Monday 11 June 1928
London
and Daventry
Alice Hobson - Hilda Bruce-Potter Maggie Hobson - Edyth Goodall Vickey Hobson - Grace Edwards Albert Prosser - Roger Maxwell Henry Horatio Hobson - Roger Maxwell Mrs. Hepworth - Dora Gregory Jim Heeler - Lawrence Baskcomb William Mossop - Edward Chapman Ada Figgins - Greta Wood Timother Wadlow (Tubby) - A. Carlaw Grand Fred Beenstock - Herbert Lugg Dr. MacFarlane - J. Hubert Leslie Act I. - The interior of Hobson’s Bootshop in Chapel Street, Salford. Act II - The same Act III - A room in a cellar in Oldfield Road Act IV - Hobson’s living-room Henry Horatio Hobson, a Salford tradesman, imagines that he can impose his choice on the world at large, including his family. But Maggie, his equally uncompromising, but much clearer-sighted, daughter, succeeds in convincing him, and everyone else, that ‘Hobson’s choice’ is Maggie Hobson’s choice. |