Ross Hutchinson
December 1-6: Alma Cogan, Hedley Ward Trio, Harry Bailey, Two Hellos, Ray Alan and
“Steve”, Anton and Janetta, Carmel Gowan
December 8-13: Wakey! Wakey!, with Billy Cotton and his Band, with Alan Breeze, Frankie
Kenyon, Bill Herbert, Eddie Spiegel, George Martin, Zodias, Alexis Troupe, Richman
and Jackson, Marcies, Flack and Lamar, Juggling Brauns, Ellis Jackson
December 26-February 21: The Sleeping Beauty, with Tommy Trinder, Bert Brownbill,
Patricia Hall, Hazel Lee, John Baskcomb, Eva May Wong, May Warden, Roy Lever and
Partner, Shirley Blackman, Anne Hyde, Will Percival, Ten Sherman Fisher Girls, Western
Theatre Ballet, Mary Reynolds’ Juveniles
1959
February 23-28: The Tunnel of Love, with Brian Reece, Patricia Raine, Basil Henson,
Constance Lorne, Elspeth Bryce, Frances Bennett
March 2-7: Annie Get your Gun, with Bristol Musical Comedy Club
March 9-14: Dickie Valentine, Don Smoothey and Tom Layton, Fraser Hayes Four, Edorics,
Rexanos, Billy Burden, Gaby Grossetto, Hal Chambers, Denny Piercey
March 16-21: The Flowering Cherry, with Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Peter McEnery,
Frederick Peisley, Lucy Young, Brewster Mason, Zoreen Ismail
March 23-28: The Boy Friend, with Anthony Hayes, Roberta Huby, Patricia Vivian, Larry
Drew, Brian Blades, Penelope Newington, Gwendolyn Watts, Patricia Newell, Gladys
Bacon, Sandra Caron, Annette Gibson, Shirley Gould, Roderick Joyce, Graham Pyle,
Bunny May, Tony Stuart, Ted Jepson
March 30-April 4: Peter Pan, with Sarah Churchill, John Justin, Julia Lockwood, Russell
Thorndike, Joan Seton, Robert Passfield, Vincent MacLeod, Brian Tipping, Judy Raymond,
Jane Wren, John Levitt
April 6-11: Candide, with Denis Quilley, Mary Costa, Laurence Naismith, Edith Coates,
Ron Moody, Victor Spinetti, Dennis Stephenson, Vernon Rees, Vincent Charles, James
Cairncross, Lorna Lee, Roy Pattison
April 13-18: A View from the Bridge, with John Boyd-Brent, Brian Murray, John Bryans,
Peter Whitbread, Janet Butler, Jasmine Dee, John Hart Dyke, Margaret St Barbe West,
Richard Hawkins, Donald Mackintosh, David Rolfe
April 20-May 2: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Thomas Round,
Leonard Osborn, Donald Adams, Peter Pratt, Kenneth Sandford, Ann Drummond-Grant,
John Reed, Frederick Sinden, George Cook, Jeffrey Skitch, Isidore Godfrey
May 4-9: Top of the Town, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, Jill Day, Neil and Pat Delrina,
Hollander and Hart, Charly Wood, Irish Roy Trio, Johnny Laycock and Bee, Terry Fearis,
16 John Tiller Girls
May 11-16: The Lilac Domino, with Bill Tasker, Erica Yorke, Allan Bruce, Colin Thomas,
Bronwen Jones, Hilda Campbell-Russell, John Baddeley, Penny Stephens, Gerald Deacon,
Audrey Cummings, Arthur Butler, Ann Richards, Jill Donohue, Patricia Brooke-Green,
Edward McPhillips, Robert Davies, Western Theatre Ballet Company
May 18-23: The Student Prince, with John Hanson, Ruth Clark, Kenneth Henry, Yvonne
Marlowe, Barbara Whatley, Douglas Thomson, Frank Lawless, Bryn Bartlett, John Delaney,
John Cavanagh, Douglas Gamble, Henry Woolf, Elizabeth Alys, Ralph Wilson, Chris Murphy,
Joan de Burgh, Brian O’Keefe, Robert Ash
May 25-30: The Norman Wisdom Show, with Norman Wisdom, Eddie Leslie, Lorne Lesley,
Tony Fayne, Darly’s Dogs, Rosinas, Three Brittons, Hermene French, Joan Hurley, Harold
Collins
June 1-6: Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group, Lorrae Desmond, Des O’Connor, Allan
Kemble and Christine, Miki and Griff, Marie de Vere Dancers
June 8-13: Sadler’s Wells Opera Company: The Merry Widow, Carmen, The Marriage of
Figaro, Madame Butterfly, Fidelio, Rigoletto, with Joyce Blackham, John Hargreaves,
Leon Greene, Marion Lowe, Barbara Howitt, William Aitken, Gwyn Griffiths, Ava June,
Elizabeth Fretwell, Anne Edwards, Patricia Howard, John Cameron, Joan Hammond, Ronald
Dowd, Brychan Powell, Alberto Remedios, Stanislav Pieczora, David Ward, Stanley Clarkson,
Tom Swift, William McGovern, Joseph Ward, Edwin Jepps, Michael Moores, Bryan Balkwill,
James Robertson, Alexander Gibson, Colin Davis, Bristol Opera School members
June 15-20: Me and My Girl, with Lupino Lane, Lauri Lupino Lane, Valerie Tandy, Helen
Ford, Sylvia Norman, Tony Ward, George Truzzi, Fred Yarborough, Rita Webster, Helen
Ford, Keith Leggett, James Simmons, Martin Dell, Violet Blythe, Nell Emerald, Vesta
Bell, Alan Hayes
June 22-27: “Mr Inkspot” Billy Kenny, Alan Clive, Reg Dixon, Maurice Rocco, Peter
Dulay, Francois and Zandra, McAndrews and Mills
June 29-July 4: Bless the Bride, with Christian Selva, Peter Byrne, Susan Swinford,
Colette Bartrop, Peter Sugden, Vera Lennox, John English, Lisa Brionda, Elisabeth
Wade, John Hewitt, Arch Taylor, John Brighton, Margaret Dawn
July 6-11: Gaslight, with Joan Rice, Roy Smith, Gloria Dolskie, Helen Sessions, Artro
Morris, Roderick Horn
July 13-18: Who’s your Father?, with John Bryans, John Hart Dyke, Janet Butler, Jasmine
Dee, Peter Elrington, Rosaline Haddon, Julia Paul Jones, Roy Patrick, Betty Turner,
Mildred Gayson
July 20-25: A Raisin in the Sun, with Juanita Moore, Earle Hyman, Meredith Edwards,
Olga James, Kim Hamilton, Scott Cunningham, John Adan, Keefe West, Lionel Ngakane,
Barri Johnson, Donald Hoath
July 27-August 1: Not in the Book, with Jack Hulbert, Joy Andrews, David Drummond,
Michael Sands, Gerald Welch, David Conville, Lionel Gadsden, John Payne
August 3-8: Ruby Murray, Norman Evans, Tommy Fields, Jeanne and Jon, Rey Overbury
August 10-15: Carroll Levis and his TV Discoveries (Sandra Wilmot, Helen Soutar,
The Rebels, Valerie and Diane, Harvey French, Two Tonys), Gladys Morgan and her Laugh
Company, George Meaton, Barbour and Billie, Alain Diagora, Gold and Cordell
August 17-22: Tony Brent, Chic Murray and Maidie, Al Koran, Ross and Howitt, Peter
Quinton
August 24-29: Hylda Baker, Robert Earl, Al Roxy and Glenda, Sid Plummer, Ladringlos,
Tassi and Diana, The Kid and I
August 31-September 5: Love from a Stranger, with Genine Graham, Hugh McDermott,
Margot Boyd, Sheila Keith, John Sharplin, Bertram Heyhoe, Marian Diamond, Charles
Rea
September 7-12: Master of None, with Jeremy Hawk, Jack Watling, Mavis Villiers, Moira
Redmond, Robert Desmond, Vivian Pickles, Jane Gleeson
September 14-19: Bless the Bride, with Christian Selva, Susan Swinford, Fred Stone,
Colette Bartrop, Vera Lennox, Elisabeth Wade, Peter Sugden, John English, John Brighton,
Lisa Brionda, Margaret Dawn, Shirley May, Charlotte Selwyn, Jenny Wren, Judy Nash,
Una Pearl, Arthur Furby
September 21-26: Aunt Edwina, with Henry Kendall, Margaretta Scott, Cyril Raymond,
Kenneth Fortescue, Hilary Tindall, Launce Maraschal, Gay Cameron, Peter Cellier,
Nicholas Selby, Marina Martin, Christine Roberts
September 28-October 3: Fool’s Paradise, with Cicely Courtneidge, Cicely Paget-Bowman,
John Bryans, Jasmine Dee, Roy Hawksworth, Gillian Cobbold, Jane Comfort, Maidie Andrews
October 5-10: Brothers-in-Law, with Peter Norton, Michael Cotterill, Marian Page,
Josephine Massey, Vyvian Hall, Ian Cunningham, Paul Elliott, Anthea Morris, Patricia
Authbert, Anthony Peck, Gordon Clifford, Drummond Marvin
October 12-17: The Desert Song, with Bruce Trent, Nicholas Smith, Mary Millar, Raymond
Parks, Guy Graham, Janet Gray, Wendy Elliott, Humphrey Kent, Hilda Campbell-Russell
October 19-24: Meet Mr Tombs, with Vera Day, Arthur English, Sydney Arnold, Peter
Stanwick, Alan Rolfe, Gwen Harris, Grace Webb, Ronald Lacey, Benn Simons
October 26-November 7: “Chu Chin Chow”, with Inia Te Wiata, Albert Burdon, Hermene
French, Helen Landis, Dorothy Dampier, Philip Potter, Stephen W Scott, Patricia Kerry,
Arthur Roberts
November 9-14: The Merry Widow, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 16-28: The Dancing Years, with Barry Sinclair, Margaret Mitchell, Olive
Gilbert, Dawn Berrington, John Palmer, Joan Emney, Pauline Greta, Robert Chetwyn,
Richard Fraser, Denis Gilding, Robert O’Leary, Harry Davison
November 30-December 5: The Royal Ballet: Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Don Quixote pas
de deux, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Solitaire, Coppelia, with Nadia Nerina, Lynn Seymour,
Susan Alexander, Desmond Doyle, Elizabeth Anderton, Margaret Hill, Donald Britton,
Alexander Bennett, Audrey Farris, Elaine Thomas, Michael Boulton, Hugo Rignold, John
Lanchbery
December 7-12: The Pearce Duff Show, with Lenny the Lion and Terry Hall, Cyril Fletcher,
Pete Murray, Marguerite Patten, Gene Williams, Marion Williams, Eric Delaney, Delaney
Band, Ballet Montparnasse, Pan Yue Jen
December 23-February 27: Cinderella, with Jimmy Edwards, Yana, Ted Rogers, Ted Durante,
Arthur Howard, Richard Wakeley, Robin Palmer, Jill Love, Linda Masters, Edith Macarthur,
Graham Squire, Elizabeth Moscrop, John Taylor, Frank Raymond, Bill Shepherd Singers,
Miss Vinning and her Four White Arab and Shetland Ponies, Sooty the Donkey, Tunis
the horse, Corps de Ballet
