Maurice Baring

'The Rehearsal'

a diminutive drama

(Maurice Baring)

Saturday 11 February 1928 Glasgow 9.35-10.30

[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'The Little Kingdom'

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George Hunter
John Chalmers
Moultrie Kelsall
Frederick Biron
Daniel Jacob

(list in 'The Times')

Four Diminutive Dramas

(Maurice Baring)

Thursday 17 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15

I. 10.15 'The Drawback'

He - Bruce Belfrage
She - Denise Torrens

Scene: A seat in Kensington Gardens. The sting is not only in the tale but in the title.

II. 10.30 'After Euripides' 'Electra''

Helidore - Ruth Anderson
Naucydes - Robert Speaight
Lycoris - Gypsy Ellis
Cinyras - Alfred Gray
Demetrius - James Whale
Nieylla - Anne Furnivall
Socrates - Alec Johnstone
Hegeso - Barbara Copper
Aleander - J.H. Moore
Timareta - Loti Ford
Antagoras - Eric Derwent
Xenocles - Wyn Weaver

Heliodore, the wife of Cinyras, is giving a party in her Athens house after the first production of 'Electra' a new play by Euripides.

III. 10.45 'The Greek Vase'

Giovanni - Guy Pelham Boulton
The Dealer - Hector Abbas

In the cold, bare garret of a squalid house in Rome lies a young sculptor whom the gods must love, because he is dying.

IV. 11.00 'Catherine Parr' or 'Alexander's Horse'

King Henry VIII - Stanley Walters
Catherine Parr - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
A Page - Anne Furnivall

Henry VIII and his sixth wife have just sat down to breakfast at the palace.

'The Rehearsal'

a diminutive drama

(Maurice Baring)

Monday 29 October 1928 Cardiff 10.18-10.35

The Stage Manager - Tom Jones
The Producer - Richard Barron
First Witch - Jack James
Lady Macbeth - Sidney Evans
The Doctor - G. Lynch-Clarke
Mr. Shakespeare - Daniel Roberts
Mr. Burbage - Donald Davies
Macduff - Jack Parkin

The Globe Theatre, 1595.

'The Drawback'

a diminutive drama in one scene

(Maurice Baring)

Thursday 8 November 1928 Cardiff 10.10-10.22

He - Hedley Goodall
She - Vera Clarke