'The action takes place in a studio audition-room [...] The story concerns Larry Carlson, Australian soldier, and Clay Tuttle, an American serviceman, who meet in Finschhafen, New Guinea. When both are invalided out of the Army, they meet again in Sydney, and it is then that their plans of acquiring a radio station are realised. The success of this venture depends entirely on interesting two wealthy sponsors. An audition is duly arranged, and Mr. McGuinnis is present, while Mr. Mandelberg listens-in at home. But Mr McGuinnis rather complicates things by falling out of his chair, dead. It is then that things begin to happen.'
Source: 'Thriller by Local Dramatist', Australian Women's Weekly, 5 August 1944, p.15.
Characters
CLARENCE PARSONS a radio actor
MURIEL PARSONS his wife
ARNOLD VICKERY studio supervisor
FERN SUTTON
CLAY TUTTLE
LARRY CARLSON general manager
CHARLES MCGINNIS a visitor
MRS. JANET VAN LEYDEN
JOSEPH MANDELBERG a businessman
First produced by J. C. Williamson at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, June 1944.
Cast members included Aileen Britton, John McCallum, John O'Malley, Edward Howell, Edward Finn, Enid Lorimer, Clive Coppard, and Robert Crome.
Production by John Aiden.
