January 1925

 

One act plays adapted from stage

 

Wednesday 7 January 1925 London 7.40-8.10

(1)  ‘The Day Dream’ a comedy in verse (Sidney Lewis Ransom)

pr (no billing)

Ismarie (The Maid) - Allison Leggatt

Rochelle (The Duchess) - Dorothy Pantling

Faunus (The Statue) - S.L. Ransom

Fontaine (The Friend) - Tarver Penna

Hercules (The Duke)  - G.E. Bellamy

scene: the Duke’s garden   date: 1700

 

Wednesday 7 January 1925 London 7.40-8.10

(2)  ‘The Abbe and the Maid’ (Charles Messent)

pr (no billing)

Abbe Liszt - Henry Oscar

Pierre Beaumont - Tarver Penna

Marchioness Hautant - Joyce Tremayne

Marie Jaumene - Allison Leggatt

scene: Hotel Lille   date: 1869

 

 

 

Wednesday 28 January 1925 London

Music Comedy and Drama

Plays produced by R.E. Jeffrey

(1)  7.50-8.20

Repeat Transmission in Response to Very Many Requests

* ® ‘Danger’ The Mine Play (Richard Hughes)

(2)  8.40-9

‘A Quarter of an Hour’s Quiet Meditiation’ a suburban incident (Robert Magill)

 

 

 

 

Thursday 14 May 1925 London 8.45-9

‘The Mother’ one act (Olive Lethbridge)

Jim Alban - Raymond Trafford

Mary (wife)  - Phyllis Panting

 

 

 

Friday 26 June 1925  2LO London London  9-9.30

‘A Sister to Assist ‘Er’ (sketch) (John Le Breton)

Mrs. May (a charlady)  - Louis Hertel

Mrs. McMull (her landlady)  - Helena Millais

Times p 8:

A sketch of John Le Breton’s extremely successful a few years ago when played on the music-hall stage and is the sort of humorous piece that ought to be very suitable for broadcasting.

 

 

 

Sunday 12 July 1925 London 4.20-5

‘The Travelling Man’ (Lady Gregory)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 14 September 1925 London 2.15

'Fetching the Doctor' a comedy sketch (Mabel Constanduros)

A Traveller - Henry Oscar

A Moss-Grown Man - Fewlass Llewellyn

 

 

 

 

 

London Wednesday 7 October 1925  8.20-8.35

'The Executioner' a dramatic fragment in one act (F.W. Bradley)

(No director listed)

Isobel -  Winifred Chenery

Bess - Muriel Fregusson

Visitor - H.R. Marchant

Scene: Interior of a lonely inn near Winchester

Time: 14^th. Century at night

 

 

 

 

Thursday 13 October 1925 London 8.10-8.40

(1)  ‘The Little Stone House’ (George Calderon)

Astoryi – George Hayes

Varvara – Peggy Robb-Smith

Spiridon – Drelincourt Odlum

Foma – Leonard Walker

Praskovya – Lilian Mason

A Stranger – Howard Rose

A Corporal – John Reeve

Scene: The action takes place in the sitting-room of a small house in a provincial town of Russia.

(2)      * ‘Bright Gold’ (R.E. Jeffrey and Frank H. Shaw) 9.15-9.45

a play specially written for broadcasting

First Seaman – Drelincourt Oldum

Second Seaman – James Hughes

Tom Gayland (the owner of a steam yacht) – Reginald Denham

The Captain – Victor Lewisohn

Dr. Jackson – Henry Oscar

Steward – Lawrence Gowdy

Elaine Wilding – Phyllis Panting

Scene: A steam yacht of some hundred tons.

 

 

 

 

 

NUMBER OF ORIGINATIONS:  10

 

Total play nights  =  44

 

Total pieces  =  51

 

 

July to December =

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NUMBER OF ONE-ACT PLAYS ADAPTED FROM STAGE = 9