 "The Lady of the Rose" (Jean Gilbert, 1922), "Madame Pompadour" (Fall, 1923) and "Cleopatra" (Oscar Straus, 1925), all starring Evelyn Laye, were well reviewed.In 1927 the theatre's policy of presenting musicals was briefly and disastrously abandoned in favour of Noël Coward's play "Sirocco", which according to Mander and Michenson was a failure so abject as to have passed into stage history.White, overwhelmed with debts, killed himself in 1927 and the following year the theatre was bought by Isidore W. Schlesinger.