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Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Fashions
A display of sportswear and holiday clothes, selected by Bettie Spurling.

Cake Making
Marguerite Patten shows how to make, without using an oven, quick cakes to be eaten hot.

Loose Covers
Gwenyth Clark, in the first of a series of four programmes, shows how to make a loose cover for an armchair.

Handyman
W. P. Matthew gives more advice on jobs about the home.

(to 16.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Clothes selecter (Fashions):
Bettie Spurling
Cook (Cake Making):
Marguerite Patten
Item presenter (Loose Covers):
Gwenyth Clark
Handyman:
W. P. Matthew
Edited and produced by:
S. E. Reynolds

by Rose-Mary Sands.

The action of the play takes place at Kensington Palace in the year 1837.
(Hazel Penwarden is appearing in "Winter Journey" at the St. James's Theatre)
Second performance next Sunday
(to 17.40)

Contributors

Writer:
Rose-Mary Sands
Designer:
Stephen Taylor
Producer:
Pamela Brown
Mellows, a butler:
Walter Horsbrugh
Maria, a maid:
Nancy Manningham
Pip, a young footman:
Wilfred Downing
Marc, a gypsy boy:
Jimmy Verner
Gypsy:
Peter Newington
Gypsy:
Robert Irvine
Gypsy:
Hazel Penwarden
Princess Victoria:
Margaret Barton
Baron Stockmar:
Carl Duering
Lehzen the governess:
Dorothea Alexander
Duchess of Kent, Victoria's mother:
Elaine Inescort
Lady Flora Hastings:
Fiona Cunningham
The Archbishop of Canterbury:
A.J. Brown
Lord Conynham, the Lord Chamberlain:
J. Leslie Frith

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