A Play in One Act, by E. TEMPLE THURSTO
Characters :
In the living-room of her cottage,
Mary Tregarth sits on a stool by the fire, stirring the embers to hasten the boiling of her kettle for tea. From the cross-beams of the roof hang some brown fishing nets, with corks attached. A door, the upper half opening independently of the lower, leads out to the cliff road, and beyond is tho sea.
EQUALLY well known as a novelist and as a dramatist, Mr. E. Temple Thurston is a writer who can be confident of having a full house ' when a new work of his is produced before the microphone. As a novelist he has an assured public for such books as ' The Greatest Wish in the World,' ' The City of Beautiful Nonsense,' and-to name more recent examples-' Charmeuse' and 'The Goose-Feather Bed.' As a playwright he has established his reputation with such continued successes as The Wandering Jew. As listeners will find tonight, this now play of his that is being broadcast for the first time is a return from the more spectacular manner of the last-mentioned and, for instance, Judas Iscariot , to tho quieter, more homely, but not less gripping drama of A Roof and Four Walls.