Adapted (by several hands) from Madame
ELEONORE KALKOWSKA'S
Polish Stage Play and Produced at the microphone by LANCE SIEVEKING
Even the events in the smallest print of all were probably very large in the lives of the people to whom they happened
We take five news items from the small print column. They are: i. A postcard sixteen years in the post
2. The suicide of a young musician 3. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges conscience money
4. A girl convicted of stealing a watch
5. A British firm gets a contract
Dramatis Personœ
Scene I: The Newspaper Office
Narrator
Editor Voices
Scene 2 : The Delayed Postcard
Landlady Paul (A Trapeze artist)
Tin-Whistle Teny (A down)
A Girl in the Circus Audience
Seem 3 : The Musician's Suicide
Robert Godfrey (the musician) Elaine (His wife) Walter (a friend)
Mr. Short (a cabaret proprietor)
Scene 4 : Conscience Money
Herbert Smythe-Smythe Winifred (his wife) Aunt Rowena
Scene 5 Girl convicted of theft
Anne Baker (the girl) Audrey (her friend)
Jack (Audrey's friend) Shopkeeper Constable
Scene 6 : British Firm gets a Contract
Roderigo Morales (A South American
Politician) i
Pedro (his Secretary)
Mr. James Henry William Robinson
(An English Business man)
And others
The cast includes the following
V. C. CLINTON-BADDELEY
ALLAN WADE
GEOFFREY SUMNER
BEATRICE GILBERT
PHILIP WADE
JOHN GABRIEL
CHERRY COTTRELL
DEERING WELLS
ELIOT MAKEHAM
VIVIENNE CHATTERTON
ANNE TWIGG
JOAN MATHESON
ARTHUR GOULLET
GEORGE CORMACK
MAISIE SWANN
BORIS RANEVSKY
HECTOR ABBAS
This play was broadcast in the Regional programme on Monday evening