The Midshipmaid (play)
# 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.

