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The Scene - Acts I., II. and III. - is in the Library of Sir Roderick's Country House - a Library used not so much for study as for the more human practices of conversation and other devices invented by Society for wasting time as comfortably as possible.
Act I., The Afternoon.
Act II, The Evening.
Act III., Two o'clock in the Morning.

Contributors

The book by/lyrics:
E.R.R. Linklater
Lyrics/music:
A.F. Hyslop
Producer:
C.W. Walker
Producer:
G.R. Harvey
The Prince of Polostan (A Potentate with a Punch):
Max Wright
Loofa (his Bodyguard-The Punch):
R.A. Simpson
Sir Roderick Dew (a semi-retired Diplomat of Highland extraction):
A.W. Grafton
Lady Dew (formerly Pauline Monk) (his Second Wife - She had to wait till he got acclimatized):
Avis Anderson
Jane (Daughter of Sir Roderick Dew and his first Wife) (ready to be a Limpet to any Rocky-looking Cave Man):
Jane Mair
Nadine-de-la-Zutte (More Dangerous than Dynamite):
Daisy Moncur
Lady Sybil Syssingeham (An English Rose - no home complete without one):
Isobel Walker
The Hon. Ethelbert Mostyn (he loves Jane, but who ever saw a Limpet on a Jellyfish?):
J.H.S. Peterkin
Oliver Monk (Puggle) (an Egoist who wants to be Yokled):
E.R.R. Linklater
The Unknown Guest (but nobody guessed):
Walter Graham

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