An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts by EDMOND ROSTAND
Arranged for Broadcasting and Produced under the Supervision of ROBERT LORAINE
Characters :
Citizens, Musketeers. Thieves, Pastrv
"ooks, Poets, Cadets of Gascoyne,
Actors, Spanish Soldiers, Spectators,
Academicians, Nuns and Others the plays begins at a sort of Tennis court arranged with a stage in the Hall of the Hotel de Boulogne in 1640. THIS fine romantic play, founded on the adventures of Rostand's large-nosed, but high-souled, hero was produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, in March, 1919, when Mr. Robert Loraine created the part that he will play tonight.
One of the very finest of our romantie actors, he is also very versatile, and amongst h.s most notable successes have been such diverse parts as John Tanner m Man and Superman, Rudolf in The
Prisoner of Zenda, and, quite recently.
Mirabell in Mr. Playfair's production of The Way of the World. Amongst his most notable broadcast performances was his impressive reading of the Biblical passages that linked up tho parts of Honegger's
King David,' when it was given in the tenth of the B.B.C.'s National Concerts.