The Constant Nymph

Summary: 1938 BBC Television production of The Constant Nymph, with Victoria Hopper reprising the role she played in a film version of the play.
Theatre play: The Constant Nymph by Basil Dean and Margaret Kennedy [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The Constant Nymph is a 1924 novel by Margaret Kennedy. It tells how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man. The novel was a best-seller after it was first published, becoming the first novel of a genre that might be called Bohemian. A significant part of its success was due to its (for the time) shocking sexual content, describing, as it does, scenes of adolescent sexuality and noble savagery in the Austrian Tyrol’. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constant_Nymph_%28novel%29.
Production history: 'Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean adapted The Constant Nymph for a three-act play that was published by Doubleday, Page and Company (Garden City, N.Y.) in 1926. A different, second edition of the play was published by William Heinemann (London) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured Noël Coward and Edna Best’. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constant_Nymph_%28novel%29.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 31 May 1938
Time: 3.00pm (90 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC