'Pride' or 'Beginners Please'
(Anonymous)
Friday 7 September 1928 London and Daventry 10.15-10.45
James Wren - James Raglan
Jane - Joan Matheson
Joe Skinner, known as 'Skinny' - Donald CalthropScene: The empty stage of any theatre of Variety, on a Sunday afternoon.
'Nea-R Georgian' or 'Quasi-Queen Anne'
a sketch entitled 'You Soy Ombre' or Bertie Plus Four Boys
(Gordon McConnel)
Thursday 1 November 1928 2LO London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
(A.D. 1928)
Bertie - Donald Calthrop
Jane (Chambermaid) - Barbara Hodder(A.D. 1728)
Sir William Wormwood - Ambrose Manning
Lydia (daughter) - Barbara Hodder
Capt. Fakeham - Henry Oscar
Harry Pousher - Frederick Cooper
Other Information
Donald Calthrop (actor, presenter, producer, management, singer 1888-1940)
Parker, 1939, 385-6
Born London 11 April 1888, nephew of Dion Boucicault.
First appearance on stage Comedy Theatre 18 December 1906.
In March 1920, he entered management for the first time, at the Haymarket, producing 'The Young Person in Pink', in which he appeared as Lord Stevanage. Then he entered into management of the Comedy Theatre from September 1920, with 'The Crossing'. In November 1920 he produced 'Will You Kiss Me?' in which he played Alexander Y. Hedges. And management at the Queen's Theatre, August 1921, producing a musical play, 'My Nieces'.
In January 1922, he assumed the management of the Aldwych Theatre, and appeared as Philip Berkeley in 'Money Doesn't Matter'. Started his film career in 1919.Donald Calthrop
He was less successful, however, in a short period of collaboration with the actor Donald Calthrop, who worked as a part -time BBC producer for a brief spell between October 1925 and January 1926.
Wednesday 30 September 1925 London 10.30-11
Donald Calthrop the well-known light comedy actor as Himself
S.B. all stations
(nothing else listed)The Radio Times 6 November 1925 vol 9 no 111 p 292
David Calthrop made such a name for himself at 'Yoicks' at the Kingsway Theatre.
favourite part is Eugene Marchbanks in 'Candida'.
debut 1906 at the Comedy Theatre
one of the most enterprising of our younger actor-managers
Shakespeare revivals at the KingswayTuesday 10 November 1925 London 8.30-9.35
By arrangement with the Dickens Fellowship
The B.B.C. present
'Bardell v. Pickwick'
(The Trial Scene)
A number of well-known figures will take part including Sir Edward Marshall K.C., Sir Henry Dickens K.C. and Mr. Pett Ridge directed by Donald Calthrop and R.E. JeffreyWednesday 11 November 1925 2LO London 8.30-9.30
* 'The White Chateau' (Reginald Berkeley) (script)
(Armistice Day)
presented by R.E. Jeffrey
characters (in order of speaking)
Chronicler - Henry Oscar
Julie (maid) - Peggie Robb-Smith
Chatelaine - Mary Rorke
Jacques - Reginald Denham
Violet - Phyllis Panting
Van Eysen - Herbert Ross
Diane - Cathleen Nesbitt
General - Edmund Willard
Philip - Donald Calthrop
Spirit - Milton Rosmer
Minister for War - Victor Lewisohn
Badger - Michael Hogan
Braithwaite - Austin Trevor
The Chronicler - Henry Oscar
Private Cossington - Norman Shelley
Chancellor / Braithwaite - Douglas Jeffries
Sergeant Harvey - Eric Lugg
Colonel - Allan Wade
produced by Raymond Massey (who played Tommy Luttrell)Wednesday 13 January 1926 London 9.25-10
'Passion, Poison and Petrefaction' (Bernard Shaw)
pr Donald Calthrop
[no actors listed]Radio Times 23 September 1927 p 500
A Slap for Cinderella
By Donald Calthrop
.. the vexed question: 'Has Broadcasting affected the Theatre?'
Of course Broadcasting has affected the Theatre, and rightly so: for to my way of thinking, everything new, in the form of entertainment - from moving pictures to greyhound racing - must somehow affect us who are the purveyors of the oldest known method of drawing the nimble penny from the reluctant pocket.
We of the theatre once more have been taken unawares - this time by broadcasting. Alas, we are always being taken unawares! … Today the English Theatre, as I see it, has become a Cinderella who has grown too big for her shoes, and instead of going in for a course of exercise that would bring about a reduction of adipose mental tissue - this poor, foolish Cinderella has appeared on the scene with the right size in slippers. Twelve o'clock has sounded in her unhearing ears several times since then. It sounded not so many years ago when the 'Movies' first flickered their childish fingers, and formed infantile, but to those who had the vision, legible and significant 'writing on the wall'.
The warning note again sounded when the phonograph informed a 'listening' world with a trans-Atlantic accent that 'Dinah' could and would rhyme with Carolina. …
All these things, each in turn, have 'affected the theatre' - 'movies', phonograph, daylight saving, the War.
Now again we are told that the fateful 'midnight' hour has struck, and already theatrical managers, and the press-agents of the theatrical managers - the press-agents of the theatrical managers' press-agents - have issued their ukases and their ultimatums, and poor 'Cinderella' is still sitting idle and waiting for someone to come to her aid.
……
Give us again 'the glory of the Spoken Word', and the English Theatre will no longer have cause to fear the coming of the Microphone. Seeing may be believing, but Hearing runs it a good second, and Seeing and Hearing, honestly wedded, can face a multitude of Movies, Phonographs, and Loud Speakers, and of these three, the one gallant and honourable foe is 'Loud Speaker', for it is he who will fight for Cinderella - for, with his help, 'What the ear has heard tell of, the eye fain would see'.Monday 17 October 1927 Cardiff 7.55-8.10
'A Fool and His Money' (Laurence Housman)
A Wayside Comedy
Tim - G. Lynch Clark
Tony - Daniel Roberts
The Fool - Donald Calthrop
The time between sunset and dark when a lonely road is crossed by shadows and dim moving things, and travellers hasten to the friendliness of the nearest village. This road has high banks, above which stand great trees with gnarled and twisted roots. On a fallen tree-trunk sits Tim, an old tramp, smoking rather dejectedly. He starts up at the sound of a low whistle and awaits his pal Tony, who comes limping hurriedly towards him. Tony is younger and stronger than Tim, but both are in their setting on the hih bank between the great trees whose shadows cross the lonely road.
'Hassan' adaptation 8 November 1925 - censorship row (script of 14 Nov 1938) (notes)
cast of 24 verse and prose with interlude music, static
pr R.E. Jeffrey and David Calthrop'Hassan' adaptation 8 November 1925 - censorship row (script of 14 Nov 1938) (notes)
cast of 24 verse and prose with interlude music, static
pr R.E. Jeffrey and David Calthrop'Elstree Calling' 1930 Hitchcock
Donald Calthrop
Anna May Wong
Gordon Hawker
Jameson Thomas'Murder!' 1930 Hitchcock
Jon Stewart - Donald Calthrop
Wearing
20.36
'Just Like Judy' (Ernest Denny)
St. Martin's 11 February 1920 - 25 February 1920
17 performances
Peter Keppel - Donald Calthrop
Producer - Basil Dean20.95
'The Young Person in Pink' (Gertrude E. Jennings)
Haymarket 29 March 1920 - 17 April 1920
Aldwych 19 April 1920 - 8 May 1920
Queen's 10 May 1920 - 11 September 1920
Lord Stevenage - Donald Calthrop
Producer - Ben Webster20.294
'The Crossing' (Bertam Forsyth and Algernon Blackwood)
Comedy 29 September 1920 - 9 October 1920
13 performances
Producer - Donald Calthrop20.331
'Will You Kiss Me?' (“Cyril Harcourt”)
Comedy 16 November 1920 - 11 December 1920
30 performances
Alexander Y. Hedge - Donald Calthrop
Producer - Donald Calthrop21.55
'Polly With a Past' (George Middleton and Guy Bolton)
St. James's 2 March 1921 - 4 June 1921
Clay Collum - Noel Coward
Rex van Zile - Donald Calthrop
Mrs van Zile - Edith Evans
Producer - Gilbert Miller21.210-212
'The Dark Lady of the Sonnets' (Bernard Shaw)
Queen's 20 July 1921 - 13 August 1921
29 performaances
Presenter - Donald Calthrop21.220
'My Neices' (Percy Greenbank, lib)
founded on Sir Arthur Pinero's 'The Schoolmistress', 1886
Queen's 19 August 1921 - 1 October 1921
Aldwych 3 October 1921 - 14 January 1922
172 performances
Presenter, producer - Donald Calthrop21.347-349
'The Surprise' (Seymour Hicks)
Aldwych 15 December 1921
One matinee performance
Management - Donald Calthrop
'Keep Calm' (Patrick Denroche)
'The Night of the Bath' (Bert Lee and R.P. Weston)22.29
'Money Doesn't Matter' (Gertrude E. Jennings)
Aldwych 31 January 1922 - 11 March 1922
46 performances
Philip Berkeley - Donald Calthrop
Management, producer - Donald Calthrop22.39-42
'Jeanette' (Frederick C. Patterson)
Aldwych 14 February 1922
One matinee performance
Management - Donald Calthrop
'Op-O'-Me-Thumb' (Frederick Fenn and Richard Pryce)
'L'Etincelle' (Edouard Pailleron)
'The Morden Luck' (J.B. Sterndale-Bennett)
Girl - Athene Seyler22.51
'Me and My Diary' (Gertrude E. Jennings)
Aldwych
22 February 1922 - 11 March 1922
22 performances
Management - Donald Calthrop22.99
'The White-Headed Boy' (Lennox Robinson)
Aldwych 8 April 1922 - 29 April 1922
24 performances
George - George Dillon
Peter - John C. Bland
Dennis - Parker K. Lynch
Donough Broasnan - Desmond O'Donovan
John Duffy - Fred O'Donovan
Mrs Geoghegan - Mignon O'Doherty
Kate - Kitty Kirwan
Jane - Kathleen Moran
Baby - Muriel Allen
Delia - Una O'Neill
Hannah - Kitty McVeigh
Aunt Ellen - Sara Allgood
Management - Donald Calthrop22.145
'Thirty Minutes in a Street' (Beatrice Mayor)
Drury Lane 16 May 1922
One performance
Student - Leslie Henson
Professor - Nigel Playfair
Curate - O.B. Clarence
Elderly Gentleman - Norman Forbes
Musician - C. Hayden Coffin
Husband - Nicholas Hannen
Actor - Donald Calthrop
Stray man - Harry Green
Man With Boy - Ralph Lynn
Young Man - Roy Royston
Girl - Barbara Hoffe
Short-Sighted Lady - Ellen Terry
Rich Lady - Winifred Emery
1st Shop Girl - Meggie Albanesi
Housewife - Mary Jerrold
French Woman - Yvonne Arnauld
2nd Charwoman - Gertrude Lawrence
Old Lady - Lady Tree
Visitor - Fay Compton
Flag-Day Organizer - Cathleen Nesbitt
1st Charwoman - Mary Merrall
Child - Theresa Mayor
Etc.
(charity)22.151
'A Prodigal Daughter' (Harold Alfred Gurney)
Aldwych 15 May 1922 - 20 May 1922
5 performances
Ralph Grantham - Donald Calthrop
Management - Donald Calthrop22.227
'Double - Or Quit!' (theophilus Charlton)
Aldwych 4 September 1922 - 30 September 1922
Kingsway 2 October 1922 - 7 October 1922
Apollo 9 October 1922 - 21 October 1922
56 performances
Hon Edward Dereham - Donald Calthrop
Producer, management - Donald Calthrop22.274
'Little Lovers' (Esme Wynne-Tyson)
Aldwych 22 October 1922
One performance
Denis Woode - Henry Oscar
Management - Donald Calthrop23.150-151
'Eliza Comes To Stay' (H.V. Esmond)
Duke of York's 14 June 1923 - 7 July 1923
27 performances
Hon. Sandy Verrall - Donald Caltrop
Pres - Donald Calthrop
'Ha! Ha!' (Hugh E. Wright)
ditto
11 performances
Cyril Carthews - Donald Caltrop23.184-5
'Rosalind' (J.M. Barrie)
Adelphi 13 July 1923 - 25 August 1923
50 performances
Charles - Donald Calthrop
Presenter, Producer - Donald Calthrop(see 20.95)
'The Young Person in Pink' (Gertrude E. Jennings)
Adelphi 13 July 1923 - 25 August 1923
Criterion 27 August 1923 - 6 October 1923
Lord Stevenage - Donald Calthrop
Producer as above23.255
'Twelfth Night' (Shakespeare)
Kingsway 3 November 1923 onwards
60 performances
Feste - Henry Caine
Malvolio - Balliol Holloway
Producer - Donald Calthrop23.261
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Shakespeare)
Kingsway 13 November 1923 onwards
23 matinee performances
Bottom - Baliol Holloway
Titania - Athene Seyler
Presenter, producer - Donald Calthrop24.12
'The Very Idea' (William Le Baron)
Kingsway 11 January 1924 - 19 January 1924
10 performances
Gilbert Goodhue - Donald Calthrop
George Green - Balliol Holloway
Presenter, producer - Donald Calthrop24.82
'Kate Or Love Will Find Out The Way' (F.G. Weston (lyr) and Gerrard Williams (mus))
Kingsway 25 February 1924 - 22 March 1924
31 performances
Producer - Donald Calthrop24.229
'Yoicks!' (Revue) (J. Hastings Turner)
Kingsway 11 June 1924 - 14 February 1925
266 performances
List of cast
Producer - Donald Calthrop26.255
26.307
'Elstree Calling' 1930 Hitchcock
Donald Calthrop
Anna May Wong
Gordon Hawker
Jameson Thomas'Murder!' 1930 Hitchcock
Jon Stewart - Donald Calthrop
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