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

Act I. - The interior of Hobson’s Bootshop in Chapel Street, Salford.
Act II - The same
Act III - A room in a cellar in Oldfield Road
Act IV - Hobson’s living-room

Here is a lively domestic comedy if ‘take it or leave it’ in the costume of the ‘eighties.

Henry Horatio Hobson, a Salford tradesman, imagines that he can impose his choice on the world at large, including his family. But Maggie, his equally uncompromising, but much clearer-sighted, daughter, succeeds in convincing him, and everyone else, that ‘Hobson’s choice’ is Maggie Hobson’s choice.