The Ladies of 1950
(Left) Miss sylvia peters and (below) Miss mary malcolm, who, with MacDonald Hobley, introduce today’s programmes with: ‘This is the B B C Television Service.”
MacDonald Hobley
Television builds its playhouse
Television builds its playhouse
From the two Studios at Alexandra Palace come a hundred plays a year; drama in all its forms. One evening the realistic presentation of life on a transatlantic waterfront. On another, the forth of small talk in a Mayfair drawing room.
(Above) The Gentle People by Irwin Shaw set in a Brooklyn slum.
(Left) The Eternal Triangle set in London’s West End.
macdonald hobley (right centre), whose smile is familiar to every viewer, demonstrates, with a rare frown, that he is also an actor of talent.