The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy

From the opening

THE SECOND ACT SCENE: Liberal Committee Room, East India Dock Road. TIME: 5 p.m.

THE THIRD ACT SCENE: The Town Hall, East Poplar. TIME: 10 p.m.

AS IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE, LONDON, ON APRIL 26TH, 1911, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MESSRS. VEDRENNE & EADIE.

Lady Mogton MARY RORKE Annys Chilvers LENA ASHWELL Phoebe Mogton ETHEL DANE Janet Blake GILLIAN SCAIFE Mrs. Mountcalm Villiers SARAH BROOKE Elizabeth Spender AURIOL LEE Rose Merton ESME BERINGER Mrs. Chinn SYDNEY FAIRBROTHER Geoffrey Chilvers, M.P. DENNIS EADIE Dorian St. Herbert LEON QUARTERMAINE Ben Lamb, M.P. A. E. BENEDICT William Gordon EDMUND GWENN Sigsby MICHAEL SHERBROOKE Hake H. B. TABBERER Mr. Peekin GERALD MIRRIELEES Mr. Hopper STANLEY LOGAN Mrs. Peekin ROWENA JEROME Miss Borlasse CATHLEEN NESBITT Miss Ricketts HETTA BARTLETT

GEOFFREY CHILVERS, M.P. A loving husband, and (would-be) (President Men’s League for the affectionate father. Like many Extension of the Franchise to other good men, he is in sympathy Women) with the Woman’s Movement: “not thinking it is coming in his time.” ANNYS CHILVERS (née Mogton, A loving wife, and (would-be) Hon. Sec. Women’s Parliamentary affection mother. Many thousands Franchise League) of years have gone to her making. A generation ago, she would have been the ideal woman: the ideal helpmeet. But new ideas are stirring in her blood, a new ideal of womanhood is forcing itself upon her. LADY MOGTON (President She knows she would be of more W.P.F.L.) use in Parliament than many of the men who are there; is naturally annoyed at the Law’s stupidity in keeping her out. PHOEBE MOGTON (Org. Sec. The new girl, thinking more of W.P.F.L.) politics than of boys. But that will probably pass. JANET BLAKE (Jt. Org. Sec. She dreams of a new heaven and a W.P.F.L.) new earth when woman has the vote. MRS. MOUNTCALM VILLIERS She was getting tired of (Vice-President W.P.F.L.) flirting. The Woman’s Movement has arrived just at the right moment. ELIZABETH SPENDER (Hons. Treas. She sees woman everywhere the W.P.F.L.

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