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7.30-9.30. First Performance of "The Red Pen"
A Ballad Opera in Two Acts by A.P. Herbert.
Music by Geoffrey Toye.
Produced and Conducted by L. Stanton Jefferies.
Cast: [see below]

Act I.- Hyde Park.
Act II.- St. James's Park.
Time: The Near Future.

"From My Window," by Philemon, will be given between the Acts of "The Red Pen."

Contributors

A:
Ballad Opera in Two Acts by A.P. Herbert.
Music:
by Geoffrey Toye.
Produced:
and Conducted by L. Stanton Jefferies.
Sir Robert Quint (a Cabinet Minister):
Bertram Ayrton
The Hon. Michael Gray (a Private Secretary):
Edward Leer
Henry Wordsworth (a General Secretary):
Stuart Robertson
Samuel Slate (a Pressman)/Capt. Danby (a Military Officer):
John Buckley
Mary Jane Blake (Asst. Private Secretary):
Gladys Palmer
Leader of the Consumers' Deputation:
Geoffrey Stanton
Daffodil Smith (Asst. General Secretary):
Vivienne Chatterton
Poets and Writers, Soldiers, Policemen, Pressmen. Loafers, Orators, Newsboys:
[artists uncredited]

2LO London

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