ST. JAMES THEATRE
“Blanche Fury” is the week-end attraction at the St. James Theatre. The, story is about a young woman, Blanche Fury, played by Valerie Hobson, who brings new life to a beautiful country mansion when she enters it, first as a governess and later becomes its mistress. While there, howfever, she meets Philip Thom (Stewart Granger), steward to the estate and a true—though illegitimate—Fury. Blanche’s husband, he explains, is no Fury, but one who changed his name on the acquisition of Clare Hall, ancestral seat of the Fury family. Realising she loves Thorn, Blanche Helps him try to prove his right to the estate he so madly craves. When this proves impossible he kills Blanche’s husband and puts the blame on gypsies, only to learn that Blanche’s stepdaughter is the heir. Blanche denounces him on realising he intends to kill the child, and herself dies in giving birth to their son—a true Fury .—who becomes heir to the estate his father could never own.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 7
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168ST. JAMES THEATRE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 7
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