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by Hazel K Bell
Say It With Flowers
Methuen Drama:

Nine short, comic sketches. Say It With Flowers (cast 3m, 2f); Multiple Choice (1m, 1 either, host of authors); Aquarium (3m); Rustic Retreat (5m, bird); The End of the Affair (1m, 1f); Talk to the Animals (narrator, 1 man, 1 boy); Light Fantastic Toes (2m, host of patients offstage); The Search for Self (2m, 1f); Let Me Count the Ways (1m, 1f)

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by Hazel K Bell
A Stage Mother's Story
Methuen Drama:

A unique account of the effects of an actor's career on home life and his mother. Describes how he took over the family garage as a children's theatre, filled the house with recording equipment and touring actors in sleeping bags, cast a production of The Rocky Horror Show from home, toured the Continent in a rock musical, and settled as an impresario/performer in Vienna. Includes descriptions of post-war seaside entertainment, drama school, tours, mounting a new production, child chaperones, performing cabaret, dealing with agents, and a mother's view of life upon the wicked stage. Includes 29 photographs showing the development of a stage career, and comes with a CD of the son in question singing eight of his own compositions.

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by Hazel K Bell
Kay Macaulife: Women Take the Stage
Methuen Drama:

Details of the career of an actress and playwright, with the Women's Institute in Sussex during and after World War II, with Bognor Regis Repertory Company, and in Wimbledon, including film and television appearances and with Townswomen's Guilds. Gives examples of her writing, including the opening speeches of her comic sketch, "Full Steam Ahead", and her poem addressed to wartime and post-war all-women drama groups, "Lady, be a Man!", synopses of her plays, and 14 photographs in character and in performance.

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