London Programme relayed from Daventry

Frank Thomas (Violin), Frank Whitnall (Cello), Vera McComb Thomas (Piano)

from the Carlton Restaurant.

from the Carlton Restaurant.

Mr. H. Kendrick

(Solo Violin - Leonard Busfield)
(Solo Piano - Vera McComb Thomas)

The Station Trio: Frank Thomas (Violin), Frank Whitnall (Cello), Vera McComb Thomas (Piano)

A Play in One Act by Norman McKinnel.
(Founded on an Incident in Victor Hugo's Novel, "Les Miserables")

The scene is laid in the plainly but substantially furnished kitchen of the Bishop's cottage in France, about thirty miles from Paris, at the beginning of the last century. On the writing table a wooden crucifix is silhouetted against a winter woodland background, seen through the window, which is facing the mind's eye. Two very handsome candlesticks, looking strangely out of place, stand on the heavy mantelpiece above the wide fireplace, in which a log fire burns brightly.
Persome is a thin, forbidding, middle-aged woman with a scolding tongue; Marie, the maid, a timid country girl; the convict, a powerful ruffian who enters with a knife in his hand and murder in his heart; and the Bishop is a benign old man, clear-eyed, with a high unfurrowed forehead.
At the commencement of the play Marie is sitting by the fire stirring some soup. Persome, who is laying the cloth, speaks.

(9.10 Local News)

in a New Song Show.
A Merry Melange of Mirthful and Melodious Mummery.

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