Subject
alchemy, alchemist, drama, entertainment, function, G. W. Craggs, L. B. McCay, laboratory, Major Norman Brearley, medieval setting, play, stage performance, Vacuum Oil Company, WA, Western Australia Y.A.L. Hall
Description
This newspaper article from the Sunday Times reports on a function hosted by the Vacuum Oil Company at the Y.A.L. Hall on 1 June 1932. In addition to an address Major Norman Brearley, the managing director of W.A. Airways, the programme for the evening featured a well-received one-act play written by Mr L. B. McCay and produced by one of the Company’s automotive staff, Mr G. W. Craggs. Although no further details about the play are provided, the setting is described as ‘the subterranean laboratory of medieval alchemists’.