Pensions Issue Office, Acton Vale, London

‘For four and a quarter hours, an audience of about 2,500, which assembled in a bay of the huge canteen of the Pensions Issue Office, Acton Vale, on Tuesday night, was kept interested in a programme of song, recitation, dance, orchestral music and the drama arranged for its benefit by the Acton Workers’ Education Association and the Acton Civil Service Orchestral Society … The great triumph was, however, the appearance of a strong company in “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet,” which the society had given on a previous occasion, and now repeated, with only minor alterations in the cast, with increased virility, gusto and success. The play was admirably stage-managed, and the crowd of more or less boisterous characters, male and female, in court, to help in putting the rope round the neck of the horse-thief, sustained the realism of turbulent Far West “justice"' (Acton Gazette, 23 November 1928).