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TWO SHORT COMEDIES ' WHITEMAIL '

on 2ZY Manchester

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A One-Act Comedy by ROBERT H. BLACKMORE
Characters :
THE scene is laid in Carrol's study, a somewhat dreary apartment in which the most important articles of furniture appear to be a large desk covered with papers and books and a small bamboo table, upon which stands a typewriter. The untidiness which pervades the room seems strangely at variance with the immaculate appearance of Andrew Carrol.
Entr'acte by THE STATION ORCHESTRA
' THIS FILM BUSINESS '
A Farce in One Act by EDWIN LEWIS
Performed by THE STATION REPERTORY PLAYERS
-Characters :
Two Gun Job (a Filmy Friend) A. G. MITCHESON TMAGINE yourself in Mrs. Entwistle's kitchen about that time of night when the hero and heroine on the films are kissing in their final 'close-up,' and the audience is searching for mislaid gloves, hats and handkerchiefs.
Sarah and Hannah are discussing the destinies of the young folk. These two ladies have witnessed that electric phenomenon, the transfer of attention from fate-Victorian melodrama to the modern film super-melodrama, but Sarah remains unimpressed. She is very practical, and knows that the way. to make things happen is hot to hope so much as to pull the string. Just now, like the writer of film melodrama, she is arranging her scenario for the entertainment.

Contributors

Comedy By:
Robert H. Blackmore
Unknown:
Andrew Carrol.
Unknown:
Edwin Lewis
Unknown:
A. G. Mitcheson
Andrew Carrol (an Elderly Dramatist):
E. H. Bridgstock
Elsie Carrol (His Daughter):
Ella Forsyth
Agnes (a Maid):
Emily Gavington
James H Bennett (a Novelist):
Tom Wilson
Sarah Brown (a Miner's Wife about fifty):
Mary Eastwood
Hannah Entwistle (Sarah's life-long Friend):
Lucia Rogers
Mary Entwistle (age twenty-two, Hannah's Film struck Girl):
Hylda Metcalf
Herbert Brown (a Practical Young Miner, but in love):
. Charles Nesbitt

2ZY Manchester

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