Pick-Up Girl
Queen Mary’s visit to this play when it was presented in club conditions (Saturday matinee, 25th May 1946) was reputed to have swayed the Lord Chamberlain in lifting the ban on it for public exhibition, leading to its West End transfer in July. (‘As Hannen Swaffer Sees It’, The People 23rd June 1946, page 2.)
Doreen Hughes left the cast in order to play the leading role, Elizabeth Collins, in Tom Arnold’s first touring production of the play, which began at the Palace Theatre, Reading on 2nd September 1946.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Alexander Elliott | Wallace Alward |
|---|---|
| Court Clerk | Jerry Walker |
| Door Attendant | Dermot Palmer |
| Elizabeth Collins [New Lindsey] | Jessica Spencer |
| Elizabeth Collins [West End] | Patricia Plunkett |
| Jackie Polumbo | Malcolm Summers |
| Jean | Molly Palmer |
| Judge Bentley | Ernest Jay |
| Larry Webster | Phillip Hillman |
| Mary | Doreen Hughes |
| Miss Porter | Margot van der Burgh |
| Miss Russell | Margaret Garner |
| Mr Brill | John Perrin |
| Mr Collins | Hugh Pryse |
| Mrs Busch | Natalie Lynn |
| Mrs Collins | Joan Miller |
| Mrs Marti | Ilona Ference |
| Peter Marti | David Markham |
| Policeman Owens | Paul Erickson |
| Ruby Lockwood | Maria Charles |
| Ruby Lockwood [occasional replacement] | Molly Palmer |
| [original New Lindsey cast] | Basil Coleman |
| [original New Lindsey cast] | Peter Cotes |
| [original New Lindsey cast] | Desmond Ryan |
| Mary [replacement] | Patricia Owens
(started August 1946) |
Crew | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Jerry Walker |
| Decor | Richard Lake |
| Director / Producer | Peter Cotes |
| Presented by (New Lindsey) | Frederick Piffard |
| Presented by (West End) | Tom Arnold |
| Scenery built by | Harry Delvin |
| Scenery painted by | Edward Delany |
| Stage Director | Paul Erickson |
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