Distinguished Gathering by James Parish
The Odeon Theatre, Taunton, 1st – 3rd February,
1937
Audiences were given a slip with the question ‘Who Killed Eliot Vines?’ printed on it, and were invited to submit their theories and names and addresses during the second interval. The names of those with correct solutions were displayed in the foyer as the audience left!
| Cast | |
| Felix Montague | Robert Young |
| Judith Montague | Doris Barber |
| Sir Brian Howet | John Stapleton |
| Lady Thalia Wilmer | Kathleen Marfell |
| “Lesley Guest” | Gladys Young |
| Caroline Beckwith | Barbara Spencer |
| C D Williams | Harold Billett |
| Major ‘Runty’ Pearson | John Went |
| Dorinda Caswell | Margaret Way |
| Eliot Richard Vines | Wilfred Westlake |
| Blair | Jack S Chambers |
| Detective-Inspector Rutherford | Charles Cole |
| Detective-Sergeant Ferris | Charles Burrough |
| Detective-Sergeant Ramage | Arnold Barber |
| Backstage | |
| Produced by | John Wilkins |
| Stage Manager | Leslie Pritchett Brown |
| Assisted by | A R Barker, G Maynard and G Peat |
| Scenery designed by | G M Haslam |
| Orchestra conducted by | Louis Hulatt |