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A comedy by W. Somerset Maugham.
[Starring] Sonia Dresdel, Fabia Drake, Jack Watling, Alan Wheatley

The action takes place early in the century in Gerald Halstane's rooms in London, and at Mrs. Dot's country house on the Thames.
(June Thorburn appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)
(Second performance)

Contributors

Author:
W. Somerset Maugham
Producer:
Stephen Harrison
Designer:
Richard R. Greenough
Charles, Gerald's servant:
John Vere
Mr. Wright:
John Howlett
Mr. Rixon:
Roddy Hughes
Gerald Halstane:
Jack Watling
James Blenkinsop:
Alan Wheatley
Freddie Perkins:
Jeremy Brett
'Mrs. Dot' (Mrs. Worthley):
Sonia Dresdel
Lady Sellenger:
Fabia Drake
Nellie Sellenger:
June Thorburn
Aunt Eliza (Miss MacGregor):
Una Venning
George, Blenkinsop's servant:
Edmund Gray
Butler at Mrs. Dot's:
Alban Blakelock

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