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Our Shows 1930-1939

The Boy - 1930 
Directed by Madame Forbes Wilson

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The full company outside the Grand Hotel.

This show was the last the Society presented

 in the Theatre Royal before it closed later the same year.

Sybil - 1931 
Directed by Madame Forbes Wilson

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The Full Company and the Principals (with Borzoi!) of “Sybil” outside the Grand Hotel. The show was presented what was then the Queen’s Theatre - later the Queen’s Cinema.

Falka - 1932
Directed by Madame Forbes Wilson

There are unfortunately no photos of this show.

High Jinks - 1933
Directed by Allan Wilson & Edward Ablett

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The Society on stage in the Queen’s Theatre.

The Cabaret Girl - 1934
Directed by Allan Wilson & Edward Ablett

Maurice Beattie (Harry Zona) Florence Selby (Lily de Jigger) Leo C Kirkpatrick (Gravvins) Jean Graham (Little Ada) Robert Burns (March) Dorothy Field (April)

Harrogate: "Why don't you carry a wrist watch?"

Dorothy Field & the Ka-lu-a Girls -- N Todhunter, D Mitchell, O Pickering, A Roe, A Millington, M Cross, G Aitken, N Atkinson

"Take me away, Jim, to the country, anywhere" Marjorie Nixon (Marilynn Morgan) & Philip Byrne (James Paradene)

The Desert Song - 1935
Directed by Mavis Shrubb

Poster

Joe Roe (Bennie) Jean Graham (Susan)

Act I The Retreat of the Red Shadow in the Riff Mountains

Annie Dobie (Margot Bonvalet)

Allan Wilson (Gen. Birabeau) Philip Byrne (Sid El Kar) Vera Wade (Azuri) Tom Scully (Hassi) Jack Wattleworth (Ali Ben Ali) Ernest Brandford (Red Shadow)

The New Moon - 1936
Directed by Mavis Shrubb & Lawrence Handel

Poster

James Pearsall (Besac) Mrs. Wilson (Clotilde Lambaste)

P.J. King (MonsieurBeaunoir) Tom Scully (Vicomte Ribaud) James Pearsall (Besac) Robert Wilson (Robert) Jack Kellett (Jacques) Isabelle G Gilhooley (Marianne) Brass Robertson (Capt Georges Duval)

Isabelle G Gilhooley (Marieanne)

Joe Roe (Alexander) Jeam Graham (Julie)

Jack Kellett (Jacques) Jean Graham (Julie) Joe Roe (Alexander) Mrs. Wilson (Clotilde Lambaste) James Pearsall (Besac)

No! No! Nanette - 1937
Directed by Mavis Shrubb & Lawrence Handel

Poster

Jean Graham (Nanette) Joe Roe (Jimmy) John Ramsey (Tom) Flo Ramsey (Sue) Peggy Nancarrow (Lucille) Harry Schofield (Billy)

John Ramsey (Tom) Jean Graham (Nanette) Joe Roe (Jimmy)

Harry Schofield (Billy Early) with the girls

Merrie England - 1937
Directed by Harry Schofield

Poster

Robert Wilson (Earl of Essex) Freda Pear (Queen Elizabeth I

Evelyn Watson (Jill-all-alone)

Evelyn Ashcroft (Bessie Throckmorton)

The Mikado - 1938
Directed by Harry Schofield

Poster

Dennis Sowden (Peep-Bo)

Joe Roe (Koko)

Fred Woodruff (Pish-Tush)

Jack Wattleworth (The Mikado)

Freda Pear (Katisha)

Robert Wilson (Pooh-bah)

Doris Pearson (Yum-Yum)

Joseph Jenkinson (Nanki-Poo)

Evelyn Watson (Pitti-Sing)

The Gondoliers - 1939
Directed by Harry Yates

Poster

Joe Roe (The Duke of Plaza Toro)

Dennis Sowden (The Duchess of Plaza Toro)

Robert Wilson (Don Alhambra del Bolero)

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