"AND SO TO BED."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 18

"AND SO TO BED."

It;is-'two years,since- the: Wellington^ Thespians were,seen'ink costume play ' —when ." they .'^presented - "Hobsoris Choice"; and'it is safe.to say that ■every-' 'one" who" saw that production ;wilb be, ; looking 'forward '-"to •; the .."society's .first, .production for 4he .1937.* season, * whert "And So To Bed," a costume comedy,' by. J. B. Fagany author of "The Improper Duchess," and , other ;.famous stage successes; is "to?be presented. The play .deals with an imaginary incident in the life of Samuel Pepys, s the famous, roguish diarist of the seventeenth-cen-tury, and introduces -many ■: historical figures to be found in the pages of his diary. As the ■ author ;says,>"lt may not be historically' accurate, -apart from one or! two incidents" \tfhich are actually •' recorded,- but < there ■ are no situations which>.cannqt.-beI'paralleled in the pages > of: the '<■ diary." The-pic-ture- drawn :,of-Pepy».,showsj him,.: not as the sober Secretary of State1 for- the Admiralty, but as an ; ; amorous rogue, in a series of delicious .comedy plications. ' A strong.cast:is engaged, including "Warren Toogood"asiCharles II; - Zenocrate ■■; Mountjoy' as : 3Vlrs. Pepys; A. ■• D.- Priestley -as .-; Sainiiel Pepys;' Sinclair- Ronald," ~R.) J> Larkin, Dorothy - Tansley,5 -GeorgeI-:. Aldridge, Mary Marsden,' Eric Evan-Young, .Evan Harrowell, 8.. C.. Fqrgie,, Jean. Combs, Lorna ißaxter, Mavis, Manthel,; Beth Mapleston,;-G.v S.- Lloyd; -'and-: .Gibson Philp. The play is being-p'roduc.ed.by. D.: G.-Edwards. . ...••.