Love's A Luxury

Love's A Luxury

The programme for a farce performed by The Hambros Bank Dramatic Society in which Henry played Bobby Bentley.

Four printed sheets

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The Hambros Bank Dramatic Society

presents

“Love’s a Luxury”

A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts

by

GUY PAXTON and EDWARD V. HOILE

at

CRIPPLEGATE THEATRE
GOLDEN LANE, E.C.

on

Wednesday, 4th February, 1953

Produced under the direction of Mr. LEONARD TERWEY

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Cast

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(characters in order of their appearance)

Molly . . . ANNE CLARK
Charles Pentwick . . . C. A. HEADLEY
Bobby Bentley . . . H. F. HOWARD
Mr. Mole . . . G. H. CLARKE
Fritzy Villiers . . . NOREEN DANIEL
Dick Pentwick . . . I. PASCOE
Mrs. Charles Pentwick . . . MARGARET SMITH
Mrs Harris . . . QUEENIE LOTT
Jollop . . . D. J. THOMASON
Fritzy Villiers’ Dog . . . Miss CORRIE DENNE

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Synopsis of scenery

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Everything happens in the Lounge Hall of “Cranberry Cottage”, a week-end retreat in the wilds of the West Country

There will be an interval of fifteen minutes after Act I and Act II

General Business Manager . . . Mr. C.D. GREENOP
Stage Manager . . . Mr. F. T. BARBER
Stage Manager for Cripplegate Theatre . . . Mr. J. J. DENNIS
Front of the House . . . Mr. P. F. BROWNING

SMOKING NOT PERMITTED IN THE AUDITRIUM

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PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS

ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN PEGGY
ELIZA COMES TO STAY
THE SPORT OF KINGS
THE FAKE
IN FOUR WALLS TOLD
9.45
AMBROSE APPLEJOHN’S ADVENTURE
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
LAST WORD LTD.
TONY DRAWS A HORSE
ON MONDAY NEXT

THE HIGH ROAD
YELLOW SANDS
MIDDLE WATCH
NINE TILL SIX
FRESH FIELDS
WINTER SUNSHINE
LABURNHAM GROVE
HAWK ISLAND
THE BLUE GOOSE
TILL FURTHER ORDERS
A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED

The Committee desire to thank those members of the staff who have acted as programme sellers and stewards

“In accordance with the requirements of the Licensing Authorities:

(a) The public may leave at the end of the performance by all exits and entrance doors, and such doors must at that time be open.!
(b) All gangways, passages and staircases must be kept entirely free from chairs or any other obstruction.
(c) Persons must not not [sic] be permitted to stand or sit in any of the intersecting gangways, or if standing is permitted in the gangways at the sides and rear of the seating, sufficient space must be left for persons to pass easily to and fro.
(d) The safety-curtain must be lowered about the middle of the performance so as to ensure its being in proper working order.”