in 'The Lady with a Lamp' by Reginald Berkeley
Adapted and Produced by LANCE SIEVEKING
Cast (By permission of Jack de Leon)
and Lady Christabel Deane, Miss Pelt, Nurse Bates, a Maid, a Sister, another Nurse, and other voices : MARY BYRON, VIVIENNE CHATTERTON, JENNY NICHOLSON
The play opens in 1848 and ends in 1910 Scenes
Scene 1. Embley Park, Hampshire,i848 Scene 2. Harley Street, 1854
Scene 3. Scutari. A room in an old Turkish barracks, 1854 (the first year of the Crimean War)
Scene 4. Old Burlington Street,
London, 1861
Scene 5. South Street, London, 1886 Scene 6. South Street, London, 1907 Scene 7. South Street, London, 1910
Reginald Berkeley 's play on the life of Florence Nightingale was first produced at the Arts Theatre on January 6, 1929, and went to the Garrick three weeks later. ' The Lady with a Lamp ' is to be played tonight by Diana Wyn yard, whom almost everyone will have seen in the film of Cavalcade.
She made her first appearance on the stage at the Globe Theatre in 1925, then toured the provinces in a repertory of over twenty parts. She did sterling work with the Liverpool Repertory Company, and has appeared in London in a number of West End plays, not least among them being Wild Decembers at the Apollo in 1933, in which she appeared as Charlotte Bronte, and which she subsequently ran under her own management. Listeners will remember her broadcast last year as Hermione in The Winter's Tale.
In a cast of so many distinguished actors and actresses, and well-known broadcasters, many listeners will pause at the name of Stella Patrick-Campbell , the charming and gifted daughter of Mrs. Patrick Campbell , one of the greatest actresses of modern times.
See the article on page 16
This play will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow at 7.30