Distinguished Gathering

Summary: 1948 BBC live outside broadcast of James Parish’s play Distinguished Gathering, from The Intimate Theatre, Palmer’s Green, by permission of Frederick Marlow.
Theatre play: Distinguished Gathering by James Parish (1904-1974) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Publisher Felix Montague invites a number of people to his home. He is about to publish a book of memoirs by Eliot Vines and it will expose the various skeletons in each guests closet. Vines is due to join the group and Montague proposes they murder him - when the lights go out one of their number shall stab him. Montague has arranged for someone to telephone the police and confess and for a dress and wig to be found near the house. The guests must swear that there was another woman at the house and these were the items she wore. However, when Vines arrives he is suspicious of the way the others are acting and he telephones the police before one of the guests can strike.' Source: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsP/parish-james.html#95538.
Production history: Published in 1936.
Date of transmission: Thursday 8 July 1948
Time: 7.15-9.30pm
Channel: BBC Television

Presented for Television by

Campbell Logan

Theatre Producer

J. Grant Anderson

Playwright

James Parish (1904-1974)

Cast

Vivienne Burgess	Derinda Caswell
Betty Cooper	Judith Montague
Roger Delgado	Eliot Richard Vines
Betty England	Lady Thalia Wilmer
Michael Gover	Sir Brian Howet
Ernest Haines	Major ‘Runty’ Pearson
Barbara Hemingway	'Lesley Gest’
Enid Hewitt	Caroline Beckwith
Oliver Packer	Detective-Sergeant Ferris
Richard Preston	Detective-Sergeant Ramage
Roy Purcell	Detective-Inspector Rutherford
David Raven	Felix Montague
Toke Townley	Blair
Leonard White	C. D. Williams

Title: Live from the Intimate Theatre, 1946-1949, part 2 (Blog article)
Author/creator: John Wyver (Author)
Reference: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/live-from-the-intimate-theatre-1946-1949-part-2, published 16 February 2012

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