The SIlver Box

Summary

1959 BBC Television production of The SIlver Box by John Gallsworthy.

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 25 August 1959

Time

8.30-10.00pm

Series

Television World Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Michael Leeston-Smith

Playwright

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

Designer

Guy Sheppard

Cast

Laurence Archer	unnamed part
Peter Collingwood	Magistrate’s Clerk
Fiona Dempster	Unknown Lady
Patrick Desmond	unnamed part
Edna Dore	Mrs Seddon
Alec Foster	Police Constable
Irene French	unnamed part
Lionel Gadsden	unnamed part
Terence Greenridge	unnamed part
Nelly Griffiths	unnamed part
Lee Harris	unnamed part
Joan Harsent	unnamed part
Joan Haythorne	Mrs Barthwick
John Herrington	Swearing Clerk
Colin Jeavons	Jack Barthwick
Carol Jones	unnamed part
Desmond Jordan	Marlow
Ivor Kimmel	unnamed part
Esmond Knight	John Barthwick, MP
Donald McCollum	Usher
Ronald Meyer	unnamed part
Pat Milner	unnamed part
Gordon Pleasant	unnamed part
Joyce Purton	unnamed part
Llewellyn Rees	Magistrate
Trevor Reid	Relieving Officer
Graham Rowe	Roper
Henry Soskin	Lievens
Rowena Torrance	Wheeler
Patrick Troughton	Jones
Margaret Tyzack	Mrs Jones
Stanley Van Beers	Snow
Diane Woolley	unnamed part

Additional details

Play tags

class issues / differences

Print sources

Title

Galsworthy’s Own Social Scene: The Silver Box (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Guardian, 26 August 1959, p. 5

Title

Radio Times, 21 August 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 13