"Johnny Belinda"

The story of a deaf mute and how she heard through the patience and sign language of the young and kindly village doctor, was the story of "Johnny Belinda", presented by the Southern Comedy Players in Nelson, As Belinda, "The Dummy", Peggy Turvey had a very difficult role, since she did not utter a word until the play ended, and she played it to perfection.

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Black MacDonald (Charles Walker) and Dr Jack (Bill Hargreaves) discuss Belinda's handicap.

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Belinda tries the sign language.

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Belinda comes between her father, Black MacDonald, and the roistering Lockie McCormick.

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MacDonald comes home to find Belinda has not completed the work she was set to do

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Struck dead by lightning, MacDonald is carried into the house to a stricken Belinda