- (1923) Stage: Appeared in "Jack and Jill" on Broadway. Musical comedy.
- (1924) Stage: Wrote (w/Philip Braham, Noël Coward, Eubie Blake, Bert Lee) music for "Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924", produced on Broadway. Musical revue. Conceived by André Charlot. Book by Dion Titheradge and Jack Hulbert. Lyrics by Noël Coward, Douglas Furber, Eric Blore, Ronald Jeans, Noble Sissle, R.P. Weston, Collie Knox and Norah Blaney. Musical Director: Philip Braham; Additional lyrics by Dion Titheradge, Clifford Seyler and Bob Alden. Additional music by Bob Alden. Choreographed by David Bennett. Scenic Design by Marc Henri and Laverdet. Costume Design by G.K. Benda, Lenief, Louise Boulanger and Guy deGerald. Directed by Andre Charlot and Douglas Furber. Times Square Theatre (moved to the Selwyn Theatre 21 Apr 1924- cir. Aug 1924, then returned The Times Square Theatre from 1 Sep 1924-close): 9 Jan 1924-20 Sep 1924 (298 performances). Cast: Ethel Barbour, Marjorie Brooks, Jack Buchanan, Constance Carpenter, Wyn Clare, Marjorie Cogle, Lalla Collins, Dorothy Dolman, Gwen Egdell, Douglas Furber, Dore Hanbury, Elvira Henderson, Robert Hobbs, June Kennedy, Gertrude Lawrence, Fred Leslie, Beatrice Lillie [Broadway debut], Olive Lindfield, June Mackay, Jessie Matthews, Ida Mowbray, Herbert Mundin, Guido Orlando, Ida Parkinson, Edith Price, Ruth Raymonde, Barbara Roberts, Queenie Robertson, Bobbie Storey, Milton Thomas, Ronald Ward, John Webster, Jill Williams, Peggy Willoughby, Sybil Wilson, Eve Wynne. Produced by The Selwyns.
- (1925) Stage: Wrote "The Rat", produced on Broadway. Directed by Earl Carroll. New Colonial Theatre: 10 Feb 1925-May 1925 (closing date unknown/126 performances). Cast: Basil Allis, Suzanne Bennett, Horace Braham (as "Pierre Boucheron," aka "The Rat"), Ruth Chandler, C.H. Croker-King, Jeanne Dare, Dana Desboro, Jack de Fay, Florence Gerald, Teddie Gerard, Bryant Higgins, Warren Hill, Elizabeth Howard, C. Barry Kenton, Hilda Lappner, Wallace McCutcheon, George McKay, Jack Motte, Frances Nanine, Roberta Pierre, Katherine Revner, Chris Scaife, Helen Sinnott, Cyrus Staehle, Grace Stafford, Lucille Upton, Jeanne Wardley. NOTE: Filmed as The Rat (1937), The Triumph of the Rat (1926), The Rat (1925).
- (1925) Stage: Wrote music for "Fallen Babies" song in "Charlot Revue", produced on Broadway. Musical revue. Music for "How D'You Do?," "Let's All Go Raving Mad," "Follow Master Cook" and "Oxford Bags" by Philip Braham. Lyrics for "How D'You Do?" by Eric Blore. Lyrics for "How D'You Do?" and "Gigolette" by Dion Titheradge. Lyrics for "Let's All Go Raving Mad" by Hugh E. Wright. "Buying a Hat" and "Wine--A Romantic Reverie" written by Douglas Furber. Music for "Mouse! Mouse!" and "Susannah's Squeaking Shoes" by Muriel Lillie. Lyrics for "Mouse! Mouse!" by Hilda Brighton. Music and lyrics for "The Mender of Broken Dreams" by John W. Bratton. Music for "The Fox Has Left His Lair" by Peggy Connor. Lyrics for "The Fox Has Left His Lair" and "Follow Master Cook" by Douglas Furber. Lyrics for "Fallen Babies" by Ronald Jeans. Music for "Gigolette" by Franz Lehár. Lyrics for "Gigolette" and "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You" by Irving Caesar. Lyrics for "Susannah's Squeaking Shoes" by Arthur Weigall. Music for "Carrie!," "Russian Blues" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" by Noël Coward. Lyrics for "Carrie!," "Russian Blues" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" by Noel Coward and "A Cup of Coffee" written by Ronald Jeans. Music and lyrics for "Take Them All Away" by Jack Strachey. Music for "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You" by Joseph Meyer. Lyrics for "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You" by Al Dubin and Billy Rose. "References" written by Harold Simpson and Morris Harvey. "Methods of Barberism" written by Arthur Wimperis. Music for "Sealed Feet" by Charles Prentice. Lyrics for "Oxford Bags" by Arthur Wimperis. Dances and ensembles arranged by Jack Buchanan. "Sealed Feet" devised and directed by Quentin Tod. Selwyn Theatre: 10 Nov 1925-6 Mar 1926 (138 performances). Cast: Jack Buchanan, Gertrude Lawrence, Beatrice Lillie, Herbert Mundin, Effie Atherton, Phyllis Austen, Betty Barbour, Gladys Barclay, Violet Beck, Yvonne Bose, Vera Braund, Constance Carpenter, Wyn Clare Chorus, Mollie Crafter, Velma Deane, Billey Edis, Eric Fawsett, Violet Hanbury, Aida Holland, Fenner Irving, Marianne Karelina, Lola Mende, Ida Parkinson, George Pughe, Rhoda Sewell, Hugh Sinclair, Cavenda Stainslaw, Betty Stockfeld, Vivienne Vanetta, Pansy Wilde, Jill Williams, Eve Wynne, Hazel Wynne. Produced by Archibald Selwyn.
- (1930) Stage: Wrote / appeared in "Symphony in Two Flats" on Broadway. Comedy. NOTE: Filmed as Symphony in Two Flats (1930).
- (1930) Stage Play: The Truth Game. Comedy. Written by Ivor Novello. Directed by G. Hamilton Gay. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 27 Dec 1930- Mar 1931 (closing date unknown/107 performances). Cast: Albert G. Andrews (as "Sir Joshua Grimshaw"), Dorothie Bigelow (as "Vera Crombie"), Billie Burke (as "Evelyn Brandon"), Gwen Day Burroughs (as "Harris"), Forbes Dawson (as "Lord Straffield"), Phoebe Foster (as "Rosine Browne"), Jean Fullarton (as "Atkins"), Gerald McCarthy (as "Sir George Kelvin"), Burton McEvilly (as "James Hubbard"), Ivor Novello (as "Max Clement"), Viola Tree (as "The Lady Joan Culver"). Produced by Lee Shubert. Note: Filmed by MGM as -But the Flesh Is Weak (1932), and again by MGM as Free and Easy (1941).
- (1933) Stage Play: A Party. Written by Ivor Novello. Scenic Design by Livingston Platt. Directed by Anthony John. Playhouse Theatre: 23 Aug 1933-Oct 1933 (closing date unknown/45 performances). Cast: Margaret Anderson, J.W. Austin (as "Lord Ellerton/Guy"), Lora Baxter, Leo Beers, E.H. Bender, Edward Broadley (as "Clutter"), Mrs. Patrick Campbell (as "Mrs. MacDonald"), Reginald Carrington (as "Harley Angel"), Jane Corcoran (as "Mrs. Lynch"), Edward Crandall, Betsy Culp, Charles Dalton, Elizabeth Dewing, Brenda Forbes (as "Eva"), Helen Glenn, Winifred Harris (as "Esme Riddle"), Storrs Haynes, Mary Heberden, Wilfred Jessop (as "Powys"), Betty Linley, Cecilia Loftus (as "Cecilia Loftus"), Nelly Malcolm, Lucille Manners, May Marshall, Florence Pierson, Arthur Porter (as "Guest at the Party"), Olive Reeves-Smith (as "Fay Strube"), Paddy Reynolds, Margot Stevenson (as "Lady Bay-Clender/Rosie"), Kenneth Treseder (as "Arthur Fowle"), Dan Thew Wright (as "Guest at the Party"). Produced by William A. Brady and Samuel Nirdlinger.
- (1936) Stage: Wrote "Fresh Fields", produced on Broadway. Comedy. Directed by Alfred De Liagre Jr.. Empire Theatre: 10 Feb 1936-Apr 1936 (closing date unknown/80 performances). Cast: Margaret Anglin (as "Lady Mary Crabbe"), Boyd Davis (as "Tom Larcomb"), Agnes Doyle (as "Una Pidgeon"), Derek Fairman (as "Tim Crabbe"), Jessamine Newcombe (as "Mrs. Pidgeon"), Audrey Ridgwell (as "Miss Swaine"), Mary Sargent (as "Lady Lilian Bedworthy"), Lillian Talbot (as "Lady Strawholme"), Philip Tonge (as "Ludlow"). Produced by Richard Aldrich and Alfred De Liagre Jr.
- (3/15/37) Stage: Appeared at the The Vic-Wells Coronation Year Ball at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London, England, with Lilian Baylis, Leslie Banks, Edith Evans, Harold Turner, Robert Helpmann, Mary Honer, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards, Charles B. Cochran in the cast. Ninette De Valois was choreographer. Edith Evans and Laurence Olivier presented prizes. Charles B. Cochran, Leslie Banks and he were judges for the Fancy Dress Parade.
- Playwright: "When Boys Leave Home" (filmed as Downhill (1927))
- (1929) Stage: Was assistant writer for Ronald Jeans' and Douglas Furber's revue, "R.S.V.P.", at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England, with Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Helen Burnell, Irene Russell, Bobbie Comber, Robert Naylor and Ivor McLaren in the cast. Vivian Ellis and Arthur Schwartz were also the writers.
- (4/16/24-6/24) Stage: Harold Fraser-Simson and his musical, "Our Nell," was performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London, England, with Jose Collins, Robert Michaelis, Kingley Lark, Arthur Wontner, Muriel Pope, Walter Passmore, Amy Augarde, Miles Malleson, Faith Bevan and Sanders Warren in the cast.
- (6/9/24-8/24) Stage: Wrote (w/'David L'Estrange') / appeared in the musical, "The Rat", at the Prince of Wales' Theatre in London, England, with Isabel Jeans, W. Cronin Wilson, Dorothy Batley, Kathleen Grace, Jean Webster-Brough, Nancy Pawley and Hannah Jones in the cast.
- (1939) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical, "The Dancing Years", at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, England, with Mary Ellis, Minnie Rayner, Roma Beaumont, Olive Gilbert, Frances Clare and Anthony Nicholls in the cast. Leontine Sagan was the director.
- (11/40) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical, "The Dancing Years", at the Leeds Grand Theatre in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with Roma Beaumont, Minnie Rayner, Barry Sinclair, Muriel Barron, Victor Bogetti, Frances Clare, Dunstan Hart and Olive Gilbert in the cast.
- (1945) Stage: Wrote / appeared in his musical, "Perchance to Dream", at the London Hippodrome in London, England,, with Olive Gilbert, Margaret Rutherford, Roma Beaumont and Robert Andrews in the cast.
- (1946) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical "Perchance to Dream", at the London Hippodrome Theatre in London, England, with Dunstan Hart, Olive Gilbert, Victor Bogetti, Zena Dare, Roma Beaumont and Muriel Barron in the cast. Jack Minster was the director.
- (1947) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical, "Perchance to Dream", at the London Hippodrome Theatre in London, England, with Olive Gilbert, Zena Dare and Muriel Barron in the cast.
- (1949) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical, "King's Rhapsody", at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, England, with Zena Dare, Phyllis Dare, Olive Gilbert and Vanessa Lee in the cast.
- (1950) Stage: Wrote / appeared in the musical, "King's Rhapsody", at the Palace Theatre in London, England, with Zena Dare, Phyllis Dare, Olive Gilbert and Vanessa Lee in the cast.
- (1951) Stage: Wrote "Gay's the Word", a musical, was performed at the Saville Theatre in London, England, with Cicely Courtneidge, Elizabeth Webb, Thorley Walters and Maidie Andrews in the cast.
- (August 1936) His play, "Fresh Fields," was performed at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Margaret Anglin in the cast.
- (December 7 to 18, 1937) His play, "Fresh Fields," was performed at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Gilmor Brown was artistic director. William Williams was director.
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