Dreams of old singer

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 4

Dreams of old singer

A 8.8. C. production about 1 ia singer who was once a star and who dreams of returning to the limelight will; be shown on Friday at, 10.35 p.m. In the film, “Weren’t You Marcia Honeywell?” Marcia and Bernard Hooper, singing stars who were at their peak before the war, have retired in a country cottage. Bernard is more or less( settled: Marcia, now in her 60s, has never given up hope of making a comeback. She has plans for a television programme, “An Evening with Marcia Honeywell,” and her hopes rise when Graeme Toms, a 8.8. C. producer, comes to live on a' nearby farm. I But Toms directs a trendy documentary senes, I and as Marcia is not par- ; ticularly deprived there, seems no place in it for her.' j But Toms mentions her to ia drama colleague, and she' is offered a part—as an I elderly drab in what appears to be a brothel, speaking one] line. Furious, she rejects it, but; (when the programme ends (Marcia is still planning a (finale involving a staircase, floating draperies and the melodies of the day before '■ (the day before yesterday. The programme stars i Betty Marsden and Hugh I Paddick.