Shall We Join the Ladies?
- Summary
- 1939 BBC live studio presentation of J. M. Barrie’s mystery Shall We Join the Ladies?
- Theatre play
- Shall We Join the Ladies? by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 21 April 1939
- Time
- 9.30-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- James Bridie (1888-1951)
- Cast
Frank Allenby Mr Vaile Faith Bennett Lady Jane D. A. Clarke-Smith Sir Joseph Joan Clement-Scott Mrs Castro Aubrey Dexter Butler Richard Goolden Sam Smith Peter Henschel Policeman Molly Lumley Mrs Preen Olaf Olsen Mr Gourley Mary O’Farrell Mrs Bland Audrey O’Flynn Maid Basil Radford Mr Preen Margaretta Scott Lady Wrathie Donald Strachan Captain Jennings Veronica Turleigh Mrs Vaile Josephine Wilson Miss Isit
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 25 April 1939.
- Notes
- 'Technically, Shall We Join the Ladies? is extremely difficult to produce for television, the action being confined to diners seated round a circular table. It will be interesting to see how producer George More O’Ferrall copes with the problem of showing the diner’s faces and not their backs’. (Source: listing, Radio Times, 14 April 1939, p. 14.)
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- murder; mystery
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 14 April 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 14
- Title
- Television: Shaw and Wilkes (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Grace Wyndham Goldie (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 4 May 1939, p. 963
- Linking notes
- review, including a production photograph
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