"The Miracle"

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 33, 24 February 1933, Page 6

"The Miracle"

One-Act Play from 2YA

"PoE one-act playlet, ‘"The Miracle,"" which Clement May and Company will broadcast from 2YA next Thursday, is something well out of the ordinary. It contains a charming story, which reminds one strongly of the writings of Sir J. M. Barrie, or Maeterlinck. The scene, which is enacted in a small room, simply furnished, of a farmhouse in a rural English district. opens at sunset On an evening during the harvesting season. The housewife is busy preparing the evening meal for those coming in from the fields. She is a very practical type of woman, with nothing of the romantic about her. The daughter, who is the centre of the story, and whose marriage is to take place the following day, is, at the moment, living for romance. She is admiring the sunset and speaking of its beauty when her mother calls her attention to the more practical things of life and explains how they would be necessary for her future happiness.

Into the scene comes a neighbour, who complains of the heat and burden of the day. Her eyes light on the daughter’s wedding _ dress, and she becomes romantic, thinking of the time when she was about to be

married. But life has not dealt kindly with her, and her married life had’ been an unhappy one. She explains this at some length to the girl, so frightening her that she becomes almost afraid of what the future will be. Left to herself, she becomes saddened at the _ picture which her neighbour had drawn. Mysterious music is heard in the distance, and into the picture comes a young man, whom she thinks she ha: seen before, but whom she cannot place in her memory. She notices a strange resemblance between him and the man she is about to marry. She bids him enter, finally putting him down in her mind as a visitor to the village, although there is something mysterious about him which — she cannot understand. He talks to her, placing a different complexion on what the future will be, and tells her to go to the cottage and wait, for her marriage would be one of happiness and content. Eventually, thonoh eho ic

loathe to let him go, he takes his departure, but remarks that he would be secing her again. It is a charming fantasy, delicately told and beautifully written. The end we must Icave to the imagination of hearers.

The Cast: The Mother .... Essie Gill The. Daughter..Eilecn Bass The Neighbour .. Joan Spencer The Man .... Clement May