... TELEVISION Music at Night. by J. B. Priestley, will be produced by Michael MacOwan and Dennis Vance on March 25. The author will give an inlroductory talk and may also talk at intervals during the play Among those taking part will be Abraham Sofaer, Jean Cadell. Rachel Gurney. Hugh Burden. Edward Chapman and Harcourt Williams. Dial 'M' for Murder Elizabeth Sellars. Emrys Jones and ...

... TELEVISION B. C. Hilliam (Flotsam) and Tom Webster will join forces on May 12 in a programme called Music While He Works. Flotsam, of course, will provide the music, and Tom Webster will draw sketches to match the lyrics. martine Claim Bloom and Denholm Elliott will play the leading parts in Marline, the play by Jean-Jacques Bernard, which will be directed by Kenneth Tynan and produced by ...

... Barbara Jefford, Donald Eccles and Michael Aldridge are to play the leading parts in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. the West Region's first contribution to television drama, which is being produced at the Royal. Bristol, on August 19. The play, based on Thomas Hardy's novel, by Ronald Gow, will be produced by Owen Reed, who has already produced it three limes for sound radio. It is being ...

... RICHARD AFTON will present a Coronation Music Hall on the Saturday preceding the Coronation from the stage of the Shepherd's Bush Empire, on May 30. It will be televised from JO p.m. tiU 12 midnight. All the artists on the bill have performed before Royalty, either at the Palladium or in Command Shows at Windsor. There will bo two comperes, Terry-Thomas and Ted Ray. The exceptionally big bill ...

... EVENSONG Donald Gage Robert Brown Pauline Lacey Betty McDowall Irela Mar> EHis Station Master Neville Brook John William Driver Trernlowe Doris Rogers Arthur Kober Keneth Kent Baba Letile Marion Sanders Rosenberg Phil.p Leaver Dr. Andrew Campbell. George Skillan Prince Theodore .Walter Hudd Nurse Phillips Barbara Leake Dr. Stalyx John Vere Directed bv Barbara Burnham. Last Sunday's ...

... TV BECOMES INTELLIGENT 'The Liberators' Has Something To Say THE LIBERATORS, the first of a cycle of four plays entitled The Promised Years, written especially for television by lain MaoCormick, is a thoughtful, human, competently written piece of work, basically concerned with a conflict between conscience and the expediency of war. The setting is an Italian farm house in 1945. The C.O ...

... BRISTOL OLD VIC New Season Opens THIS was the first production by the new company's new resident director, John Moody, and its success augurs well for what is to come later in the season. The Road to Ruin, Thomas Hglcroft's moralising comedy, which Revival of the plav by Thomas Holcrot't. Presented by the Bristol Old Vic Company at the Royal. Bristol, on August 30. Sellings and costumcs by ...

... 'Simon and Laura' at Manchester SOONER or later somebody was bound to write a play about the private lives of one of the well-known radio families whose daily studio adventures are followed so closely by the millions. In Simon and Laura Alan Melville has done just that, except Play by Alan Melville. Presented by H. M. Tennent. Ltd.. at the Opera House. Manchester, on August 30. Setting by ...

... In celebration of the 100th performance of The Duenna, with music by Julian Slade. at the Westminster, the management. Ralph Birch Productions, had is their guests last Friday Mrs. Gerald Legge. Lady Edith Foxwell, Princess Yuhara. Lord Ednam, Major Ivan Foxwell, Michael Denison. Dulcic Gray, Ursula Jeans, Dcnholm Elliott and the Spanish Ambassador, who was guest of honour, as the show has a ...

... 'SATURDAY SHOWTIME' I ICIIARD HEARNE is good I I value for money He made three appearances on commercial TV in four days last week Thursday in a prc-Klnieri Moulin Rouge show from Paris, Satur day in Showtime and Sunday in pantomime. Despite this, his Pastry neer got stale. On Saturday he appeared as Richard Hearne. only to find that the cameraman who was making a mess of his TV picture was Mr ...

... 'MOTHER GOOSE' WHILE a visit to the local pantomime is a number one priority just now in many homes up and down the country, those youngsters whose parents were lenient enough to allow them to stay up and watch Val Parncll's Mother Goose, on ATV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, had an extra helping of the traditional Christmas enlcrtain- ment fare. Television's Mother Goose was a ...

... 'THE TRIUMPHANT' AT.V.'s Theatre Royal presented The Triumphant, by James Parish, on Sunday evening under Dennis Vance's production and John Mitchell's direction. Building up to its dramatic climax, in which two women argue bitterly in defence of their own varied ideas of peace of mind, the play tells of the after effects on a woman acquitted of a murder which she has, in fact, com mitted ...