Paddly Pools
Examiner of Plays' Summary:
A prettily-written fairy-play for children, a trifle hazy - as moral allegories are apt to be - in its didactic significnce.It shows how a small boy who is perpetually asking difficult questions of his puzzled grandfather solves some of them for himself in the course of his dream-interview with a benevolent Little Old Man who introduces him to the Spirits of the Flowers, the Trees, and the Rabbits, and preaches to him a kindly pantheistic philosophy of life. Quite wholesome if rather vague [...]
Licensed On: 22 Mar 1916
License Number: 146
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British Library Reference: LCP1916/6
British Library Classmark: Add MS 66127 T
Performances
| Date | Theatre | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | New Theatre, London | Unknown | Licensed Performance |
| 1 Jul 1916 | Court Theatre, London | Professional |
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Performed as part of a matinee organised by Ruth Parrott and Dorothy Dawkins in aid of the Star and Garter Building Fund, and performed at 3pm on 1 July 1916. In the second act, Gertrude Jenning's 'The Rest Cure' was also performed.
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