Three Vignettes in music and verse, grave and gay, of life with the Colours from 1815 to 1915.
Seen through the eyes of a Chelsea Pensioner.
Episodes:
I. Waterloo
II. South Africa
III. Flanders-and England
The Cast will include: John Rorke, Donald Davies, Jack Parkin, Tom Jones, The Super Six, The Station Orchestra
In Episode III will be enacted the Comedy:
A Gold Stripe
by Matthew Boulton
Emma Sprooles is tidying up her home, a tenement flat in Tooley Street, S.E., because her husband, Ted, locally described as a 'nero', gets his discharge from hospital that day. Mrs. Hopkins, a neighbour who 'can't 'elp being plump', comes in bursting with curiosity to find out all she can, and Bill Gosling, a former comrade of Ted's, arrives unexpectedly, for he is home on leave.