Title | Benton Players (1) |
Date | 1923 |
Location | Rawdon |
Photo ID | E146 |
Comment | The Benton Players were a dramatic society formed by the congregation of Benton Congregational Chapel (now Trinity Church) at the junction of New Road Side and Green Lane and the then Minister Rev. W Guy Caunce. |
“Mr. Pim passes by” the first production by the society. A play by A. A. Milne, described as a quintessentially English drawing room comedy. It is about a woman who fears she has married her second husband before the first was dead.
Standing at the back Left to right: Dora Creasey, John Cree, Nancy Creasey.
Seated Left to right David Ellis, Rene Lumby, ? Rodwell, Kathleen Parker & Roy Meldrum.
Benton Players – 1924
The 1924 production was “She Stoops to Conquer” and dressed in costume the cast had a photograph taken outside Benton Congregational Chapel.
Back row left to right:
Alec Meldrum, Kathleen Parker, Donald Parker, James McLuskey, Charles Assell, Elsie Hyde, Edgar Brayshaw and John Cree.
Seated left to right: David Ellis, May Clarke, Roy Meldrum and Maude Rodwell.
Benton Players – 1925
Quality Street is a play by J M Barrie, it tells the story of two sisters who begin a school for refined genteel children.
The full cast of Quality Street:
Back row left to right are: Dora Creasey, George Roberts, Edna Gill, James McCluskey, unknown, John Cree, Donald Parker, Margaret Gilbert, David Ellis and Betty Cree.
Front row left to right are: Frank Ellis, Wilfred Trumper, Cerinthia Gascoigne, Robert Caunce,
Rene Varley, Marguerite McIntyre, Margery Caunce, Harry Winfield, Irene Denison and Ralph Ellis.
Benton Players – 1925
A dance sequence from Quality Street, on the left is Rene Varley, following to the right are Margery Caunce, Frank Ellis (with dunce’s cap) Wilfred Trumper, Irene Denison, Ralph Ellis (standing behind),
Harry Winfield, Cerinthia Gascoigne, Robert Caunce and Marguerite McIntyre.
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Consolidated by: Elaine Ellwood. 26 March 2021.
Last updated: 14 October 2022 – All images updated.