The Archive · 1939

A Piccadilly Ghost

'Just off Piccadilly' a short ghost play. that has been produced in Johannesburg—by the Bantu Players and in Australia, Canada, and China, will be heard by listeners to Daventry today. At the time of its deast, James Parish, the actor-itis who wrote it, expects to be in New York, helping with the production of his London success, Dis-actor—he is now concerned mostly with writing—Parish has played in various parts of the Empire, touring South Africa in 1928-1929. Recalling kis most exciting experience, Parish soy: 'I must surely be the only dramatist who has ridden on a "wall of death." As an experiment, I rode a motor-cycle around one of those fragile, cup-shaped, wooden structures; I had a bad crash, wrote about the experience for an evening newspaper—and after I'd paid the doctor's expenses, I was just £5 in pocket"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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