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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 15.

"Badger's Green."

"Badger's Green."

On Friday night the Dramatic Club read a play by Sherrif which told how the sleepy village of Badger's Green was threatened by the onslaught of civilisation, and how the fine old game of cricket finally came to the aid of rural England.

Mr. Wild interpreted the difficult part of the dreamy old doctor with a fine restraint; Mr. Christensen made Mr. Twigg just the pathetic little figure he was meant to be, while Mr. McGhie had the part of a testy old major. These three schemed to save the village from a speculator, Mr. Davidson.

One day, in a moment of crisis in a cricket match against the neighbouring village, Mr. Davidson was pressed into service: once he had played a real game on the village green, his desire for reform dies away. If the English countryside was to be despoiled, it must be by other hands.

Miss D. Grainger gave a sympathetic performance as the secretary of the hard fisted business man. Breathing the scent of green grass, sunshine and open air, the play was a delightful interlude in the drab life of the spectator.