... RALPH RICHARDSON ON JUVENILE DRAMA One day Ralph Richardson was approached in his club by Alan Keen, the antiquarian bookseller, and invited to become a director of a company being formed to save Pollocks, the Hoxton toy theatre shop, so beautifully immortalised bv Robert Louis Stevenson in Penny Plain, Twopence Colou re d. As Mr. Rich ardson says: The idea attracted me at once. I recalled ...

... SCALA CENTURY FOR GEORGE. On Monday. Theatre '46 (in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain) presented Montagu Slater's new play, the life of a movement, entitled Century for George. Of the fair number of Left plays we have seen, particularly in the last 10 to years, this hi ..i.i;i of the ?>m and th of the 1 :e union i tnent is in 'nportant i 'iw i t. n lulls clearly -?'i ...

... KING'S, HAMMERSMITH ROMEO AND JULIET On Friday last T.R.T. Productions, Ltd.. presented here a new production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The opening of the repertory season directed by Basil Langton at this pleasant theatre was cele brated notably by Renee Asher- son's sensitive and very attrac tive performance as Juliet. No actress capable of playing this moving and lovely part ...

... ST. JAMES'S DEAR RUTH On Thursday last Gilbert Miller. by arrangement with Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart, presented a new comedy by Norman Krasna, entitled Dear Ruth. Ruth, a lively sort of girl, is about to marry her dull bank executive boy-fritnd. Albert, when Lootenant William Seawright. just back from Italy, rushes into her Long Island home and not only greets Ruth and her family ...

... THE PICCADILLY A MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE On February 27 H. M. Tennent. Ltd. presented here the play adapted by John Perry from the novel of Francis Brett Young. A Man About the House. Merits and delects curiously mingle in this play about an Italian major-domo who marries his English employer and tries to murder her. But on the whole the merits outweigh the defects, and the plav takes a fairly ...

... INTERVAL CLUB TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY PARTY The 20th birthday of the Interval Club, held at 23. Dean-street on March 1, drew many members and friends together. Despite many applications regrettably not conceded, over 100 guests were accommodated at lunch under the presidency of Bishop Myers, who proposed the loyal toast Father Francis Devas. S.J.. D.S.O.. pro posed Club members who had served in ...

... BRITISH EQUITY ACCOMMODATION AND SOME NEW PLANS With Bessie Love presiding the Equity Members' meeting on Friday last discussed the question of accommodation in various provincial towns. The general secretary (Llewellyn Reesl stated that a plan for provincial theatrical hostels had fallen through. The idea was brought forward of pro vincial theatrical clubs, in associa tion with the local ...

... THE PICCADILLY PORTRAIT IN BLACK On Thursday last H. M. Tennent, Ltd., presented here the play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Portrait in Black. For some of us the evening was a little reminiscent of those pre war days when Gladys Cooper was delighting London audiences in society plays. There is at least a superficial resemblance between the Lady in Black in this American murder-drama and the ...

... THE Q PRIDE AND PREJUDICE On Tuesday was presented here a revival of Helen Jerome's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Pride and Prejudice. As the book is the subject for this year's London University Matriculation special interest in this revival is beins shown by students, and a special matinee for schools is being arranged. The long cast includes several notable pieces of acting. The ...

... REPERTORY PLAYERS THE ARBITRATION On Sunday last, at the New, the Repertory Players presented a fragmentary comedy of Menander, translated and completed by Gilbert Murray, entitled The Arbitration. Gilbert Murray has translated Menander's fragmentary comedy, The Arbitration. into delight fully casual dialogue, containing such homely phrases as Sez you and He's dotty. Having en joyed ...

... AT WIMBLEDON REDEMPTION Donald Wolfit hat had a great reception this week at Wimble don, where he is presenting Tol stoy's Redemption. fully noticed in Thi; Stagf. on its production last month at the Lyceum. Sheffield. Mr. Wolflt continues to give a brilliant interpretation of the dis- I solute yet honest husband, and j Rosalind Iden's acting as the wife tern between husband and lover is ...

... AS YOU LIKE IT On Friday last at the Memorial, Stratford-on-Avon, was presented, as the fifth production of the Festival, a revival of Shakespeare's. As You Like It. The producer. Herbert M. Prentice, gives smooth direction, but the more boisterous elements of this firmly popular comedy are not stressed, and the whirling words that fill the pastoral scenes with a spate of gaiety seem rather ...