The SIlver Box

Summary

1949 BBC live studio production of John Galsworthy’s drama The SIlver Box.

Theatre play

The SIlver Box by John Galsworthy (1867-1933) [more information]

Play synopsis

A play in which ‘the theft of a prostitute’s purse by a rich "young man of good family" is placed beside the theft of a silver cigarette case from the rich man’s father’s house by "a poor devil", with very different repercussions’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy).

Production history

First staged at the Court Theatre, London in 1906.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 15 November 1949

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)

Playwright

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

Cast

Derek Blomfield	Jack Barthwick
Margery Bryce	Mrs Barthwick
Muriel Gee	Mrs Seddon
Linda Gray	Wheeler
William Hyde
Felix Irwin	Marlow
Christoper John
Harry Lane	Snow
Elizabeth Maude	An Unknown Lady
Dodd Mehan	Roper
William Mervyn	Magistrate’s Clerk
John Moyes
Leslie Parker
Nancy Price (1880-1970)	Mrs Jones
Keith Pyott	Police Magistrate
Peter Rennie	Policeman
Kevin Sheldon	Usher
Edmund Willard	Jones
Arthur Young	John Barthwick, MP

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

class issues / differences

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 11 November 1949 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 46, article by Lionel Hale, ‘Away with the Drawing Room’, p. 45