by Mark Murton

Directed by: Peter Graham Scott

Synopsis: Young and attractive Jennie Jones (Janet Munro) is desperate to escape her deadly dull existence in an economically depressed former mining town in Wales. She makes it to the bright lights of London but her dreams of a glamorous life aren’t matched by reality.

Kitty Cameos: Visiting her elderly aunts Louise (Mary Merrall) and Sarah (May Hallatt) in Cardiff, Jennie is horrified to discover that her father wants her to move in with them and act as their companion and caregiver. As the women break the news to Jennie a black cat makes its way along the mantelpiece.

Reaching the end of the mantelpiece, the cat jumps down behind Jennie with a poor cat screech which causes her to run from the room and out of the house.

Later, finding herself alone in London and unable and unwilling to return home she befriends a kindly barman, Bob Williams (John Stride), who moves her into his flat. At the end of the month he goes to his landlady, Mrs. Jessop (Thor Hird), to pay the rent and finds her sitting up in bed eating a bowl of cereal with her ginger tabby in close attendance.

She quickly takes the rent money and locks it in a metal cash box she keeps by the bed.

Seeing an opportunity for extra cash, she suggests he and “the little miss” might like to rent another room in the house which has just been vacated and is bigger than their current one as well as having a double bed rather than the single one in their current room. The cat, meanwhile, is eyeing the bowl of cereal. Bob tells Mrs. Jessop he’ll think about her offer and departs.

Final Mewsings: Cats will tolerate cornflakes for a little taste of milk.

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