THE SOWERBY BRIDGE PRIZE BRASS BAND
Selection of Verdi's Works
'A BUSINESS PROPOSAL'
A Comedy-Drama of Lancashire Life by ROSSET
GILL. Presented by D. E. ORMEROD
Cast (in order of speaking) :
EVEN in such tough-fibred spinsters as Sarah and Martha Duckers , living together in a small house bought out of long-practised economies, romance was not wholly extinguished though, like the atmosphere of the industrial village in which they had spent their lives, it had become vitiated by unwholesome conditions.
At the opening of the play, we find Martha waiting for her sister's return from the factory after the day's work. An air of clean vigour pervades their apartment, with its old dresser, family samplers, case clock and robust aspidistra. rpO adapt one's business methods to matrimonial affairs is not always successful, as Ben Riley found when he tried to decide which of two sisters he should marry. He could not make up his mind whether it should be Sarah or Martha Duckers and, having been highly successful in business, he decided to solve his matrimonial problems in the same way as he did his business difficulties, but his attempt met with disastrous results.
Air, with Variations, ' Eventide '