... to the success of the perform ance are John Ruddling, Harold Clayton, Frith Banbury, Blake Gifford, Aubrey Denning, Eric Christmas, and Richard Curnock. The production is unpretentious, and the skilful use of curtains throughout is very commendable. The ...

... Doaewell Frank Petley Inspector Katchem Clement Hamelin Keeper of Private Zoo Eugene Leahy Truly is this piece one of those Christmas plays that arc calculated to appeal to old and young ahke, and happy must lie the child of any age who is seeing it for the ...

... Peter Pan; or the Boy Who j Wouldn t Grow Up, is again very i happily housed at the Palladium. where it started a season of Christmas holiday-season matinees on Monday afternoon under th ...

... our eyes. They must be among the busiest men in London. In brief, Messrs. Lan deau and Rubens's contribution to the pre-Christmas brightness 6f London speeds along from be ginning to end, and blends col our, tune, and humour in one of the happiest and ...

... fcer debted to Italia Conti praiseworthy decision cnd Where the Rainbow tic this Christmas. 1* Lendry fairy-tale with all it twenty- and charm opened i s |>st ninth Christmas season not Friday afternoon; and k3. surprising if the tru j [,e- sons that lie ...

... played by Gabriel Ruiz de Galarreta, who does valuable work throughout the evening. The concluding item on the pro gramme, Christmas Eve in Jerez,*' sees the three dancers together in a characteristic gypsy dance, providing a fitting finale to a most pleasing ...

... TWO BOUQUETS saturday, December 59 was revived 23, here, Eleanor and Herber Farjeon's comedy, The Two Bouquets. In the Christmas ment is Presenting attraction the manage its most tious muscal am production for some time, and judging by the .ce rtl ...

... about twenty authors and composers are given as respon sible for the words and music. Among the matters satirised are a Christmas pantomime, the (hanging ideals of Public School boys, the female figure of to-day as compared with its more-gener ous curves ...

... DALY'S. CHARLEY'S AUNT. Once again the Old Lady from Brazil is found still running in the West End at Christmas, this time at Daly's, where Charley's Aunt began a scries of twice daily performances on Saturday afternoon, December 22. Brandon Thomas's ...

... the foliage of the family tree of the house of Champblay. One gathers that the I Champblays are a pretty bad lot when, one Christmas Eve old Sir Frederic, the eighteenth-century baronet, steps out of his picture- frame in the dining hall at Champ blay Towers ...

... THE ROYALTY. TOAD OF TOAD HALL We have this Christmas another revival of Toad of Toad Hall, A. A. Milne's charming fantasy, with story taken from Kenneth Grahame's book The Wind in the Willows, and with Harold Fraser-Simson's charming and gracefully ...

... Eurvdice. A pretty and semi-tragic drama for toys coming to life at the witching hour of night is stvled 44 Love Under the Christmas Tree. There are some twenty versatile per formers, all bearing Russian names, in the band of 44 merry artists directed so ...