'The Man From Toronto'
A Comedy in Three Acts
(Douglas Murray)
Tuesday 2 October 1928 Plymouth 7.45-8.30
Act I
From the Three-Act Comedy
Presented by the Plymouth Amateur Players
Relayed from the Globe Theatre, Royal Marine Barracks
'The Man From Toronto'
A Comedy in Three Acts
(Douglas Murray)
Wednesday 3 October 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-11
Fergus Wimbush - Cyril Raymond
Ruth - May Saker
Ada - Marjorie Sebley
Mrs. Calthorpe - Iris Hoey [large billing]
Mr. Priestley - J. Sebastian Smith
Robert Gilmour - Derek Williams
Martha - Joan Matheson
Mrs. Hubbard - Chloe Gibson
Winnie Hubbard - Sybil JaneScene: The parlour of Mrs. Calthorpe's seaside cottage at Teignmouth, Devon.
This amusing comedy had a long run when first produced at the Royalty Theatre and has since been successfully revived. A charming widow, Mrs. Calthorpe, wilful, irresponsible, and impecunious, is left a large sum of money on condition that she marries Fergus Wimbush, hailing from Toronto, whom she has never seen. She resolves to learn all about him first, and disguised as her own parlour-maid, 'Perkins', receives him in her Devonshire cottage. Complications follow thick and fast, but Mrs. Calthorpe is equal to them all. It is a constant favourite with amateurs, and tonight's performance should be of particular interest to those societies that are planning to produce it this winter.