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T
HE
1918 S
CHOOL
C
HRISTMAS
P
LAY
‘A C
HRISTMAS
C
AROL
’
PERFORMED IN
D
ECEMBER
1918
AFTER THE
A
RMISTICE
This was the first such extravaganza since 1913 and was produced/directed mainly by the Reverend J.W. Griffiths (seated fifth from the right) and Richard Meadows White
(Centre, dressed as Scrooge). The doyen of previous School theatricals, Wilfrid Cowell was also involved as a ‘consultant’. Everyone threw themselves into this production,
with the School carpenters building the scenery and wives of staff and female employees sewing the elaborate costumes involved. Meadows White was something of an
ebullient character, much into theatricals and a brilliant cartoonist as well (examples survive in the archives). He was later an actor on stage in the cinema and even television.
A critique of this performance congratulated him on his ingenuity and flair but though he might have got carried away!