| Ref No | READ/PER/PLY/401922 |
| Collection | Reading Rayner |
| Title | The Bat (The Play Pictorial volume 40) |
| Date | 23.1.1922 |
| Description | The cast list is accompanied by a description of the plot and photographs of the actors in character and in scenes from the play. In particular Mr. Arthur Wontner as Anderson a Detective, Miss Eva Moore as Miss Cornelia van Gorder, Drusilla Wills as Lizzie, A. Scott-Gatty as Dr. Wells, Nora Swinburne as Miss Dale Ogden, George Relph as Brooks, Claude Rains as Billy the Butler, C. Stafford Dickens as Richard Fleming, Herbert Bolingbroke as Richard Beresford and Allan Jeayes as An Unknown Man. |
| Notes | Previous reference number: UKC/PER/PLY/401922 |
| "The authors and the management request the audience not to divulge the solution of the mystery. The pleasure of future patrons will be enhanced if they, like yourselves, are kept in suspense until the final curtain." |
| Subject | Drama |
| Related Person | Miller, Gilbert Heron, 1884-1969 |
| Kemper, Collin, 1870-1955 |
| Rinehart, May Roberts, 1876-1958 |
| Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928 |
| Wills, Drusilla |
| Rains, Claude, 1889-1967 |
| Relph, George, 1888-1960 |
| Moore, Eva, 1870-1955, (wife of H. Play Pictorial volume Esmond, mother of Jill Esmond) |
| Swinburne, Nora, 1902-2000, (sometimes credited as Elinor Johnson or Elnora B. Johnson) |
| Scott-Gatty, Alex, 1876-1937, (sometimes credited as Alexander Scott-Gatty) |
| Wontner, Arthur |
| Dickens, Stafford, c.1896-1967, (sometimes credited as C. Stafford Dickens or Charles Stafford-Dickens) |
| Bolingbroke, Herbert |
| Jeayes, Allan, 1885-1963 |
| Related Organisation | St. James' Theatre |
| Related Place | City of Westminster, London |
| Category | Periodicals |
| Printed publications |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
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| Level | Piece |