AT THE SILVER SWAN a musical play in 2 acts by Guy Bolton and Percival Mackay based on The Highwayman - by Edmond Samuels and Henry C. James; Music by Edmond Samuels. Palace Theatre, London - 19th February - 4th April, 1936 (51 perfs) SYNOPSIS Set in the 1870s Australian outback, Terry Burke is a fellow with an eye for the ladies, and manages to have them all falling at his feet. The two most smitten are Frenchwoman Alice Brevanne and an English girl, Mary Weston. When it turns out that Mary is actually Alice’s long-lost sister, the noble, sensible Aliceallows her younger sister to get the prize of marrying Terry. A sub-plot involved Sergei Tonicoff and Katja, comical foreigners adrift in Australian culture, and a dance speciality act, Lucienne and Ashor, who get involved in a bar-fight, a kind of “Outback Apache” which was sensationally violent, and spectacularly acrobatic and brought the house down at every performance. MUSICAL NUMBERS 1. Overture 2. Jackaroo 3. Bushranger 4. Boomerang 5. Gorgeous 6. The Man I Adore 7. Drink boys, drink 8. I'm the belle of the '50s 9. Gold, god of the world 10. Don't you think it's romantic? 11. I'm the girl who doesn't mind a bit of nonsense 12. Song of the gold-diggers 13. Song of the bush 14. Song of the highwayman 15. She's in love with a highwayman 16. Ladies of fashion 17. She's mine, all mine! 18. Waltz divine. CAST • Joe Hendricks - John Barker • Town Crier - Richard Tope • John Pritchard - Cecil G. Calvert • Bill Lauder - Billy Holland • Doc Weston - Sebastian Smith • Katja - Magda Kun • Bella - Lorna Cottrell • Miss Hosking - Mollie Hartley-Milburn • Sergei Tonieoff - Steve Geray • Terry Burke - Bruce Carfax • Mary Weston - (Mollie Johnstone) Marta Labarr • Jack Burridge - Jack Barty • Alice Brevanne - Alice Delysia • Toinette - Yvonne Le Dain • Blaekie Malone - John Dudley • Hawkeye - Herbert Ward • Captain of Tender - Charles Tully • Norah - Constance Edwards • Boy - Mabel Hubbard • Girl - Rosie Youngmans
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