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Phra the Phoenician
A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold
Episode 1
with Norman Wooland as Phra
Production by Claire Chovil
Phra has come a very long way from his Mediterranean birthplace when he is discovered in an old cellar by workmen demolishing London buildings to make way for a new road. And he has a very strange story to tell!
(Norman Wooland is in 'A Passage to India' at the Comedy Theatre; Mary Steele is in 'The World of Suzie Wong' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Kelly
Book By:
Edwin Lester
Unknown:
Norman Wooland
Production By:
Claire Chovil
Unknown:
Norman Wooland
Unknown:
Mary Steele
Unknown:
Suzie Wong
Hanno:
Jeffrey Segal
Doctor:
William Fox
Slave dealer:
Ronald Baddiley
Branwen:
Mary Steele
Dhuwallen:
Stephen Jack
Julius Caesar:
Jack May

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