The Park Theatre, Hanwell
November 1929
Directed by Alec Payne
Cast:
Margaret Browne, Isobel Browne, Frank Cockburn, Phil Elliott, Alfred Emmet, Frank Emmet, Norah Hadley, Guy Hadley, Heather Hobson, P Miskin, John Regan, John Ruck, Barbara Sharp, Hilda Simpson
Production Team:
Alec Payne, Isobel Browne
On September 5th, 1929, a new theatre group was formed in Ealing, having 17 members and a bank balance of 7s.11½d. The group comprised half a dozen or so enthusiastic young people, who had previously acted together in various local productions, and a number of their friends who had been persuaded to join them. The aim was merely to enable the friends to act together more regularly and more often.
Alfred Emmet recalls:
Being all very young at the time, we had very big ideas. A dramatic society was to be only one part of a larger new local organisation, and so we solemnly christened ourselves ‘The Ealing Junior Arts Club (Dramatic Section)’. This was of course a great impertinence on our part because it was done without any reference to the well-established and active Ealing Arts Club which, not unnaturally, took considerable exception. So the name had to be changed, and at an historic meeting over lunch in a Soho Restaurant one Sunday in November, it was decided, for no particular reason except that by the coffee stage no-one had thought of anything better, to change the name to ‘The Questors’.”
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