Opera House. Cheltenham. Anthony Knowles (For Buckstone Productions) Presents a Season of Plays: March 26th for One Week Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers. April 2nd for One Week the Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton. [Original Broadside]

Gloucester: Ford & Branch, LTD, c1945. Undetermined. fine. 14.25" X 10" (36 X 25.5 cm). Original boardside with black and red text and illustration. Two small holes and string hanger at top. Slight crease to top else is clean and bright. fine Broadside from an English Opera House advertising two plays. A decorative border encases the title at the top and a dark illustration depicting a stage and packed seats is to the top right. The first play, Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers, is to take place on March 26th for one week (no perfomance Good Friday) and is accompanied by the subtitle "nine victims- and one unknown killer- marooned on a desert island...". The play was first published by Christie in 1939. The book was named after a popular nursery rhyme of the same name. The American edition was "Ten Little Indians". The name was later adapted to the last line of the rhyme "And Then There Were None". "The Happiest Days of Your Life", the second play on the broadside, (by John Dighton and produced by Leslie Phillips) was to take place April 2nd for one week as a special Easter Holiday Attraction. It is described as "A wildly funny farce about a boys' school and a girls' school- on the same premise! The most hilarious evening of your life!".. In 1950 the play was turned into a film by Frank Launder. The broadside also provides details of performances and box office. 1945