London St James Theatre – SOS – 1928 – Gracie Fields

About this SOS theatre programme

An original programme for SOS at the St James’s Theatre, London, dated 20 February 1928. The cast is headed by Gracie Fields, who took a rare dramatic role here, alongside the great actor-manager Gerald Du Maurier, with Herbert Waring, George Curzon, Betty Stockfield, Grace Wilson, Gilbert Miller and Herbert Marshall. Pairing Lancashire’s favourite music-hall star with the West End’s most polished leading man, this is a highly collectable theatre programme from a lost London playhouse.

Condition: V Good, lcr, spine is 90% split, a few marks (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Gerald Du Maurier created the role of Captain Hook in the first production of Peter Pan in 1904, and was the father of novelist Daphne du Maurier.
• Herbert Marshall lost a leg in the First World War yet went on to a long Hollywood career, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent.
• The St James’s Theatre opened in 1835 and was demolished in 1957, despite a famous protest campaign led by Vivien Leigh.