1969

November

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This Happy Breed

A Play in Three Acts by Noel Coward

Produced by Leslie Fawkes

	Cast
	Mrs. Flint (Frank's Mother-in-law)	Marjorie Brown
	Ethel (his Wife)	Binkie Holmes
	Sylvia (his sister)	Joan French
	Frank Gibbons	Percy Hodgson
	Bob Mitchell	Jack Marshall
	Reg *	Bob Held
	Queenie *	Yvonne Leete
	Vi *	Anne Graham
	Sam Leadbitter	Del Smith
	Phyllis Blake	Pam Sands
	Edie (a Maid)	Lydia Perry
	Billy	Malcolm Fursdon
	* Frank's children
	The action of the Play passes in the dining-room of the Gibbons' house, 17 Sycamore Road, Clapham Common.
	Interval Music	Tommy May

No less than five out of this twelve-strong cast make their debut during this performance. Among them is a young Del Smith, still to be seen treading the boards some 40 years later.
The newspaper article mentions one special challenge presented by this play, in terms of the ageing of cast members as a number of years pass. The script shows that this period is, in fact, some twenty years, as the action begins in June 1919 and ends in June 1939. Unfortunately I don't have sufficient information to enable me to sort the pictures into chronological order.