Directed by Sidney Firman.
Helen Alston (Songs at the Piano)
from Restaurant Frascati.
The Children's Hour Goes to the Seaside
John Thorne will sing some 'Songs of the Fleet' (C.V. Stanford). The Story of how 'Christabel goes to Yellow-sands' (Adam Goteans While) will be told, and 'Rock Pools and their Mysteries' (Reginald Gaze) will interest us on the beach.
Relayed from the New Gallery Kinema
Relayed from the Pump Room Gardens, and Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa
S.B. from Birmingham
A Play in Four Acts by Edward G. Hemmerde and Francis Neilson
Arranged for Broadcasting
Produced by R. E. Jeffrey
Act I
It is shortly after midnight. There is a table in the centre of the room on which the remains of supper appear. On one side a door opens into Mrs. Admaston's bedroom, and opposite this are two other doors.
When Peggy married George Adamston, he knew she did not love him, but hoping to win her by doing big things, he devoted himself to his political career. Unfortunately, this left the wife - restless, laughter-loving, and sweet-natured Peggy - very much alone, and in her endeavours to enjoy life, she led Roderick Collingwood to believe that her light-hearted flirtation with him meant more than it did. So, with a real desire to bring her happiness, he arranged an 'accident' whereby he and she were stranded in Paris with her maid, while the friends with whom they were travelling, Lady Attwill and Lord Ellerdine, went on to Switzerland.
At the beginning of the First Act Peggy is talking to her maid in the rooms Collingwood has taken for them in an hotel in Paris.
Act II
In the same room the next morning, Pauline sits reading a paper. She jumps up as Lady Attwill and Lord Ellerdine come in. Distressed at the news of Peggy's enforced stay in Paris with Collingwood, Lord Ellerdine has hurried back there with Lady Attwill. The Second Act finds them anxiously discussing the situation in Peggy's sitting-room while they wait for her to appear.
Act III
Six months afterwards in Court II of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. On one side sits the Judge and to the right of him the Jury. The Counsel, Solicitors and the Public face him. In the front row sit the Solicitors, the Petitioner, Respondent, Co-Respondent, Pauline and Lord Ellerdine; in the next row, leading Counsel, Mr. Menzies, Sir Robert Fyffe, Mr. McArthur, behind them a row of Junior Counsel, behind them Lady Attwill and some Ladies. Peggy is in the witness-box.
Act IV
It is later in the afternoon of the same day, in Mrs. Admaston's boudoir at Admaston House, St. James'. A window with glass doors shows a prospect of a terrace and garden. Noticeable among the furniture is a grand piano and a large settee. A Footman has just admitted Peggy, followed by Pauline and Lady Attwill.
