From the Little Plays of St. Francis' by LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Performed by UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. LONDON, DRAMATIC
SOCIETY
Produced by A. S. GILBERT
FOR a number of years, the Dramatic
Society of University College, London, have given annually a series of public performances (devoting the proceeds to religious charities) of these celebrated plays by Laurence Housman which illustrate episodes in the life of St. Francis of Assisi. No more delightful figure appears in the whole pageant of the Middle Ages than St. Francis, the apostle of poverty and the exponent of the simplest elements of human holiness and happiness. Listeners who remember the previous broadcasts of Brother Juniper and Sister Clare will realize how perfectly Mr. Housman's Little Plays of St. Francis' have caught the spirit of that extraordinary movement that St. Francis initiated, which remains to a great extent unique in the history of Christianity. Tonight's production is again being given by the Dramatic Society of University College, London.