Diana Calderwood

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.

A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.

An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children.

The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.