South Yorkshire Times April 9, 1949

Family Favourites

The Ross Family of Mexborough must have a unique record in South Yorkshire: three members actively associated in management or on the stage of the same society.

For five years Mr. George Ross, 12 Washington Street, has been associated with Mexborough Green Room Club, and has acted as business manager for 16 shows. For six years his only daughter, M r s Mary Cocksedge, has been a playing member of the society, and for five years her husband, 26-years-old Mr. Harold Cocksedge, has been with the Green Room Club, as player, for two years as auditor for the past two years as treasurer. They, too, live in Washington Street. About production time the old is a “little theatre” in itself.

Versatile

Mary Cocksedge is a player of wide experience, and her versatility makes her a valued member of the Green Room Club. She played “Carol” in “Time and the Conways,” “Lydia” in “Yellow Sands,” “Diana in “Other People’s Houses,” “Gratzia in “Death takes a Holiday,” the title role in “Lottie Dundas,” “Dinah” in “Mr Pym passes by,” The Woman in “A Murder Has Been Arranged” – this was a highly effective piece of emotionalism – and “Dulcie” in “Lady from Edinburgh.

Harold Cocksedge, a member of the accounts staff at the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board’s No. 1 Area headquarters at Denaby, has appeared with the Green Room Club five times – twice as a cleric.

His Reverend Simon Peters in “Without the Prince” made him the natural choice for the Reverend Lionel  in the same authors “See how they run,”

In last week’s “Jupiter laughs” he was the effervescent pill Pedler.