Smith

Summary

1949 BBC live studio production of W. Somerset Maugham’s Edwardian comedy Smith.

Theatre play

Smith by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. Tom comes back from Rhodesia in search of a wife, severely censures the idle rich of London, and ends by marrying his sister’s parlourmaid, Smith.

Production history

Produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, on 30 September 1909; published by William Heinemann in 1913.

Date of transmission

Saturday 10 September 1949

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Kenneth Milne Buckley

Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Sets / Settings

Richard R. Greenough

Cast

Michael Ashwin	Algy Peppercorn
Cameron Hall	Fletcher
Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)	Thomas Freeman
R. Stuart [Stuart] Lindsell	Herbert Dallas-Baker
Joan Matheson	Emily Chapman
Barbara Mullen	Smith
Pamela Stirling	Mrs Dallas-Baker
Joan Wyndham	Mrs Otto Rosenberg

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 2 September 1949 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article by Lionel Hale, ‘A Farce and a Comedy’, p. 41; listing, p. 43