Official Opening by Lord Somers, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., Deputy
Chief Scout from the Moot Camp, Monzie,
Crieff
A play in six scenes by John Drinkwater
Adapted for broadcasting by Victor Tandy with John Arnatt as ' Abraham Lincoln ' and Victor Tandy as ' General Grant' also taking part
Frank Harvey , Junr., Douglas Seale , Oliver Burt , Elaine Wodson , Anne Boyd , Evelyn Neilson , Ruth Wynn Owen, Richard Longman , Norman Scace , Gordon Edwards ,
John Franklyn , Donald Bissett
Scenes
1 Lincoln's House at Springfield,
Illinois, early 1860
2 Seward's Room at Washington,
1861
3 Small reception room at the White
House about 1863
4 A meeting of the Cabinet at
Washington, 1863
5 A farmhouse near Appotomaz,
General Grant's Headquarters
Part 1, Evening
Part 2, Next morning
6 Lounge of a Theatre, April 14,
1865
The Play produced by James McKechnie
N.B.-In accordance with the late author's wishes, in presenting this play we have not attempted the American dialect.