A new comedy by Hugh Williams and Margaret Williams
[Starring] Hugh Williams

A special performance from the Westminster Theatre, London, by arrangement with E. P. Clift and Jack Minster

[Photo caption] Valerie Taylor as 'Mamselle', Hugh Williams as Thomas Swinley

In the living room of the Swinleys' charming country house in Sussex hangs a dominating portrait - a portrait of the beautiful Mrs Swinley, who, when the play opens, is upstairs, about to become a mother for the fourth time. Downstairs, her husband Thomas prepares once more for the exacting role of an expectant father. This time, however, he has a number of additional problems to face and overcome in the shape of the implacable professional nurse with an exaggerated sense of responsibility, the lonely and frustrated French governess who teaches one of the sons, the family Nannie who has been with the Swinleys for years, and Rosina, the Italian cook, whose knowledge of English is limited to a few American catchphrases. In this all-too-female world Thomas has only his friend and doctor, Hubert Welsh, to turn to...