Anne: "Oh, think Beauty" Finale The stone is rolled away from the Star-cave. The scene is brightened by the entrance of the Sprites, and the humans enter. The ghost of Miss Waghorn enters 'clothed in light'. Song 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder): Jane Anne (Laugher): Duet Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder): The Star of Bethlehem rises while the melody of the Christmas carol "The First Nowell" merges into the music. Contemporary review Review from the weekly magazine "Punch", 5 January 1916. The reviewer, the drama critic Joseph Thorp, used to sign himself "T". Curiously, Clytie Hine, 'The Laugher', gets no mention. The Musical Times thought well of her. The Starlight Express Daddy .............. O. B. Clarence Mother ............. Ruth Maitland Grannie ............ Una O'Connor Jimbo ............... Ronald Hammond Monkey ............ Elsie Hall Jane Anne ........ Mercia Cameron Cousin Henry .... Owen Roughwood Mme Jequier ..... Juliette Mylo Miss Waghorn ... Mary Barton Tramp ............... Charles Mott Legacy The Starlight Express was not the only collaboration of Blackwood and Pearn. Note Karma: A Re-Incarnation Play in Prologue, Epilogue & Three Acts. London: Macmillan, 1918 and New York: E.P. Dutton, 1918. "A love story re-enacted through four existences." Through The Crack (an adaptation of The Education of Uncle Paul by Blackwood). London and New York: Samuel French. Produced at Christmas 1920, then in 1925. On 22 May 1918, Lance Corporal Charles James Mott, the successful singer in that first production of The Starlight Express was in the London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) when he was mortally wounded by a German shell-burst. He was 37. Elgar, writing to a friend, said "It is difficult to believe that Charles Mott is dead; dead of wounds in France. I am overwhelmed: a simple, honest GOOD soul." In 1933 the conductor Joseph Lewis constructed from the score a 40-minute selection from The Starlight Express which he conducted in several BBC radio broadcasts. But his score and other valuable BBC material was destroyed in an air-raid in 1940. In September 1940 the Kingsway Theatre was damaged by fire in an air raid. All The Starlight Express stage props and music (conductor's score and orchestra parts) was destroyed. However, Elgar had left his manuscript full score of the music with the publishers, Messrs Elkin & Co., and apart from memories and reviews, this became the only surviving remnant. Fortunately this score also contained many