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A comedy of no manners by Bernard Shaw.
(by arrangement with Roy Limbert)
[Starring] Frances Day
with Dermot Walsh and Denholm Elliott

The scene takes place in a study, a jungle clearing in Panama, and a drawing-room in Belgrave Square
Time: The Present
Based on Esme Percy's recent Malvern Festival production, at the Princes Theatre
(Dermot Walsh appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Settings based on designs by:
Theodora Winsten
Presented for television by:
Kevin Sheldon
Junius:
Denholm Elliott
His father:
Donald Eccles
She:
Frances Day
The native:
Kenneth Mackintosh
The Chinese priest:
Arthur Hewlett
Sir Ferdinand Flopper:
John Longden
The widower:
Denis Cannan
Darkie:
Jasmine Dee
Mr. Secondborn:
Dermot Walsh
Mrs. Secondborn:
Sylvia Coleridge
Mrs. Thirdborn:
Peggy Burt
Fiffy:
Peter Bartlett
Old Bill Buoyant:
Maitland Moss
Source: Radio Times

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