HEIL, CINDERELLA! WITH DIST HED AMATEURS: WILTON HOUSE COMPANY STAGE PANT COMFORT THE TROOPS

... photographs of the WILTON HOUSE COMPANY rehearsing HEIL, CINDERELLA!, the topical pantomime by Cecil bU'S John Sutro, with Rex Whistler scenery, given in aid of the Comforts for the Troops Fund at the Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton, on January 1 V* ^fortunately ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Assistant Blamed

... mention should be made of the musical setting from the works of Bach by Constant Lambert and >. the beautiful costumes by Rex Whistler. In complete contrast was the ever-popular “Les Sylphides” in which Robert Helpmann, supported by Margot Fonteyn. June ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 366 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CUTAWAY COUPLETS

... merely nostalgia. For their new production of the opera Fidelio they are using costumes and scenery designed by the late Rex Whistler in 1937. La Boheme will be given with costumes and scenery from stock. A research student digging into the matter for ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1948
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A SONG IN BALLET

... the Fokine arrangement of this well known work, with its dreamy, exquisite Chopin music, and eerie greygreen setting by Rex Whistler. ...

Published: Tuesday 18 May 1943
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BALLET AT THEATRE ROYAL A crowded audiende gave.an enthttsiastie- come .to the International Ballet when they' ..

... extra. ordinarily-moving . ballet or mime-play has -beeii based: The impressiVe•- -, .settings designed -by the; late. Rex Whistler and.. the' `-brilliant, costumes of William::Chappelli combine to recreate. impressively the cologrf and splendour of the ...

Published: Tuesday 27 March 1945
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NO SIRS. NO LONGO!

... PROGRAMME 1514.1. SUS) p.m., Choral Concert. 74, Discussion on Human Speech. 741. Chamber Music. S-311, In Memoriam: Rex Whistler. 1.46, Chamber Music: Part 2 1-211, Interlude. 1411. New Poems. 14 1 , Renata Borgatti (piano). 1114 S, Interlude. 1141 ...

Published: Monday 03 February 1947
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

[C 0 UNT R Y LIF E - DECE M 8 E R 1 , 19 4 4 } 5.-FIRST-FLOOR

... les, two lions pass{)l,nt, baroque decorative painting inevitably overwhelmed the room to which it was applied, and even Rex Whistler, who alone attained in his short life to an invention and virtuosity corn parable to the baroque artists', raised problems ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1944
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 956 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

1316 COUNTRY LIFE - DECEMBER 26 , 1947 M R . JOHN CHURCHILL was commissioned in 1946 to paint the

... the decorator's scheme requires not to be too insistent yet to be gay and to have some continuity of idea and treatment. Rex Whistler made inimitable use of 18th-century architecture and landscape to provide this continuity, but his enchanting scenes might ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1947
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1018 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT WILTON HOUSE, SALISBURY A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS

... Pamela Gibson, Vivien John, Olga Lynn, David Herbert, Stella Marias Goring, and Donald Masters. Scenery teas painted by Rex Whistler, with Alfred Overton and James iWjtr |fl Bailey as helpers. 3W&51F' r You can spot and name some players bringing in the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

SADLER'S WELLS

... strikes a note fur the whole piece , is supported by Claude an the turbaned father and Farjeon as a rather youthful mother . Rex Whistler is for * and ballet » n a vurinuft setting of rose trees and a bricked wall . An attractive drop curtain is d at the beginning ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO-DAY

... m.! 6.0 p.m.—BBC S.ngers. 7.o—Sound on the air. 7.3o—Chamber music: Hungarian String Quartel. 8.30 Laurence Whistler on Rex Whistler. B.4o—Chamber music (part 2). 9.30-— New Poems. 9.so—Renata Borgattl (pianoc). 10.30—Imaginary conversations. 11.0—Enghsh ...

Published: Monday 03 February 1947
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: none