In her letter from 24th March it
is nearing the end of the spring term and Alice refers to end of term
activities such as teaching her last lesson, receiving grades, sitting an
anatomy test and fundraising for a conference trip by having a bob-a-job week.
Among the things she
mentions is a College Play ‘Christopher Columbus’ which was an adaptation of a
play for radio by Louis MacNeice, first broadcast on the BBC in 1942. Alice was
not in the play herself but these were clearly important occasions in the
College calendar as Alice talks about inviting an external visitor along and
waiting for critiques to appear in the local press. Tickets for this production
were charged at 2s 6d and 1s 6d, which would be approx. £2.80 and £1.60 today. By
Alice’s time at the College, posters and programmes for these performances were
printed (as below) but in the earlier days they were all hand produced. The
Archive holds some beautiful handwritten and illustrated programmes from
earlier years, including some believed to have been illustrated by Cicely Read
who was a student at the College from 1909-1911 and went on to become Principal
for a short time before her sudden death in 1949.
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| Programme for the production 'Christopher Columbus' |
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