The Geisha

Autumn 1957

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The Society's Autumn 1957 production was The Geisha, adapted from the book by Owen Hall with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and music by Sidney Jones.

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CAST

Lieutenant Reginald Fairfax
Lieutenant Bronville
Lieutenant Cunningham
Lieutenant Grimston
Mr Midshipman Stanley
Wun Hi (a Chinaman, proprietor of the Tea House of Ten Thousand Joys)
Marquis Imari (Chief of Japanese Police and Governor of the Province)
Police Sergeant Takemini (Attendant on the Marquis)
Lieutenant Katana (of the Imperial Japanese Artillery)
Lady Constance Wynne (an English lady travelling around the world on her yacht)
Molly Seamore        )
Ethel Hurst              ) Friends of hers
Marie Worthington )
Mabel Grant            )
Juliette (a French girl attached to the tea house as an interpreter)
O Mimosa San (Chief Geisha)
Nami (an Attendant)

Bryn Rees
Peter Taylor
Kenneth Stallard
Andrew Hirst
John Rawstron

Leonard Manly

Keith Browne

Joe McCabe

Howard Brebner


Emmie Skinner
Muriel Earnshaw
Dinah Rogers
Christine Allen
Thora Sherman

Villia Harper
Audrey Hirst
Carole Brooks

Geisha







Chorus of Japanese Ladies, Gentlemen, Policemen and Guards

Beryl Davidson
Maud Venn
Pauline Parsley
Jean McRea
Catherine Gunn
Mary Baker
Gwen Leaver
Pauline Gibbs
Ann Irvine
Dorothy Macintosh
June Pickard
Fred Aldred
Kenneth Adam
Alec Buchanan
John Barclay
Malcolm Dando
Harold Herbert
Robert Lambert
Cyril Pilcher
Harold Rogers

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CREW

Producer and Musical Director
Chorus Mistress and Conductor
Stage Manager
Property Mistress
Stage Lighting
Wardrobe Mistress
Make-up
Costumes

Winifred Spruce

Grace Gibb
Louis Bradfield
Elsie Jones
Peter Large
Vera Browne
Kathleen Field
B.J. Simmons & Co

House Manager
Box Office

Pianists



Flowers
Scenery

John Parsley
Moyna Stallard
Margery Graves
Regine Brebner
Jessie Douton
Margery Graves
Margaret Gray
Maud Venn
Designed by Richard Graves and executed by him, Harry Venn and the Scenery Club

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PHOTOS

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