| Description | Scrapbook of press cuttings relating to the play Cynara by H.M. Harwood and R. Gore Browne, assembled by Robert Gore Browne. Cuttings include reviews in the UK, USA, South Africa and Australia, from the London Playhouse production and tours. Also includes photographs and sketches of the play and the actors related to it. Loose newspaper cuttings at the front of the book relate to the 1953-1955 productions of The Devil's General, a play by Carl Zuckmayer. Another set of loose cuttings relate to the Hollywood production of Cynara. Another set of cuttings relate to the 1930s production of The Key by R. Gore Brown.
Featured actors: Celia Johnson, Gerald du Maurier, Gladys Cooper, Dorice Fordred, Isla Bevan, Joan Carol, Campbell Gullan, Robert Wilton, Walter Tobias, Charles Koop, Gwendoline Hill, Ernest Jay, Tom Woods, Joan Swinstead, Cyril Fairlie, Carteret Maule, Florence Harwood, A. Harding Steerman, Garrett Hollick, Ann Todd, Zena Dare, Owen Nares, Joan Kemp Welch, Mary Brackley, Arthur Barclay, Keith Beer, Ralph Almond, Arthur Boodle, Joan Rogers, Margaret Evelyn, Esma Cannon, Douglas Vigors, Eirene Miller, Martin Lewis, W.V. Garrod, Joan Foster, Philip Merivale, Jessie Royce Landis, Phoebe Foster, Gladys Bell, Mariam Jordan, Henry Stephenson, Peter Barbier, Joseph Romantini, Jean Derayville, Mary Newnham-Davis, Hannam Clark, Adrienne Allen, Marguerite Martin, Kathryn O'Neill, Mary Williamson, Mary Scott Seton, Edna Bennett, Thomas Bate, A.P. Kaye, Vera Fuller Mellish, Linda Eder, Shirley Gale, Mario Majeroni, Paul Hanson, Clement O'Loughlin (Clement O'Loghlen), Rosalie Vale, Guy Standing, Francois de Bargo, Nancy Sheridan, Henry Morrell, Constance Pelissier, Kathleen Lowry, Lillian Lidman, William Evans, Margaret Campbell, Cathleen Barrett, Eric Howell, Clive Coppard, Joy Howarth, Adele Quinn, Jo Weekes, Caroline Forsyth, Alma Reynolds, Bill Firth, Flora Abbott, Phillip Lewis, Phyllis Gill, Godfrey Tearle, Robert Gilbert, Vera Cook, Vera Reynolds, Eric Howard, Eve Drekson, Owen Reynolds, stella Bonheur.
Featured theatres: The Playhouse, Theatre Royal Brighton, Empire Theatre Edinburgh, Glasgow Alhambra, Sheffield Empire, Manchester Palace, Empire Theatre Liverpool, Empire Theatre Newcastle, Birmingham Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Nottingham, Leeds Theatre Royal, Golders Green Hippodrome, Streatham Hill Theatre, New Theatre Oxford, Grand Opera House Harrogate, Folkestone Pleasure Gardens, Gaiety Theatre Hastings, Grand Theatre Blackpool, Park Theatre Eastbourne, Theatre Royal Bournemouth, Empire Theatre Southampton, Prince's Theatre Bristol, Belfast Opera House, Gaiety Theatre Dublin, Theatre Royal Hanley, New Theatre Cambridge, Theatre Royal Huddersfield, Regent Theatre King's Cross, Morosco Theatre New York, Los Angeles Biltmore Theatre, Grand Opera House Chicago, Sydney Savoy Theatre, His Majesty's Theatre Johannesburg, Hull Repertory Theatre. |