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Nancy Broxopp Mary Jerrold. Mary Margaret Carter. Broxopp Edmund Gwenn. Benham J.H. Roberts. Alice Gwen Hubbard. Honoria Johns Marjorie Gabain. Jack Broxopp Ian Hunter. Iris Tenterden Faith Celli. Sir Roger Tenterden Dawson Milward. Norah Field Beatrix Thomson. Ronald Derwent Richard Bird.

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Scene: The GREAT BROXOPP’S lodgings in Bloomsbury; a humble room in late Victorian days, for BROXOPP has only just begun. He has been married for six months, and we see NANCY (the dear) at work, while her husband is looking for it. He is an advertising agent, in the days when advertising agents did not lunch with peers and newspaper proprietors. Probably he would prefer to call himself an “adviser to men of business.” As we see from a large advertisement over the sideboard—drawn and lettered by hand (NANCY’S)—he has been hoping to advise SPENLOW on the best way to sell his suspenders. SPENLOW, we are assured, “gives that natty appearance.” The comfort, says THE GREAT ONE, in an inspired moment: