RT 6 November 1925

p 310

Newcastle Station

Dramatically, the Station has an interesting record. Standing out from the many small plays the “5NO” Repertory Company has given so successfully are the performance of ‘Macbeth’, ‘The Wasps of Aristophanes’, ‘Trilby’ and more recently a delightful version of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’ with Grieg’s music.

 

 

Monday 5 January 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9

The “5NO” Repertory Company

‘Tilda’s New Hat’ one-act play (George Paston)

pr Gordon Lea

Mrs. Fishwick - Janie Stevens

Tilda - Sal Sturgeon

Daisy Meadows - Clive Zalve

Walter Emerson - Norman Firmin

Monday 12 January 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9.30

‘Patsy For Granted’ one act and two scenes (Theodora Wilson)

pr Gordon Lea

John Dearman - Kendrew Milson

Jean - Jennie Stevens

Mrs. Percival - Norah Balls

Paul - James Herdman

Jose - Mary Knybett

Patsy - Olive Zalva

Sir Stafford Dane - Gordon LeaFriday 16 January 1925 Newcastle 9-9.15

(1)  ‘Playing With Fire’ comedy one act (Percival Wilde)

pr Gordon Lea

5NO Repertory Company

(2) 9.15-9.30

‘A Game of Chess’ duologue (Alfred Sutro)

pr Gordon Lea

scene: secluded corner in the drawing-room of a liner outward bound from AmericaFriday 23 January 1925 Newcastle 9.10-9.30

(1) * ® ‘Light and Shade’ a short comedy (L. du Garde Peach)

pr R.E. Jeffrey

(presumably) Players from 2LO London

(2) 10.30-11

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

pr R.E. Jeffrey Thursday 5 February 1925 Newcastle 7.35-9

Wiliam Macready assisted by Edna Godfrey-Turner in his recital ‘Shakespeare. Scene and Story’

excerpts from ‘Hamlet’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘King Lear’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘Henry V’Monday 16 February 1925  Newcastle 9-9.30

“5NO” Repertory Company

The Screen Scene from ‘The School for Scandal’

preceded by the prologue written by David Garrick

pr Lee Dixon

Joseph Surface - Fred Patterson

Servant - Kendrew Milson

Lady Teazle - Olive Zalva

Sir Peter Teazle - Lee Dixon

Charles Surface - Kendrew Milson

Monday 23 February 1925 Newcastle 8-8.25

‘Lords of Creation’ one act comedy (Albert F. Drinkwater)

pr (no billing)

Sir Mostyn Sykes -Kendrew Milson

Godfrey Lund - Norman Firmin

Hilda Reeve - Stella East

scene: Hild Reeve’s house in Twickenham  time: summer, the present

 

Monday 2 March 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9

Repertory Company

‘The Young Idea’ comedy in one act (Herbert Swears)

Mrs. Lorrimer (widow) - Norah Balls

Nancy (daughter) - Mary Knyvett

scene: Nancy’s den at her mother’s house in the country

Monday 23 March 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9

Repertory Company

(1) * ‘Congo Night’ (Richard Hughes)

pr Gordon Lea

Harry - Gordon Lea

Bill - Eric Stuart

Studdart (African gold prospector) - Alan Thompson

A Girl - Mary Pettie

scene: Congo Beach at night

(2) ‘The Perfect Pair’ duologue (Vera Beringer)

pr Gordon Lea

Jas. Willingham - Gordon Lea

Dora (wife)  - Mary Pettie Wednesday 1 April 1925 Newcastle 7.35-7.50

The '5NO' Repertory Company

'The House that Jack Built' (Albert E. Drinkwater)

(no cast)

Wednesday 8 April 1925 Newcastle 9-9.30

The '5NO' Repertory Company

'A King's Hard Bargain' one act (Lt.-Col. W.P. Drury)

In the garden

Harry Quick (Leading Signaller, R.N.) - Gordon Lea

Joseph Pagett (Reservist, Royal Marines) - Kendrew Milson

Mrs. Pagett (his wife) - Norah Balls

In the watertight compartment

Pincher Martin (Ordinary Seaman, R.N.) - Fred Patterson

Privates, Royal Marine

William Wix - Norman Firman

Albert Shillitoe - James Herman

Scene 1 The Garden of the 'Coach and Horses'

Scene 2 The Watertight Compartment of H.M.S. Belligerent

Scene 3 The Garden again

Time: A summer evening. Present day. Wednesday 15 April 1925 Newcastle 8-10 mixed

'Five Birds in a Cage' one act (Gertrude E. Jennings)

pr Gordon Lea

Susan (the Duchess of Wiltshire) - Stella East

Leonard (Lord Porth) - Kendrew Milson

Nellie (a milliner's assistant) - Norah Balls

Bert (a workman) - Norman Firmin

Horace (the liftman) - Alan Thompson

Scene: the interior of a tube lift29 April 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10

“5NO” Repertory Company

(1)  ‘Afterthoughts’ (Albert E. Drinkwater)

characters:

Philip Deane-Nichol

Margaret (wife)

Mike Toddy

Hodges

(2)  ‘Lucky Peter’ (Robert Higgenbotham)

characters:

Sir Aubrey Scott

Peter Coulthhwaite

Pinchin

Monday 4 May 1925 Newcastle 9-9.30

‘Between the Soup and the Savoury’ (Gertrude E. Jennings)

Repertory Company

Monday 25 May 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11

‘The Philosopher of Butter-Buggins’ one act (B. Harold Chapin) ®

Monday 22 June 1925 Newcastle XXXXX

® ‘Trilby’

William Macready

Edna Godfrey-Turner

Wednesday 24 June 1925 Newcastle

®  ‘Christopher Columbus’ 

 

 

 

Monday 29 June 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10

“5NO” Repertory Company

‘Just Like a Woman’ a domestic trifle (Sewell Collins)

 

 

Monday 6 July 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11

‘When the Tide Comes In’ sketch (Florence Thornton Smith)

scene: sitting-room in Vernons’ home  time: time of Cromwell

 

 

Monday 13 July 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11

Station Repertory Company

(1) ® ‘A Sister to Assist ‘Er’ 

(1)     ® ‘Collaborators’

(the following information not listed: sketch   (Daisy McGeoch) first broadcast :Tuesday 18 December 1923  London 7.30 two characters)

 

 

Monday 24 August 1925 Newcastle 9.0-9.30

The "5NO" Repertory Company in

'Scenes from Shakespeare's Comedies'

 

Monday 24 August 1925 Newcastle 10.15-10.45

'Enoch Arden' (Tennyson)

Declaimed by Gordon Lea

 

 

Monday 7 September 1925 Newcastle 8-9

The "ENO" Repertory Company

Scenes from 'Peer Gynt' (Henrik Ibsen)

Aase - Sal Sturgeon

Peer Gynt - Eric Barber

Kari - Renie Bruce

Solveig - Mary Pattie

The King of the Trolls - Fred Patterson

A Green-Clad Woman - Sydney Wilson

A Button Moulder - Gordon Lea

 

Friday 2 October 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9

"5NO" Repertory Company

'An Old-Fashioned Girl' (Arthur Temple)

a broadcast play by Arthur Temple

Frank Selkey  -  Fred Patterson

John Mackert - Alan Thompson

Ambrose Pellam - Kendrew Milson

Anne Pellam  -  Sal Sturgeon

The action takes place on the high road and then in Pelham's farmhouse.

Monday 5 October 1925  9.30-10 Newcastle

"5N0" Repertory Company

'A Knock-Out' comedy (J. Vaughan Emmett)

(No director listed)

Humphrey Buckham - Norman Firmin

Douglas Morton - Kindrew Milson

Girl - Stella East

Railway Guard - Harold Wemyss

 

 

Monday 12 October 1925 Newcastle 10.15-10.45

The “5NO” Repertory Company

“A Game of Bluff” (Lady Neish)

Mr. Gilbert, a mechanic – Eric Barber

Mrs. Gilbert – Una Rodenhurst

Florrie Gilbert – Stella East

Bert Warren, Booking Clerk (Florrie’s over) – Norman Firmin

Scene: Mr. Gilbert’s Parlour

Presented by Kendrew Milson

 

Monday 19 October 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10

The “5NO” Repertory Company

‘That Brute Simmons’ (Arthur Morrison and Herbert C. Sargent)

Thomas Simmons – Norman Firmin

Bob Ford – Kendrew Milson

Mrs. Simmons – Sal Sturgeon

Scene: The kitchen in the Simmons’ house at Bow.

Presented by Sal Sturgeon

Friday 23 October 1925 Newcastle 9.15-10

‘Radio Radiance’ second edition

Directed by James Lester and R.E. Jeffrey

Monday 2 November 1925 Newcastle 9.15-9.40

Newcastle Station Repertory Company

Presented by Sal Sturgeon

‘The Burglar’ one act (Clarence Ponting)

Jim Quest – Alan Thompson

Lily Quest – Sal Sturgeon

Scene: The dining-room of a small country bungalow

 

Wednesday 18 November 1925 Newcastle  8.45

'Force, Wits and a Woman' (Julius Hare)

Sunday 29 November 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10.15

The Newcastle Station Repertory Company

‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ (W.B. Yeats)

Maurteen Bruin – Eric Barber

Bridget Bruin – Sal Sturgeon

Shawn Bruin – James Herdman

Father Hart – Alan Thompson

A Fairy Child – Betty Humble

Presented by Gordon Lea

 

Monday 7 December 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9

London Radio Repertory Players

‘The War in Spain’ = Cardiff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Times Monday 15 June 1925 p 8

Newcastle

first concert transmitted in a stable yard

microphone set up on a coal cart

performers surrounded by audience of draught horses

normal control-room  150-200 square feet

originally sound-proof box little larger than the P.O. telephone call box in one corner of the studio

old-fashioned carbon microphone hanging from the ceiling

superseded by Western Electric type of carbon microphone

then magnetophone used at all B.B.C. stations

one of the earliest experiments in OB from a picture theatre

Cardiff transmitting room originally a coal shed

moved - studio as large as 2LO London