... 'ACTRESS' Yvonne Mitchell's book. Actress (Ron (ledge and Kegan Paul. IS/-) is likely to tind considerable readership among young aspirants to the stage. It is not an auto biography, but by tracing her own experiences in the theatre, the author has ...

... ACTRESS Harriette Johns, one of I J7* the two interviews on BBC- 1 TV's Beauty Box programme, which ended last week, has been I signed by Richard Aflon for the new Beauty Box series, opening un July 18. ...

... ACTRESS OF SINCERITY Tribute to Peggy Ash croft PEGGY ASHCROFT worthily joins the series of Theatre World monographs, already begun with Alec Guinness and Edith Evans, and her life-story, unspectacular but inevitably progressive, is ably and not ov ...

... PLAY FOR ACTRESSES THE Hovenden Players presented what they claimed to be the first revival since Garrick's time of Colley Cibber's play, The Refusal, or The Ladies' Philosophy. It was difficult to be sure how much Cibber was to blame for the slodgincss ...

... An Actress's Memoirs TN his new comedy, Diary of a Star, James Liggal has hit upon an intriguing variation of an old theme the elderly actress whose affairs would make good reading in a book, with considerable embar rassment to those mentioned in its ...

... PORTRAIT OF AN ACTRESS YVONNE ARNAUD DISCUSSES COLOMBE ALTHOUGH there has been a tendency with some of the critics to stress the cynical and unhappy aspects of Jean Anouilh's Colombe. produced with rare understanding at the New by Peter Brook. Yvonne ...

... Actress Collapses V/IDA PATERSON. 19-year-old member of the Court Players at Crewe, collapsed shortly before she was due to appear on Tuesday last week. Her part, that of Mary Drew in The Return of Peggy Athcrton. was read by Zoe Barnes at the first ...

... DISILLUSIONED ACTRESS HERE is the story of Sylvia Knight, an actress who has had her day and opposes with great bitterness the intention of her daughter to follow her in the profession. Years of success in the theatre have not brought her happiness, rather ...

... Actresses' Ball Alicia Markova it Chairman and Laurence Olivier President of the 37th Actresses' Ball, to be held at the Savoy Hotel on December 17, in aid of the Ellen Terry Bed at Goeficld Hall, and Christmas toys lite Actors' Orphanage. ...

... VERSATILE ACTRESS A UBURN HAIRED Natasha Parry, 24-year-old actress wife of producer Peter Brook, gels a big break in J. B. Priestley's You Know What People Are, which begins next Wednesday. She will have to portray more than 40 different character rdles ...

... Actress's Novel Case for Treachery, Valeric White's second novel, about an atomic physicist, is to be published by Arthur Barker, Ltd., this month. ...

... Australian Actress's Debut JOINING Oldham Rep in Ver- J diet last week was a young Australian actress. DarJcne John son. It was her ambition to study drama in England but before she left home she attended a casting audition and landed the role of Player ...