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Directors Notes

I recall my father saying that he never realised how his own sense of humour had changed until he saw “Charley’s Aunt” for the second time.

The first occasion was in London in the early 1920’s and the second at the Princes Theatre, Bradford with Harry Hanson’s Court Players about 1950.

In London, he had scarcely been able to control his hysteria, whilst in Bradford he spent most of the evening wondering what on earth it was that he had once found so funny.

Of course, this could have been a comment on the Princes Theatre production, in which event my case is not proven. What I am really trying to say is that the humour in “The Noble Spaniard” for me, at any rate, has stood the test of time and we hope it will have done so for you.

We seek only to entertain and amuse, and we hope you will enjoy this early Maugham in the way, I am sure, he intended it should be enjoyed.

We make no apologies to him or to you for any additions, omissions, or alterations in his translation. Copyright holders please ignore!

In the words of your Chairman “Hail, Smiling Maugham !”