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Performance TitleVic-Wells Coronation Year Ball in aid of The Vic Wells' Building Debts' Fund and The Five Year Plan For The Vic Wells' Ballet
Performance Date15 March 1937
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time21:30
Main PerformersJudges:
Ivor Novello
Charles B.Cochran
Leslie Banks - judges

Edith Evans
Laurence Olivier
Leslie Banks
Zena Dare
Dorothy Dickson
Leslie Henson
Percy Heming
Margaret Rawlings
Emlyn Williams
Constance Willis - prize-givers

Ninette De Valois,
Frederick Ashton,
Margot Fonteyn,
Mary Honer,
Elizabeth Miller,
June Brae,
Pamela May,
Harold Turner,
William Chappell,
Claude Newman,
Lady Plunket,
Robert Helpmann,
Jill Gregory,
Molly Brown,
Guinevere Parry,
Laurel Martyn,
Joy Newton,
Peggy Melliss,
Gwyneth Matthews,
Joy Robson,
Richard Ellis,
Michael Somes,
Leslie Edwards,
Paul Reyloff - dance arrangers

Miss Volkman - fortune teller
Set List'Homage Aux Belles Viennoises', Schubert, orch. Constant Lambert (Elizabeth Miller, Mary Honer, Harold Turner, Margot Fonteyn, June Brae, Pamela May, Robert Helpmann, Jill Gregory, Molly Brown, Guinevere Parry, Laurel Martyn, Joy Newton, Peggy Melliss, Gwyneth Matthews, Joy Robson, Richard Ellis, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards and Paul Reyloff)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1937/20)
Handbill (RAHE/6/1937/6)
Ticket Prices10s 6d
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1937/20The Vic-Wells Coronation Year Ball15 March 1937
RAHE/6/1937/6Old Vic and Sadlers Wells Theatres - Seventeenth Annual Fancy Dress Dance 15 March 1937
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OwbogieravifevVic-Wells Coronation Year Ball, in aid of The Vic Wells' Building Debts' Fund and The Five Year Plan For The Vic Wells' Ballet1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1451The Royal Ballet; 1931-; British classical ballet company
DS/UK/3516Novello; Ivor (15 January 1893-6 March 1951); Welsh composer and actor
DS/UK/3517Olivier; Lord; Laurence Kerr (1907-1989); OM; English actor, director, producer
DS/UK/3518Ashton; Sir; Frederick (17 September 1904-18 August 1988); OM CH CBE; Ecuadorean-born British ballet dancer and choreographer
DS/UK/3519De Valois; Dame; Ninette (6 June 1898-8 March 2001); OM CH DBE; Irish-born British dancer, choreographer and director of classical ballet
DS/UK/3462Cochran; Charles Blake (1872-1951); English theatrical manager
DS/UK/3520Fonteyn; Dame; Margot (1919-1991); DBE; English ballerina
DS/UK/3521Banks; Leslie (1890-1952); CBE; English theatre and cinema actor, director, producer
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