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A Play in One Act by SUSAN GLASPELL
Characters :
SCENE : The kitchen in the now-abandoned farm. house of John Wright , a gloomy room, and left without having been put in order-unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the table, and other signs of incompleted work. The outer door opens and the Sheriff comes in, followed by the County Attorney and Hale. The Sheriff and Hale are men in middle life. the County Attorney is a young man; all are much bundled up, and go at once to the stove. They are followed by the two women-the Sheriff's wife first. She is a slight wiry woman with a thin, nervous face. Mrs. Hale is larger and would ordinarily be called more comfortable-looking; but she is disturbed now, and looks fearfully about as she enters. The women have come in slowly, and stand close together near the door.

THE Little Theatre movement in America has produced many notable playwrights, and Miss Susan Glaspell is one of them. Her plays were brought to notice by the Provincetown Players, one of the most famous of the 'Art' Theatre companies, and she is now a dramatist and novelist with an assured reputation in England and the United States. Two of her plays were acted in London - The Verge and Suppressed Desires - and her recent book, ‘The Road to the Temple,' created much interest.

8.30 OCTET Violin Solo, ' Hejre, Kati!' (Hello, Katie!) with Quintet Accompaniment - Hubay
Entr'acte, ' Un peu d'Amour' (A Little Love) - Silesu
Selection from ' Samson and Delilah' - Saint-Saens
Medley, Trifolium ' - arr. Moss
8.45 ETHEL FENTON When the swallows Homeward fly - M. V. White
Bright is the ring of words - Vaughan Williams
Life's Gifts - Clutsam
8.52 OCTET Zampa - Herold Idyl, Traum der Sennerin' (An Alpine Dairy-maid's Dream) - Labitzky

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Glaspell
Unknown:
John Wright
Unknown:
Miss Susan Glaspell
George Henderson (a County Attorney):
Harold Young
Henry Peters (a Sheriff):
H. St. Barbe West
Lewis Hale (a neighbouring:
George Courteney
Mrs Peters:
May Saker
Mrs Hale:
Florence Wood

TRAVELLING in many parts of South
America is a business for an explorer rather than a tourist, and in her latest journey in search of Indian legends and folk-lore at first hand Miss Diana Houghton-Rogers found her way into some of the strangest places of that strange Continent. Amongst her means of travel were the invaluable canoe, the only means of penetrating to the settlements of the tribes who live amongst the trackless forests of the Upper Amazon; a motor car. which she took over roads hitherto thought impassable : and a small steamer in the wild seas of the South Atlantic. Listeners may be assured, therefore, that the story of her expedition is full of thrills.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss Diana Houghton-Rogers

2LO London and 5XX Daventry

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