February 1930: Naomi Jacob – “The Dawn” – “Play of Jacobite Times” – Radio Broadcast from Glasgow

An article on page four of The Scotsman, on Wednesday the 12th of February, 1930, reads:

 

“RADIO PROGRAMMES.

Play of Jacobite Times.

 

NAOMI JACOBS’S [sic] play, ‘The Dawn,’ is being broadcast from Glasgow at 8.30 this evening to all

British stations. The play, which deals with an entirely new point of view in the chequered history of

Charles Edward Stewart, strikes a note which should appeal to listeners.

 

The time of the action is the year 1752, and listeners will hear the mythical return of the Young Pretender

to the home of a Jacobite and his wife. The dialogue between the fallen idol of the House of Stewart and the

Highland woman strikes an original note, and the play is an attempt to portray the philosophic view which

the followers of Bonnie Prince Charlie took of the lost Stewart cause. Miss Elliot C. Mason is producing this

play.

 

Professor Graham Kerr will give at 7.25 (also to all stations) the fourth of his talks on ‘Links in the Chain of

Life.’ His subject on this occasion concerns the bird.”

 

 

In the listings below the article, is the following:

 

“8.30—’The Dawn,’ a play in one act by Naomi Jacobs [sic], produced by Elliot Mason,

Music by the Octet.  S.B. from Glasgow.”

 

 

 

The British Newspaper Archive.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2024.