Collits' Inn

Collits' Inn
Music	Varney Monk
Lyrics	Varney Monk
Book	T. Stuart Gurr
Productions	1932 Savoy Theatre Sydney[1] 1933 Princess Theatre Melbourne[2] 1934 New Tivoli Sydney[3]

Collits' Inn is a Australian musical play. The 1933 Melbourne production at the Princess Theatre was presented by F.W. Thring and starred Gladys Moncrieff, George Wallace, Claude Flemming and Campbell Copelin. Thring intended to make a movie out of the play but died in 1936 before he had the chance to shoot little more than sound tests.^{[4] [5]} A six-minute sound test of Gladys Moncrieff and Robert Chisolm singing 'While the Stars Are Shining', with a spoken introduction by Frank Harvey survives.^[6]

References

1. ^ 1932 Savoy Theatre Sydney production at Ausstage
2. ^ 1933 Melbourne production at Ausstage
3. ^ 1934 New Tivoli Sydney production at Ausstage
4. ^ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency, 1989 p122
5. ^ 'ENGLISH PLAYS To be Filmed in Melbourne', The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 12 January 1934 p 6
6. ^ Clip at National Film and Sound Archive

External Links

• Article on Collits' Inn'
• It's Australian and It's Good article on history of the show by John Thompson at National Library of Australia News