THE Ingrow Parish Church pantomime in 1956 was Dick Whittington, which also included this nautical sequence.
Keith Marsden, Geoffrey Rundle and Elsie Greenwell are identifiable in the middle row, while a rather bear-like cat kneels at the front.
The cast that year was notable for the inclusion, as the Emperor of Morocco, of Keith Marsden’s father, Ernest, a doyen of the Keighley amateur stage.
Ernest Marsden had joined the Keighley Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society in 1919, taking part in that year’s offering, The Geisha.
At the time of his death aged 72 in 1960, he had been involved for 55 years in acting and producing with a variety of groups, including plays at the Keighley Boys’ Grammar School, where he was a geography master.
During the course of his career, the National Operatic and Dramatic Association presented him with five long-service bars, and he was guest of honour at one of their annual conferences.
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