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A Pair of Spectacles

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A Victorian farce by Sydney Grundy.
Adapted from 'Les Petits Oiseaux', by Labiche and Delacour.
[Starring] Denys Blakelock
Scene: Breakfast room of Benjamin Goldfinch's house late in the 1880s
(Second performance on Thursday)
(Avice Landone is appearing in 'Shooting Star'; Peter Murray appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

Contributors

Authors (Les Pettis Oiseaux):
Labiche and Delacour
Adapted by:
Sydney Grundy
Producer:
Stephen Harrison
Setting:
Barry Learoyd
Benjamin Goldfinch:
Denys Blakelock
Uncle Gregory, his brother:
Lyn Evans
Mrs. Goldfinch, his wife:
Avice Landone
Percy, his son:
David Peel
Dick, his nephew:
Peter Murray
Mr. Lorimer, his friend:
Willoughby Gray
Joyce, his butler:
Alban Blakelock
Bartholomew, his shoemaker:
Morris Sweden
Lucy Lorimer, Lorimer's daughter:
Honor Shepherd
Source: Radio Times

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