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Act 3 of “Geneva” by George Bernard Shaw was relay broadcast by BBC TV from St. James’s Theatre on April 23, 1939.

With Walter Hudd and Alexander Knox

With Alison Leggatt

With Cyril Gardiner (left) and Clement McCallin

The Sketch, August 10, 1938

“We meet, for example, Sir Orpheus Midlander, for whom Mr. Ernest Thesiger presents a clever picture of that monocled innocence which is not half so foolish as it seems.  This exponent of Chamberlainite appeasement coos like a dover, but does not wholly lack the wisdom of the serpent.  He is shouted down by the Bombardones and the Battlers, but when he gets his word in edgeways, that word is found to have an edge on it.  It is difficult to find out what his policy is, but, when you do discover it, you realise that there can be a lot of sense without much showmanship.”