"Lock Up Your Daughters" - the advice is good though it has never worked. The pages of literature are littered with locked-up daughters, yet amorous adventure has thrived as long as love - and human ingenuity - has laughed at locksmiths.
The musical Version by Sir Bernard Miles is all good, bawdy fun and Walmsley Operatic Society's production of the show, which is to be seen all this week except for Thursday evening is a creditable effort.
The not-so-innocent-as-all-that Hilaret, admirably played by Sue Daley, schemes her way through the intrigues with a confidence that promises her future husband, Constant, played by Mike Taylor, a few uneasy evenings when she is supposed to be at the Women's Institute.
But the two lovers endure all vicissitudes until all the intrigues are resolved and the infamous Squeezum, played with suitable villainy by Alec Greaves, is brought to justice, helped by his wife, played with bawdy gusto by Sylvia Fishwick.
