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'Brother Juniper'
From the 'Little Plays of St. Francis'
Monday 2 January 1928 London and Daventry 10.35-11
The Play will be given by the London University College Dramatic Society
The Play produced by A. S. Gilbert
[characters and actors listed]
'A Fool and His Money'
A Wayside Comedy
Wednesday 4 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10
Tim - John Moss
Tony - Wortley Allen
The Fool - Stuart Vinden
'Heart's Desire'
A Comic Opera en casserole
Thursday 5 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 9-10
Daffodil, the Leading Lady - Olive Groves
Jack, the Leading Man - Harold Kimberley
Polly Popkiss, the Innkeeper's Daughter - Mabel Constanduros
William, a Hot Cross Bun Designer - Harold Clemence
Father - Wortley AllenThe Birmingham Studio Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Lewis
* 'Pursuit'
Friday 6 January 1928 5XX Daventry 8.45-10
Saturday 7 January 1928 2LO London 7.45-9.15no cast given in Radio Times
pr (no billing) Cecil Lewis (Southern Edition)
assisted by Michael Hogan (Southern Edition)Seth Kent - Eric Stanley
Jenny Bristol - Lilian Harrison
Sam Bristol - Clive Currie
Esme Frith - Sunday Wilshin
Fred Forsyth - Henry Oscar
Bob Seton - Herbert Lugg
Gwen Thurston - Clare Harris
Lucie - Olgar Benois
Inspector Long - Jon Charlton
Inspector Laughton - George Ide
Airways Manager - C. Leveson Lane
Officer at Le Bouget - Abraham Sofaer
First Police Officer - Cyril Smith
Second Police Officer - Thomas Trevor
Third Police Officer - Donald Edwards
Police Sergeant - Robert Speaight
Police Sergeant - S. Creagh Henry
'The Storm'
A Poetic Play
Wednesday 11 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10
From Birmingham
Alice - Gladys Ward
Joan (her younger sister) - Grace Walton
Sarah - Gladys Joiner
An Old Man - Wortley Allen
A Young Stranger - Stuart Vinden
'The Playboy of the Western World'
A Comedy in Three Acts
(Synge)
Thursday 19 January 1928 2LO London and Daventry 7.45-9.0
[no actors listed]
*? 'The Safe'
A Comedy
Friday 20 January 1928 5GB Daventry experimental 8.25-8.50
Jerry Hampton - William Hughes
Hugh Blountfield - Molly Hall
Hilda - John Moss
'Sweethearts'
Monday 23 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-9
From Birmingham
Mr. Harry Spreadbarrow - Stuart Vinden
Wilcox (a Gardener) - Wortley Allen
Miss Jenny Northcott - Gladys Ward
Ruth (a Maidservant) - Grace Walton
* 'The Test'
a short play specially written for broadcasting
Tuesday 24 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'Witch-Wife'A high priest of Aztec - Victor Lewisohn
Capt in the army of cortez - Henry Oscar
Servant of the temple - Harman Grisewood
'Witch-Wife'
(Michael Hogan and Mabel Constanduros)
Tuesday 24 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'The Test'Produced by Michael Hogan
Grannie Mallorn - Marie Ault
Margaret Mallorn - Joan Brierley
A Stranger - Harold Young
Seth Herdstone - Charles Mortimer
'Dainty Diana'
an episode in the life of Sir Roger de Coverley
Wednesday 1 February 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Produced by Stuart Vinden
music Guy JonesSir Roger de Coverley - Aubrey Millward
Beau Lightfoot - Harold Kimberley
Will Honeycomb - Wortley Allen
Sir David Rigby - Kingsley Lark
Sir Bilberry Bounce - Robert Chignell
Clincher - Rex Bruchell
Pottle - Harry Saxton
Gadfly - John Armstrong
Diana Denbigh - Olive Groves
Daphne Firebrace - Phyllis Lones
Lydia Manners - Vivienne Chatterton
Jenny Oldacres - Esther Coleman
Martha - Mabelle Hemming
'Colvin's Lane'
Thursday 2 February 1928 Daventry 8-8.45
Two Short Plays from Birmingham
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'Honours Easy'Produced by Stuart Vinden
Mary - Gladys Joiner
Minnie - Gladys Ward
Jim - Wortley Allen
Mike - Edgar Lane
Lucy - Gladys Joiner
'Honours Easy'
a trifle of patches and powder
Thursday 2 February 1928 Daventry 8-8.45
[Two Plays]
Broadcast with 'Colvin's Lane'(no script)
(also April 1929)Lucy Lorebone - Grace Walton
Martha - Helen M. Enoch
A Chance Acquaintance - William Hughes
'What Men Live By'
Monday 6 February 1928 Daventry 8-8.45 from Birmingham
adapted from the Tolstoy story
tr. Aylmer Maude
prSimon (a Bootmaker) - Stuart Vinden
Matryona - Mildred Forster
Aniuska - Elizabeth Forster
Michael - Courtney Bromet
A Russian Nobleman - William Hughes
His Servant - Wortley Allen
A Woman - Phyllis Newsom
'The Folly of George'
Wednesday 15 February 1928 Daventry 8.30-9
From Birmingham
George Clifford - Stuart Vinden
Jack Bentley - John Moss
Kitty Claire - Molly Hall
'Master Wayfarer'
A happening of long ago
Tuesday 28 February 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-9
From Birmingham
With songs by Arthur Scott Craven and music by Howard Carr
Presented by Stuart Vinden
The Maid - Ida Gilbert
The Man - Henry Butlin
The Villain - Edwin Turner
The Wayfarer - Cuthbert Ford
'Campbell of Kilmhor'
Friday 2 March 1928 London and Daventry 10-11
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'A Valuable Rival'Presented by the Scottish National Players
with Tyrone Guthrie ('Times' billing)
Mary Steward - Elliot Mason
Morag Cameron - Nan Scott
Dugald Stewart - Andrew Stewart
Captain Sandeman - Tyrone Guthrie
Archibald Campbell - R.B. Wharrie
James Mackenzie - Atholl Blair
'A Valuable Rival'
A Lowland Comedy
Friday 2 March 1928 London and Daventry 10-11
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'Campbell of Kilmhor'Presented by the Scottish National Players
Alexander Jamieson - R.B. Wharrie
Maggie - Elliot Mason
William Bain - Atholl Blair
'Their Point of View'
one act
Monday 5 March 1928 Daventry 8-8.30
Albert Bartlet - William Hughes
Rev. Philip Monckton - Stuart Vinden
Mrs. Bartlet - Gladys Joiner
'The Tinker's Wedding'
Tuesday 6 March 1928 Daventry 10.15-11/15
abridged and adapted
pr Howard Rose
Sarah Casey - Clare Harris
Michael Byrne - Charles Maunsell
Mary Byrne - Joyce Tremayne
'Kitty'
Friday 9 March 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.15-9.30
Lil - Ethel Malpas
Sid - Stuart Vinden
'Sardines for Tea'
A Comedy
Friday 16 March 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-9
Two Short Plays
Broadcast with 'Taking the Liberty'From Birmingham
Produced by Stuart Vinden
Miss Spinner - Phyllis Tibbetts
Mrs. Catchem - Gladys Joiner
Mr. Bond - Wortley Allen
Box 123 X - Stuart Vinden
'Taking the Liberty'
Friday 16 March 1928 Daventry 5GB 8.25-9
Two Short Plays
Broacast with 'Sardines for Tea'Bill - Stuart Vinden
Ethel - Molly Hall
Hardrade - John Moss
Burton (a Butler) - Wortley Allen
'The Master Builder'
Ibsen centenary
(Ibsen)
Monday 19 March 1928 Daventry 7.30-9
Tuesday 20 March 1928 London and Daventry 9.40-11pr Howard Rose
Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer
Knut Brovik - Frederick De Lara
Kaid Fosli - Anne Furnivall
Ragnar Brovik - Harold Anstruther
Halvard Solness - Harcourt Williams
Aline Solness - Arna Hene
Dr. Herdal - J.H. Moore
Miss Hilda Wangel - Gwendolene Evans
*'The Night Fighters'
A new play for radio
Monday 26 March 1928 London and Daventry 8.15-9
pr Cecil Lewis
Rudd - Eric Cowley
Ivan Firth [listed in 'Times']
Sandy - Robert Speaight [ not listed in 'Times']
Padre - George Merritt
Price - Walter Hudd
Mother - Clare Harris
Betty - Gwendolen Evans
Bill - Michael Hogan
Bristow - Paul England
Batman - Frank Denton
Forrester - Herbert Lugg
Juggy - Caleb Porter
'In Chinese Waters'
Tuesday 27 March 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.30-11.15
From Birmingham
Produced by Stuart Vinden
'Big Bill' Jix, a Globe Trotter - John Moss
Phillip MacGregor, Second Officer - Wortley Allen
George Adams, Purser - Wortley Allen
Stanley Jones, Wireless Operator - William Hughes
Herbert Barrows, Owners' Agent - Henry Butlin
Ah Foo, a Pirate - Stuart Vinden
'The Man of Destiny'
A Trifle
Wednesday 28 March 1928 London and Daventry 9.45-11
Esme Percy as Napoleon
Margaret Macdona as The Lady
The Lieutenant - George C. Bancroft
Giuseppe Grandi - George De Lara
* 'Speed'
A Tragi-Comic Fantasy of Gods and Mortals
(Charles Croker pseudonym)
Monday 2 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Written specially for radio transmission
The gods:
Cronus - Leslie Perrins
Rhea - Netta Westcott
Zeus - George Ide
Crisu - Ronald HammondThe mortals:
Ethel - Lilian Harrison
Mother - Edith Hunter
Jack - Peter Cunningham
Father - Caleb Porter
Howland - Cyril Nash
O'Brien - Eric Lugg
Shaw - Ernest Digges
Captain - Elliott Seabrooke
O'Brien, Jnr. - John Wyse
McShane - J. Hubert Leslie
Mate - Edward Chapman
First Lorryman - Philip Wade
Second Lorryman - Matthew Boulton
'Sister Gold'
One of the Little Plays of St. Francis
Saturday 7 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-8.25 From Birmingham
Two Short Plays
Broadcast with 'The Wayfarer'Francis - Stuart Vinden
Brother Juniper - Wortley Allen
The Goat Boy - Grace Walton
First Robber - John Moss
Second Robber - William Hughes
Third Robber - Henry O'Donnell
The Miser - John Armstrong
'The Wayfarer'
Saturday 7 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 8.25-9 From Birmingham
Two Short Plays
Broadcast with 'Sister Gold'John Mann - John Moss
Nick Winter - Stuart Vinden
Will Spring - John Armstrong
Hal Summers - William Hughes
Dan Fall - Wortley Allen
Mistress Neighbour - Phyllis Richardson
'Dick Whittington'
Monday 9 April 1928 London and Daventry 8-9
The Strutham Amateurs rehearse 'Dick Whittington'
Mabel Constanduros
Michael Hogan
Eliot Wakeham
Vivienne Chatterton
Harold Scott
Olive Groves
J. Hubert Leslie
'Out of the Shadow'
A Psychic Mystery Play
Monday 9 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10
From Birmingham
Produced by Stuart Vinden
Mrs. Margery Sands - Gladys Ward
Major Victor Rowe - William Hughes
Miss Amelia Tutt - Maud Gill
Mr. Kay - Stuart Vinden
Jane - Grace Walton
'Lord Jim'
A Romantic Radio Story-Play
(Joseph Conrad and Cecil Lewis)
Tuesday 10 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.45-10
Wednesday 11 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.20-11.35Taken from the novel by Joseph Conrad, by Cecil Lewis
Captain Marlow - Harcourt Williams
Jim - John Gielgud
Skipper of the 'Patna' - Hector Abbas
George - Herbert Lugg
Brown - H. Ste. Barbe West
Eggstrom - Eric Cowley
Stanton - George Ide
O'Brien - Ronald Hammond
Stein - Gilbert Heron
Jewel - Lilian Harrison
Cornelius - Philip Wade
Doramin - Leslie Perrins
Dain Waris - Cyril Nash
Tamb Itam - Eric Lugg
A Yankee - George Ide
Kassim - Walter Hudd
Muda - A. Carlow Grand
Haji Saman - Eric Cowley
Woman - Helen Leeman
'Lady Windermere's Fan'
Tuesday 17 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Produced by Howard Rose
Lord Windermere - Harcourt Williams
Lord Darlington - Felix Aylmer
Lord Augustus - Eric Cowley
Cecil Graham - Philip Wade
Lady Windermere - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Duchess of Berwick - Cicely Turner
Mrs. Erlynne - Irene Rooke
Lady Jedburgh - Edith Hunter
Lady Plymdale - Marjorie Clark-Jervoise
'The Crossing'
A Play for Broadcasting
(Holt Marvell and Cyril Lister)
Thursday 19 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-10.45
[Two Plays]
Broadcast with 'Apples and Eve'A Porter - Matthew Boulton
Gerald - Patrick Waddington
Jane - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
An Old Man - Raymond Trafford
'Apples and Eve'
A Dialect Play
(John Mackie and Conrad Carter)
Thursday 19 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.45-11.15
[Two Plays]
Broadcast with 'The Crossing'The Third Act
Presented by the Dramatic Section of The Society of Somerset Folk
[no actors listed]
'King Henry V'
Monday 23 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.20-11.15
St. George's Day
Produced by Howard Rose
Ivan Samson [large billing]
Herbert Lugg
Gilbert Heron
Philip Wade
Eric Lugg
Murri Moncrieff
Patrick Waddington
Leslie Perrins [large billing]
Sydney Russell
B.A. Pittar
Ernest Haines
J. Smith Wright
S. Creagh Henry
Ernest Digges
Winifred Evans [large billing]
Alice De Grey
Gipsy Ellis
Colleen Clifford
Margaret Halstan
'The better the day, the better the deed'
A Shakespeare Day Duologue
(Edith Evans and Robert Loraine)
Monday 23 April 1928 London and Daventry 6.45-7
Concerning Sadlers Wells
At 6.45 a 'Shakespeare Day Duologue' will be broadcast by our leading young comedy actress and our most distingushed romantic actor - Miss Edith Evans and Mr. Robert Loraine.
'The Dark Curtain'
A Play in One Act with a Prologue and an Epilogue
Tuesday 24 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11 From Birmingham
Characters in Prologue and Epilogue:
Mrs. Varney - F.A. Chamberlain
Sybil Leigh - Molly Hall
Geoffrey Denham - Stuart VindenCharacters in Play:
Robert Dudley - Stuart Vinden
Amy Robsart - Molly Hall
Varney - Wortley Allen
'Bath Salts'
Vaudeville
Wednesday 25 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.45-8.45 (mixed)
Harold - Fernley Bisshopp
Evelyn - Dorothy Darke
Bartney - Philip Brandon
'Feed the Brute'
Wednesday 2 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.23-9.48
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Samuel Pottle - Stuart Vinden
Mrs. Pottle - Gladys Joiner
Mrs. Wilks - Phyllis Tibbetts
'Duffy'
A Play in Three Acts
Friday 4 May 1928 London and Daventry 8-8.50
Arranged for broadcasting
S.B. from Plymouth
Duffy - Kathleen Frazier
Joan - Mrs. Stanley James
Terrytop - A.K. Hamilton Jenkin
Squire Lovell - R. Morton Nance
'Our Peg'
A Musical Play in Three Acts
Tuesday 8 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 8.35-10
Lyics by Harry Graham
Music by Harold Fraser SimsonBetty Brown - Colleen Clifford
Barney O'Flynn - Denis O'Neill
Peter Vane - Ivan Firth
Colley Cibber - Gilbert Heron
Sir Charles Pomander - Leslie Perrins
Peg Woffington - Megan Foster
Triplet - Hay Petrie
Dorothy Haywood - Peggie Robb-Smith
Kitty Clive - Nadine March
Tony - Herbert Lugg
'A Little Fowl Play'
Wednesday 9 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-8.30 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Gilbert Warren - Stuart Vinden
Sybil Warren - Jane Ellis
Mr. Tolbooth - Wortley Allen
Mary - Grace Walton
The Boy - William Hughes
'Sex of One' or 'Deceivers Ever'
A sketch in One Act
Thursday 10 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
Charles - Fernley Bisshopp
Theo - Dorothy Stephen
'Followers'
a Cranford Sketch
Thursday 10 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
A Scene which might have been enacted in 'Cranford'
Susan Crowther - Nora Loos
Helen Masters - Anne Furnivall
Lucinda Baines - Irene Rooke
Colonel Redfern - Frank Denton
Four Diminutive Dramas
Thursday 17 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
I. 10.15 'The Drawback'
He - Bruce Belfrage
She - Denise TorrensScene: 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 WeaverHeliodore, 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 AbbasIn 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 FurnivallHenry VIII and his sixth wife have just sat down to breakfast at the palace.
'The Mists of Morning'
A Sketch in One Act
Monday 21 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
With incidental music specially composed by Irvin Cooper
Mrs. Pembert - Ida Plinge
Julie - Joyce Bland
David Gardiner - Walter Plinge
Mr. Pemberton - Gilbert Heron
Barry Lawson - Eliot Wakeham
'Markheim'
A Story
Thursday 24 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10 From Birmingham
The Reader - Stuart Vinden
Markheim - William Hughes
Dealer - Wortley Allen
Visitor - Henry O'Donnell
Scenes from 'King John'
Friday 25 May 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays for Schools
'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
Adapted for Broadcasting in Three Episodes
Friday 25 May 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
S.B. from Glasgow
Duncan - Seath Innes
Malcom - Andrew Stewart
Macbeth - R.B. Wharrie
Banquo - Charles R.M. Brookes
Lady Macbeth - Nan R. Scott
Macduff - Robert DonatOther parts taken by The Glasgow Station Players, with incidental music by The Station Orchestra
Scenes and Episodes to be linked together by
The Narrator - Enid Hewitt
'The Survivor'
A Mystery in Three Acts
(Michael Hogan and Mabel Constanduros)
Tuesday 29 May 1928 London and Daventry 9.40-11
Homewood, the butler - Wyn Weaver
Dr. Peter Maldon, the owner of Warne Court - Laurence Anderson
Mr. Burton, his lawyer - Arthur Ewart
Rose Bootle, the housemaid - Elsie Wood
Mr. Evans, whose daughter is the wife of Dr. Maldon's son, Sidney - John Smythe
William Wallace Anderson - A.H. Clay
Mr. Iles, an attorney - Cecil Maybank
A Police Inspector - Sidney Browne
'Nurse Henrietta'
Thursday 31 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
Nurse Henrietta - Lilian Harrison
'Brains'
Friday 1 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-8.30 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
MacGregor - Wortley Allen
Grimp - William Hughes
Captain Prince - Stuart Vinden
'Mrs. Buggins Sees It Through'
Book by Mabel Constanduros
Saturday 2 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.35
Music composed by Stanford Robinson
Mrs. Buggins - Mabel Constanduros
Mrs. Buggins' 'elping 'ands:
Olive Groves
Denise Torrens
Harold Clemence
Michael Hogan
Ernest Digges
Harold Kimberley
'A Love Passage'
(W.W. Jacobs and Philip Hubbard)
Wednesday 6 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Jack Hall - Stuart Vinden
Sam Bross - William Hughes
Captain Alsen - Wortley Allen
Hetty Alsen - Molly Hall
'The Confession'
A Sketch
Saturday 9 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
Vaudeville
Lord Deerwater - Frank Denton
Lady Deerwater - Georgie Esmond
Hon. Francis Deerwater - Michael Hogan
Barker - Harold Clemence
Det.Insp.Muckitt - Norman Griffiths
'Hobson's Choice'
A Lancashire Comedy in Four Acts
Monday 11 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Alice Hobson - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Maggie Hobson - Edyth Goodall
Vickey Hobson - Grace Edwards
Albert Prosser - Roger Maxwell
Henry Horatio Hobson - Roger Maxwell
Mrs. Hepworth - Dora Gregory
Jim Heeler - Lawrence Baskcomb
William Mossop - Edward Chapman
Ada Figgins - Greta Wood
Timother Wadlow (Tubby) - A. Carlaw Grand
Fred Beenstock - Herbert Lugg
Dr. MacFarlane - J. Hubert Leslie
'Othello'
(Verdi)
Thursday 14 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 8.55-9.35
Act II
Relay from Covent Garden
'Rosalie'
Comédie en un Acte
Thursday 14 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.35-10
Présenté par Mlle. Alice Gauchet
Produced by Madame Alice Gauchet
M. Bol - John Reave
Rosalie - Marjorie Clarke-Jervoise
Mme. Bol - Barbara Couper
'Brother Sun'
Friday 15 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays to Schools
Broadcast with: 'The Locked Chest'
'The Locked Chest'
Friday 15 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays to Schools
Broadcast with: 'Brother Sun'
'Up The River'
An Aqueous Entertainment by 'L. du G.'
Monday 18 June 1928 London and Daventry 10-11Bruce Belfrage
Philip Wade
Frank Denton
Patrick Waddington
Joyce Bland
Phyllis Panting
'Early Birds'
Sketch
Wednesday 20 June 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
Auntie - Mabel Constanduros
Maud - Lilian Harrison
Sue - Florence Bayfield
Nell - Mary Allen
Milly - Melanie Castel
Programme Girl - Miriam Ferris
'Paolo and Francesca'
Wednesday 20 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Incidental Music by Percy Pitt, played by the Wireless Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Percy Pitt
Giovanni Malatesta, 'The Hunchback' (Tyrant of Rimini) - Harcourt Williams
Paolo, 'The Handsome' (brother of Giovanni) - Robert Donat
Valentino - Robert Speaight
Corrado - Bruce Belfrage
Luigi - Patrick Waddington
Carlo (Servant to Giovanni) - Herbert Lugg
Francesca da Rimini - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Lucrezia Degl' Onesti - Dorothy Green
Nita (Maid to Francesca) - Ivy Des Voeux
Angela (a blind and Aged Servant) - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Guests, Courtiers, Soldiers, Servants, etc.
'She Was No Lady'
Thursday 21 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 9-9.30 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Sir Alfred Pickles - Wortley Allen
Henry Learmouth - William Hughes
Lady Pickles - Mabel France
Mrs. Graveney - F.A. Chamberlain
'Eleven Fifty-Eight'
Monday 25 June 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.35-10 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
The Woman - Gladys Joiner
The Swell - William Hughes
The Lady - Margaret Kennedy
The Tramp - Vincent Curran
The Bookie - Wortley Allen
The Blind Man - Stuart Vinden
'Widow Engaging'
A comedy in one Act
Wednesday 27 June 1928 London and Daventry 8-8.30
Bessie Chilcote, a Widow - Gertrude Elliott
Mildred Todd, an Elderly Spinster - Vivienne Whitaker
Edward Manley, a Bachelor - Ivan Firth
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Friday 29 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Play to Schools
.. the cast will include such well-known artists as Miss Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Miss Lilian Harrison, and Mr. Douglas Burbridge.
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