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Will give the first talk in the new scries, My
Aims and Ideals in the Theatre '
FEW of our listeners cannot have seen either
The Immortal Hour or The Farmer's Wife.
They owed both to Sir Barry Jackson. The founder of the Birmingham Repertory Company has done, and is doing, good work for the English theatre. And the man who has been responsible alike for the various productions of Shakespeare in modern dress, and Mr. Eden Philpotts ' plays, to say nothing of the heroic enterprise of Back to Methuselah, must obviously be a man of wide interests and a catholic mind, both qualities exceedingly to be desired in a theatrical manager

A Play in one Act by ALLAN MONKHOUSE
Characters :
Miss Perkins : Who is the Grand Cham ?
Mr. Perkins : 'E'8 one o' them Eastern potentates. 'E's been 8tayin' at the Majestic Hotel. The dimond was taken out of the 8ettin' and a walnut substituted.
Mrs. Perkins usually complains that ' it's the same every night.' This evening she must confess she has her ' bit of fun for once.'

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