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'The Boy'

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A musical comedy in two acts
(Founded on Sir Arthur Pinero 's ' The
.....Magistrate ')
By Fred Thompson
Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot
Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank
Adaptation and additional Lyrics by Archie Campbell
Characters :
Guests at the Meebles' and at the Cosmos Club
THE BBC MIDLAND REVUE CHORUS and THE REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by REGINALD BURSTON
Act I
Mr. Meebles' House at West Hampstead
Act 2
Scene i. The Cosmos Hotel, Verry
Street, W.C.
Scene 2. The Magistrate's Room,
Bromley Street
Scene 3. The Garden of Meebles'
House
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
This famous musical comedy, founded on Pinero's The Magistrate, was produced at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on September 14, 1917, and ran for 801 performances. It had an astonishingly fine cast-W. H. Berry (The Magistrate), Donald Calthrop (The Boy), Peter Gawthorne , Andre Randall , Nellie Taylor , Billie Carlton , and Heather Thatcher.
The first radio version is to be given tonight on National, and tomorrow on Midland (where it is being produced) and on Regional. It is something of an innovation in being a Midland radio production of a West End success. Reginald Burston , who conducts, should be in his element, for he was musical director for several Cochran-Coward shows in London before joining the BBC in Birmingham ; and the entire cast, with the exception of the Magistrate and his daughter, Millicent, are Midland players.
Dick Francis , who is to play the Magistrate, has broadcast constantly in National programmes for the last two years, having starred in such shows as La Vie Parisienne, Cottage Loaf, Sixty Smiles an Hour, ' Comic Opera ', the Scarlet Pimpernel burlesque, the Cinderella pantomime. Norah Howard , who is to play his daughter, is as well known in the theatre as on the air. Her recent radio shows have been Lots of Love, the February and December revues, Gala Variety, and Bitter Szceet.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Pinero
Unknown:
Fred Thompson
Music By:
Lionel Monckton
Unknown:
Adrian Ross
Unknown:
Percy Greenbank
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Conducted By:
Reginald Burston
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
H. Berry
Unknown:
Donald Calthrop
Unknown:
Peter Gawthorne
Unknown:
Andre Randall
Unknown:
Nellie Taylor
Unknown:
Billie Carlton
Unknown:
Heather Thatcher.
Unknown:
Reginald Burston
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Norah Howard
Unknown:
Bitter Szceet.
Horatio Meebles, Magistrate of Bromley Street Police Court:
Dick Francis
Millicent Meebles (late Cavanagh):
Norah Howard
Hughie Cavanagh, her son:
John Bentley
Diana Fairlie, her sister:
Marjorie Westbury
Colonel Bagotj from Bengal, retired:
John Lang
Albany Pope, of Lloyd's:
Hugh Morton
Joy Chatterton, a flapper:
Peggy Bryan
Katie Muirhead, Hughie's music mistress:
Tane Minton
Mr. Burridge, Magistrateof Bromley Street Police Court:
Godfrey Baseley
Sergeant Dix:
Godfrey Baseley
Cash, a butler:
Godfrey Baseley
Mr Honeyball, Chief Clerk at Bromley Street:
James Prodger
Juniori Fratti, proprietor of the 'Cosmos':
Olive Selborne
Inspector Eason:
Alfred Butler
Lyall Hewson-Galway:
Warwick Vaughan
Constable Styles:
Warwick Vaughan
Turner, a maid:
Barbara Helliwell
An Elderly Lady:
Barbara Helliwell
Doris:
Joan Carter
Elsie:
Joan Carter
Tich:
Robin Hume

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