Treeton Methodist Social Club
See How They Run 1950
by Phillip King
This was at Treeton on 2nd, 3rd and 4th November 1950. It was staged at Swallownest on 14th November.
Source:Local Newspaper
SOCIAL CLUB PLAY Members of the Treeton Methodist Social Club presented a play See How They Run, a farce in three acts by Philip King, on Thursday and Friday in the Methodist Schoolroom. Mr. J. W. Havard, introducing it and the members of the cast. The play was very well presented on each occasion. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Havard, joint leaders were producers and they have been highly complimented on the all round success of the show, one of the best the club has staged. The characters in order of appearance:
- Ida Miss Jean Plummer
- Miss Skillon Miss Cecily Roberts
- Rev. Lionel Toop David Harper
- Penelope Toop Miss Ida Fretwell
- Lance Corporal Clive Winton Mr. Roy Cox
- The Intruder Mr. John Holmes
- The Bishop of Lax Mr. Brian Smith
- Rev. Arthur Humphrey Mr. Kenneth Tinkler
- Sergeant Towers Mr. Arthur Parrott.
Stage Manager: Mr. J. Smith
Effects: Mr. H. Manship and Miss C. Mason
Prompter: Miss K. Banks
Scenery: Mr. D. Harper
Lighting effects: Mr. A. Rodgers
The play will be repeated tonight.
Last Saturday the football section of the club visited Dore, and beat Bellesfield Rovers by 6 goals to 2. Manship and Wright each scored a hat-trick, in a good Treeton forward line.
Outline
In this crazy British comedy, a Cockney corporal dreams of getting promoted so that he can finally receive his inheritance. To facilitate the raise in status, he masquerades as a priest and goes out one night with the vicar's glamorous, blond wife. His action starts a trend and soon he runs into a number of men in priestly garb. The trouble is, he cannot discern the real ones from the fakes until the end when he finds a fugitive convict and gets him arrested. Soon after, the plucky corporal gets his promotion.