featuring Emlyn Williams in the cast. 1930 – The Duchess hosted the shortest run in West End history when The Intimate Revue closed without completing its first performance. 1932 – Frank Vosper starred as King Henry VII in The Rose Without a Thorn and Jessica Tandy and Cathleen Nesbitt appeared in Christa Winsloe's Children in Uniform (opened October 7), directed by Leontine Sagan. 1933 – J B Priestley's Laburnum Grove. 1934 – J B Priestley joined the management of the theatre, producing his own play Eden End with Ralph Richardson. 1935 – Cornelius, again by Priestley and starring Richardson, and the psychological thriller Night Must Fall with Emlyn Williams as both author and star. 1936 – Murder in the Cathedral by T S Eliot. 1937 – Time and the Conways, again by Priestley. 1939 – Emlyn Williams's The Corn Is Green, starring the author and Sybil Thorndike, was playing at the time of compulsory closure due to the outbreak of war. The Playboy of the Western World. 1942 – Skylark with John Clements and Constance Cummings. Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, with Margaret Rutherford, transferred from the Piccadilly Theatre to complete a run of 1,997 performances. 1947 – Priestley's The Linden Tree with Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike played 400 performances. 1948 – Angela Baddeley in a revival of Eden End. 1949 – Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike were re-united in The Foolish Gentlewoman. 1950 – The Holly and the Ivy by Wynyard Browne, featured Bryan Forbes. 1951 – Thora Hird and Dandy Nichols in Happy Family. 1952 – Kenneth More and Peggy Ashcroft in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea. 1954 – The Manor of Northstead by William Douglas Home 1955 – The Scandalous Affair of Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon, a comedy in three acts by J. B. Priestley. 1958 – The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie. 1960 – Harold Pinter's first West End success The Caretaker with Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates. 1961 – Impresario Peter Saunders acquired the lease, coinciding with a transfer of Good Night Mrs Puffin. 1962 – Rule of Three by Agatha Christie. 1963 – Bill Naughton's Alfie and the return of Sybil Thorndike in William Douglas-Home's The Reluctant Peer. 1965 – The long-running Boeing Boeing transferred from the Apollo. 1967 – Wait Until Dark. 1969 – The musical Dames at Sea and The Old Ladies starring Joyce Carey, Joan Miller and Flora Robson.