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A play by Jerome K. Jerome.
From the Arts Theatre of London.
With Edward Stirling, Peggy Simpson, Ena Moon, Peter Copley, Arthur Burne
The Arts Theatre staged this play for the first time in England, but Edward Stirling has toured with it all over the rest of Europe and America. The play is concerned with a man who is roughly a combination of Scrooge and Faust, a miser who exchanges his soul for that of a sailor.
Edward Stirling is an actor, manager, and dramatic author who is particularly famous in Paris, where he successfully established an English company at the Theatre Albert I. He studied for the stage under the late William Mollison, and made his London debut at the Scala Theatre in 1914 in "Anna Karenina".

Contributors

Author:
Jerome K. Jerome
Presentation:
G. More O'Ferrall
Nicholas Snyder:
Edward Stirling
[Actress]:
Peggy Simpson
Christina:
Ena Moon
[Actor]:
Peter Copley
Pedlar:
Arthur Burne

[Starring] Elizabeth Schooling, Pamela Foster, and Walter Gore in Pas de deux from "The Sleeping Beauty"
Polka
Oriel Ross
Songs
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

Tchaikovsky composed the music for "The Sleeping Beauty" in 1889, a time when it was not quite the thing for a composer of standing to turn his attention to ballet. The libretto was prepared by Vsevolojsky, the Director of Imperial Theatres, and the entire three acts were written by Tchaikovsky in a few weeks.
Oriel Ross was trained at the Royal College of Music. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Regent Theatre in "The Insect Play". Since then she has had important stage and film roles - she was Orinthia in Shaw's "The Apple Cart" at the Cambridge in 1935 - and has sung in cabaret, revue, and pantomime.

Contributors

Dancer:
Elizabeth Schooling
Dancer:
Pamela Foster
Dancer:
Walter Gore
Music (The Sleeping Beauty):
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography:
null Petipa
Music (Polka):
Joe Alex
Singer:
Oriel Ross
Musicians:
The BBC Television Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Boris Pecker
Orchestra conductor:
Hyam Greenbaum
Presentation:
Stephen Thomas

[Starring] Elizabeth Schooling, Pamela Foster, and Walter Gore in Pas de deux from
"The Sleeping Beauty"
Polka
Oriel Ross, Songs
Harold Scott, Songs from the Eighties
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

Contributors

Dancer:
Elizabeth Schooling
Dancer:
Pamela Foster
Dancer:
Walter Gore
Music (The Sleeping Beauty):
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography:
null Petipa
Music (Polka):
Joe Alex
Singer:
Oriel Ross
Singer:
Harold Scott
Musicians:
The BBC Television Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Boris Pecker
Orchestra conductor:
Hyam Greenbaum
Presentation:
Stephen Thomas

Originally Gwen Farrar was trained as a cellist by Herbert Walenn, and she made herself famous towards the end of the war through her partnership with Norah Blaney. The two of them appeared in "Pot Luck", "Rats", "Yes!" and "The Punchbowl", and then crossed the Atlantic to make a big hit in the United States. Two of Gwen Farrar's greatest successes were her part of Josephine in "Wonder Bar" at the Savoy, and her revue work at the Vaudeville in Chariot's "Char-a-bang".

Contributors

Performer:
Gwen Farrar

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