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An All-Star Revue
Astronomical Survey by Dorothy Eaves
Meteorologic Music by Various Composers
The following Celestial Bodies will be heard but not seen: [see below]
The Pleiades Chorus
The Major and Minor (Key) Planets
The Station Orchestra

Contributors

Writer:
Dorothy Eaves
Singers:
The Pleiades Chorus
Musicians:
The Station Orchestra
The Great Bear:
Donald Davies
A Satellite:
Sidney Evans
Neptune:
John Rorke
Mrs. Mercury:
Dorothy Eaves
Luna and Lunacie (two Moon-mad Mummers):
Blonde and Brunette
Stella, a Singer:
Elsie Eaves
The Fallen Star:
Arthur Holland

A Cameo by Gordon McConnel
Scene: A quiet room-the only quiet room in a country house where most of the guests are enjoying life. The Maid, having quarrelled with the Man, who departed for ever (sic) yesterday, has stolen away from the Charlestonians to this haven of rest in order to be thoroughly miserable with the help of a piano.
Incidentally after the tiff:-

Enter the Muddlehead, looking for the Maid and asking for trouble. He offers her his heart and his hand, which she refuses, and a which she accepts and leaves him to smoke alone.

Enter the Man, who has returned to add a P.S. to the aforementioned letter, looking for the Maid and finding the Muddlehead, who asks tactless questions concerning the Maid and the Man. The latter airily replies that he intends to remain

Re-enter the Maid, really looking for the Man, trying to look as if she were looking for a lost handkerchief and finding the Muddlehead still there. An intensive bombardment of pointed remarks drives the Muddlehead into the cold corridor, and the Man banteringly assures the Maid:-

The Maid's sense of humour being temporarily in eclipse, she replies that:-

But the re-entry of the Muddlehead makes her realize that the Man has certain excellent qualities, which other men apparently lack, so she becomes once more her normal merry self and bids the Man:-

Contributors

Writer:
Gordon McConnel
The Man:
Herbert Simmonds
The Maid:
Wynne Ajello
The Muddlehead:
Daniel Roberts

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