In the early 1950s Murray Melvin acted with the Hampstead Drama Group, north London. My parents, Constance and George Hawkins, did too, and George was its "props maker". A child at the time, I recall Murray as indeed a lovely man. The HDG rehearsed its mostly one-act plays in Burgh House, and was run by Jess Harrison, a forthright, leftwing Scot from Shetland and then Glasgow, and one of my mother's closest friends. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM on May 16, 2023