Letters: Murray Melvin obituary by Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Philippa Buss

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. …

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