The Midshipmaid (play)

The Midshipmaid is a 1931 British comedy play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, which ran for 227 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End. The following year Hay wrote a novel based on the play.

Original cast

 * Able Seaman Pook -	A.W. Baskcomb
 * Bandmaster Tappett	- Roger Maxwell
 * Celia Newbiggin -	Jane Baxter
 * Commander ffosbery	- Basil Foster
 * Cora Golightly	- Marjorie Playfair
 * Corporal of Marines/Leading Torpedoman Huggins	- Henry Thompson
 * Dora Golightly	- Kathleen Kelly
 * Guest - Nancy Russell
 * Instructor Lt. Commander Tomkinson	- Peter Mather
 * Lady Mildred Martyn - Mary Clare
 * Lord Chinley -	Terence Downing
 * Lt. Commander Valentine - Charlton Morton
 * Lt. Kingsford - Edward Harben
 * Lucy -	Ivy des Voeux
 * Major Spink - Michael Shepley
 * Marine Bundy - S. Victor Stanley
 * Marine Robbins	- D.J. Williams
 * Marine Smith - Albert Arlen
 * Midshipman Golightly - Humphrey Morton
 * Sick Bay Attendant Slingsby/Leading Stoker Hammond	- Oliver Gordon
 * Sir Percy Newbiggin -	Clive Currie

Film adaptation
In 1932 it was made into a film of the same title by Gainsborough Pictures, starring Jessie Matthews and Basil Sydney.