sentences:  Other famous works presented at the Savoy included the première of Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" (1941, which ran 1,997 consecutive performances, setting a new record for non-musical theatre runs), Robert Morley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner", and several comedies by William Douglas-Home starring, among others, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, and John Mills.The long-delayed first public performance in England of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" played at the theatre in 1931.After Rupert D'Oyly Carte died in 1948 his daughter, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, succeeded to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and became a director and later president of the Savoy Hotel group, which controlled the theatre.