Village Hall, Cambo

‘Sir Charles Trevelyan, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and a former Minister of Education took a leading part in Bernard Shaw’s “The showing up of Blanco Posnet,” which was played in the village hall at Cambo, last night. The play was given by the Cambo Players, [a] troupe which includes employees on Sir Charles’s estate, and servants from his seat, Wallington Hall, and an admirable interpretation of the melodrama of the Wild West was given. Before the curtain rose, Lady Trevelyan announced that James Ovens, the village joiner, who should have taken the part of Blanco, and Oswald Graham, a railwayman, who was cast as Elder Daniels, had been laid aside by influenza, and the respective characters were taken by Neville Veitch and Leslie Anderson, of the People’s Theatre, Newcastle, from which Miss Edith Bulmer undertook the production of this play. Sir Charles Trevelyan, with a false moustache, riding breeches and a cowboy hat, was the typical Western Sheriff who tries the horse thief, and he put a lot of energy into the part, though was no more successful than the villagers, whose Northumberland dialect frequently broke through in the dialogue’. Shields Daily News, 5 January 1933.