Record Number: 30030

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members then read the play Green Pastures, with exception only of one big scene. Edgar Castle took the part of “De Lord Jehovah” (unavoidably absent) and Frank Pollard (perhaps with boyhood memories of the days when he was B. B. le Tall’s licensed jester) played the Archangel Gabriel. Of the others it might be said that each man in his turn played many parts, and Reginald Robson was a veritable Henry V at Agincourt, Pyrrhus at Troy, + Condé at Rocroi rolled into one with here and there a touch of the angels at Mons.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

27 Jan 1937

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Frensham, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edgar Castle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1897

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Schoolmaster, Headmaster of Leighton Park; subsequently Professor of Education at Hull, then Visiting Professor at Makerere

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Marc Connelly

Title:

Green Pastures

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1936

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30030

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

182

Additional Information:

Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1931 to 1940. It is inferred from this that he was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 182, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30030, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

A screen version of Green Pastures had been released the previous year.

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).