January 1924

 

 

Tuesday 15 January 1924   London  7.30-9.15

London ‘An Evening of Plays produced by Mr. Nigel Playfair’  7.30-9.15   

Vachel Lindsay, ‘The Blacksmith’s Serenade’;

Jane Austen, ‘The Proposal Scene from Pride and Prejudice’;

Richard Hughes, ‘A Comedy of Danger’ (Author of ‘The Sisters’ Tragedy’)

A.P. Herbert, ‘The Annual Dinner’

Incidental music by the “2LO London” Light Orchestra  (S.B. to Glasgow)  (script)

Listing in ‘The Daily Mirror’

Plays arranged and produced by Nigel Playfair

(A.P. Herbert) ‘Ladies Night or the Annual Dinner of the National Society for Eating Less Meat’

 

 

 

February 1924

 

15 February 1924 London 7.30-9.15

‘Hamlet’ (Shakespeare)

 

Tuesday 19 February 1924 London  8.20-9.30

(1)  ‘The Tragedy of Mr Punch’  (Reginald Arkell and Russell Thorndike)

Lewis Casson, Dame May Whitty as His Wife

prologue

(Little Theatre 15 December 1920 to 19 March 1921)

Blind Man - Lewis Casson

Punch - Russell Thorndike

First Girl - Elizabeth Arkell

Judy - Sybil Thorndike

produced by Lewis Casson

(2)  ‘Columbine’ (Reginald Arkell)

 

 

March 1924

 

 

April 1924

 

 

 

1 April 1924 Casson     2LO London S.B. to other stations     7.30-9.30

An evening of plays produced by Lewis Casson

(1)      ‘Box and Cox’ (John Maddison Morton) (first performed at the Lyceum 1 November 1847)

(2)     ‘The Death of Tintageles’ (Maeterlinck)

(3)     ‘The Man Who Sang In His Bath’ (Richard Hughes)

 

 

Tuesday 11 April 1924  London  7.30-9.30 London

An Evening of Plays  produced by Milton Rosmer

(1)     'Five Birds in a Cage'  (Gertrude Jennings) with Athena Seyler ®

(2)     'The Rising of the Moon' (Lady Gregory) (first performed at the Abbey, Dublin 9 March 1907 and at the Court 10 June 1921)

(3)     'Postal Orders' (Roland Pertwee)

 

 

 

May 1924

 

 

RT 9 May 1924  p 270 

Tuesday 13 May 1924  7.30-9.30 London and S.B.

Dramatic Evening

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’  (Oscar Wilde)

performed by The Station Repertory Company

(performed at the Haymarket 21 November 1923 to 12 January 1924)

 

 

June 1924

 

 

 

Wednesday 25 June 1924 London 8-

An Evening of Plays Performed by the International One-Act Players

‘The Stepmother’ (Arnold Bennett)

‘The Escape’ (E.F. Parr)

‘The Maker of Dreams’ (Oliphant Down)

 

 

 

July 1924

 

July 1924

Dramatics Department started in London (Briggs)

Arrival of R.E. Jeffrey from Aberdeen

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 9 July 1924 London 9.20-

Two one-act comedies

‘Two On A Bus’ (Herbert Swears)

Sam Twyford – Herbert Swears

Kitty – Amy Brandon-Thomas

‘Widows’ (Herbert Swears)

Mrs Smith – Agnes Thomas

Mrs Pink – Clare Greet

Mrs Yobb – Helena Millais

 

 

 

 

August 1924

 

 

 

September 1924

 

 

 

 

October 1924

 

 

Monday 6 October 1924  London 9-9.30

Winner of competition

Prize Winning Play

*  ‘Hunt the Tiger’ (H.A. Hering of London)

£50 prize plot of a very novel character peculiarly suited for wireless transmission

Monsieur Jules (an inventor)  - Fisher White

Edmond Savine (a poet from Brittany) - Kenneth Kent

scene: Paris The drawing-room in the House of Mons December 1781

Mademoiselle de Vincennes (a lady of the court) - Irene Rooke

Monsieur Jules finds a would-be suicide on the streets of Paris, invites them to his flat and suggests his novel way of relieving them of the burden of life.

 

 

November 1924

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 18 November 1924 London  7.30-9.30

London Shakespeare Night

Excerpts from ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

Dramatic Director  R.E. Jeffrey

Katherina - Joy Chatwynd

Hortensio / Tailor - Tarver Penna

Grumio - George Baxter

Petrucchio - R.E. Jeffrey

 

 

20 November 1924 London  8.30

G.B.Shaw reads ‘O’Flaherty  V.C.’

‘G.B.S. Lectures the B.B.C.’ RT 14 November 1924 p 357 (photocopy)

He is going to read ‘O’Flaherty V.C.’ and explain the situations and the dialogue in exactly the same way as he would to a company of actors who were going to undertake the play in production.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 1924

 

 

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