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Promotional postcard for So This Is Love by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby’ music Hal Brod

Promotional postcard for So This Is Love by Stanley Lupino and Arthur Rigby music Hal Brody. First produced at the Winter Garden Theatre, London (now New London Theatre) 25th April 1928. The image is well chosen, as, according to The Times, there was much in the way of singing and dancing and marvellous cart-wheels'. Artist: E P Kinsella Date: 1928

The Edge O Beyond by Roy Horniman and Ruby Miller

The Edge O Beyond by Roy Horniman (18721930) and Ruby Miller (14 July 1889 - 2 April 1976), from the novel by Gertrude Page (1872 - 1922) written in 1908. First produced at Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne on 20th June 1921 and at the Garrick Theatre, on 9th August 1921. The wording on the reverse is by Gertrude Page Authoress of Paddy the Next Best Thing. Horniman and Miller are credited as adapters. Touring to the Shakespeare Theatre in Liverpool, on 17th September 1923. Date: 1923

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

No, No Nanette by Frank Mandel

Promotional postcard for No No Nanette by Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach and Irving Caesar; music Vincent Youmans. (Globe Theatre, New York, 16th September 1925). First produced in England at the Palace Theatre, 11th March 1925. Touring to Theatre Royal, Brighton, 31st August 1925. The farcical story involves three couples who find themselves together at a cottage in Atlantic City in the midst of a blackmail scheme, focusing on a young, fun-loving Manhattan heiress who naughtily runs off for a weekend, leaving her unhappy fianc鮠Its songs include the well-known "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". Also used at the Theatre Mogador, Paris, where the postcard was given away two weeks before the show opened there. Date: 1925

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library