Arthur Blanch


A Flapper’s Programme

Poor Old Gentleman

(Arthur Blanch)

Tuesday 31 January 1928 Cardiff 7.45-9 (mixed)

Adapted as a play in One Scene
From the Short Story by A.M. Burrage

Petronella - Dorothy Allcock
George - Ivor Maddox

Scene: An Old Windmill near to a Golf Course.

Petronella and George are respectively nineteen and thirty-six - and thirty-six, as George says, is the devil of an age when you are in love with nineteen. Petronella tries to make him jealous by asking his advice about a proposal she has had, and when she asks him to propose to her himself, he calls her a scalp-hunter: the situation is very difficult for Petronella, who have loved George ever since she can remember.