Birmingham

 

Wednesday 20 January 1926 Manchester 7.35-8 9 (mixed)

A Shakespeare-Garrick Programme

The Station Dramatic Company

Excerpts Arranged and Presented by Victor Smythe

Three Excerpts from ‘David Garrick’ (T. W. Robertson)

Ada Ingot – Hylda Metcalf

Simon Ingot – E.H. Bridgstock

Thomas – Walter Plinge

David Garrick – Victor Smythe

Mrs. Smith – Mary Eastwood

Araminta Brown – Betty Elsmore

Mr. Smith – Tom Wilson

Mr. Jones – Charles Nesbitt

Squire Chivy – A.G. Mitcheson

 

 

 

Thurs 1 April 1926 Manchester 9-9.30

The Station Dramatic Company

‘April Fools Fooled’

Specially written by H. Topliss

George Higgins – A.G. Mitcheson

Leonard Wandsworth – Charles Nesbitt

Sam Egchick – E.H. Bridgstock

May Henderson – Hylda Metcalf

Scene; the office of Higgins & Co.

Time: 10.30 am April 1^st 1926

A short farce which shows how the biter often gets bitten on this day.

 

 

Tuesday 20 April 1926 Manchester 8.5-9 mixed

The Welsh players present

‘The Poacher’ (J.O.Francis)

 

 

Sat 1 May 1926 Manchester 10-10.30

‘Oscillation’ a farce (Edward P. Genn)

 

Saturday 15 May 1926 Manchester 8-9.30 mixed

The Station Dramatic Company

‘The Madness of Mr. Mingleby’ (Yate Tregarron)

Presented by Victor Smythe

 

 

Thursday 12 August 1926 Manchester 8.-9.30 (mixed)

Lands of the Midnight Sun

‘Bergliot’ (Bjornstjerne Bjornson)

A Dramatic Recitation with Orchestral Accompaniment

Set to Music by Edward Grieg

 

 

Friday 13 August 1926 Manchester 10-10.30

The Station Dramatic Company

In

‘A Model of Tact’ (A.F. Hyslop)

A Farce in One Act

Jack – Charles Nesbitt

Joan – Beryl Nixon

George – E.H. Bridgstock

Directed by Charles Nesbitt

The sitting-room of one of those bijou flats where the front door is three strides away from the sitting-room fireplace.

Friday 27 August 1926 Manchester 9-9.30

‘Grey Ash’ (Leonora Thornber)

Renee – Phyllis Panting

Anna – Peggie Robb-Smith

Sir John Ferguson – Percy Rhodes

Sigurd Nikita – Henry Oscar

The scene is the comfortably furnished drawing-room of a Downland cottage, about four o’clock on a mid-winter afternoon. From an overheard room comes the sound of a violin playing.

 

Saturday 28 August 1926 Manchester  9-9.30

‘The Rebels’ (Frank Clare)

A Fantasy in One Act

Performed by the Station Dramatic Company

Presented by Victor Smythe

The Author – D.E. Ormerod

Jane – Lucia Rogers

Don Luponi – Charles Nesbitt

Elsie – Hylda Metcalf

Harry – M.H. Benoliel

The Vicar – E.H. Bridgstock

Scene:an Author’s den

Mind picture:A comfortably furnished room, tastefully decorated. In the centre of the roomm a large roll-top desk which is covered with masses of typewritten sheets of paper. The floor is also strewn with paper, giving the room an untidy appearance. The Author is seated at a small table and is using a typewriter.

 

 

Tuesday 7 September 1926 Manchester  10-10.30

Cahal Fogerty reads an Irish play he has written ‘The Half-Door’

 

 

Wednesday 8 September 1926 Manchester 10.30-11

‘Voices’ (Bernard Newman)

A Farce

Performed by the Station dramatic company

George Smithers (A Free Lance Journalist) – W.E. Dickman

Roland Thorpe (His Friend) – H.M. Benoliel

Madge Taunton – Hylda Metcalf

Flora Newton – Stella Cassell

The entire action takes place in George Smithers’s apartment in Maida Vale.

 

Friday 10 September 1926 Manchester 8.30-8.47

The London Radio Repertory Players

Present

‘The Missing Link’ (James Dyrenforth and H.M.H. Graham)

Eric Maxwell-Smith – Michael Hogan

Cynthia – Vivien Lambelet

Nathalie – Phyllis Panting

Mind Picture: am amusing incident which might have been another version of the Eternal Triangle except for circumstances which are explained in the course of the play. The scene is the dressing-room of Eric Maxwell-Smith, who is preparing to accompany his wife to a function. After the manner of a man, Eric is frantically seeking one of his cuff-links.

 

 

 

Tuesday 14  September 1926 Manchester 10-10.30

‘The Sweep’ (A.W. Bird)

A Farce

Performed by the Station Dramatic Company

Presented by Victor Smythe

Edward Broadbent – W.E. Dickman

Sylvia – Hylda Metcalf

Harrison – H.M. Beneliel