In Peter Blackmore’s play, Mrs Portal, the wife of the Borough Treasurer, always insists on taking the juvenile lead in all the town’s amateur opera evenings.  On the night that she is playing Yum Yum one of her daughters elopes with the dashing captain of the yacht “The Blue Goose”.  Unfortunately he falls overboard and the yacht drifts off with the girl aboard.  The lifeboat crew are called out – but they have all been taking part in the opera evening and are all in costume

This was the first-ever play from the Grenoside Dramatic Society, which had been “revived” a few months earlier. The society had actually started in February 1948, although we don’t yet know what happened

Mrs B. Wyke produces.  The play was rated a great success and was performed a second time at Norfolk Hill, with half the proceeds given to the Sunday School.  There are mentions for Audrey Hall who stays for 20 years, Hilda Dronfield (12 years) and Lois Wyke (23 years)

We haven’t found a programme or any photos yet