Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 5th October 1934

Entertainment at Uplowman: Successful Effort for Church Funds: For many years Miss Chave has kindly arranged an entertainment in the aid of the funds of the Parish Church. They have always been deservedly popular, and none more so than those held on Monday and Tuesday … … the programme opened with a couple of violin solos creditably rendered by Master Pinsent, a senior scholar of the Day School. The scholars of the lower standard gave a pretty presentation of the sketch “The King’s Breakfast” … The upper standard was equally good in their presentation of “Little Tuk’s Dream”; the characters here being: Ena Burnett (Queen Elizabeth), Ernest Pinsent (Skakespeare), Jack Rowsell (Sir Francis Drake), Victor Burston, (Sir Walter Raleigh), Bertie Ware (Lord Bacon), Willie Davey (“Little Tuk”), and Freda Wright (washer woman) …

[see similar, Western Times: Friday 5th October 1934]


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Referenced

GRO0274 Bristol: Ernest John Pinsent: 1920 – 2011