from Cox's Cafe.
(to 13.30)
relayed from the Capitol Cinema.
by Sir Stanley Leathes, K.C.B.
S.B. from Daventry.
(Continued).
by Elspeth Scott.
by Capt. Arthur J. Price.
Capt. Harris Beor
A Comedy in Three Acts by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood.
Adapted and Produced by Gordon McConnel.
Cast:
Time: August, 1915.
Betty Taradine, arrayed in Bond Street creations and wrapt in mystery, comes from London with her friend, Penelope Moon, to live at the Manor House, Petworthy, where Col. Preedy, commanding the Troops billeted in Petworthy, is quartered. Miss Liptrott, the Vicar's sister, discovers that Betty is not-as was generally supposed-a widow, but merely separated from her husband: and the breath of scandal waxes to a breeze sufficiently strong to blow peace of mind from the Manor House. The arrival of the Adjutant, Capt. Rymill, complicates a tangled situation, which is not cleared up until the last few lines of the play are spoken.
Mind Picture.- The morning room at the Manor House on an August afternoon. It is really a hall, but there is no staircase, the exits being by two doors and a French window. Ambrose Liptrott, the benign, absent-minded vicar, and Miss Liptrott, his sister, are introduced by Rose, the housemaid. They have come to call on Betty Taradine. Rose is the first to speak.