The Magistrate (play)
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The Magistrate is a farce by English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. It concerns a respectable magistrate who finds himself caught up in scandalous events that threaten to disgrace him.
Theatre poster from a performance at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in 1886
The magistrate arrives at his court: photograph of the 1917 musical version, called The Boy.
Alastair Sim
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Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
Sim as the Laird in Geordie, 1955
With John Mills and Yvonne Mitchell in the comedy-thriller Escapade, 1955
As Hawkins, the assassin, in The Green Man, 1956
Memorial stone near Sim's birthplace, Lothian Road, Edinburgh