... DANCE, MIME AND PANTOMIME A programme of dance, mime and pantomime was given on January 6 at the Watergate by Charles Antonetti of Le Groupe de Recherches Dramatiques de Paris and his colleagues. Notable for his extremely effective mime work. M. Antonetti gave a fine display exercising complete muscle con trol. His repertory, which gave him plenty of opportunity to put his sense of comedy ...

... GENERAL ELECTION OFFICIAL ADVICE ON VOTING In view of the early General Elec tion, members of the profession who are on tour will find it difficult, or in some cases impossible, to return to their constituencies to vote in person on polling day. The new electoral law makes it possible for any voter to vote by post who can show to the satisfaction of the elec toral registration officer, the ...

... WYNDHAM'S WATCH THE WALL, MY DARLING On January 8 the Repertory Players presented a play by David Raven entitled Watch the Wall. My Darling. The extraordinary title of this play is taken from the celebrated ballad, which tells of ponies bring ing brandy for the parson and tobacco for the clerk, and advises the listener to turn a blind eye or watch the wall as the smugglers go by. The ...

... NEW LINDSEY NEW ENGLAND NIGHT On January 10 the New Lindsey Theatre Club, in association with E/ckiel David (for Act Drop Theatre Productions. Ltd.), presented the world premiere of a play by Frederic Lansing Day and Mary Frost. New England Night. Here we have yet again the American way of life--the crude savagery of the backwoods in the 1930s, a pungent and not always convincing mixture of ...

... THP WATERGATE TABU IS THE HOUSE On January 4, a dramatised reading under the direction of Peter Symcox of Denis Faulkner Horne's play Tabu Is The House, produced at Oxford in 1948 under the title A King Will Die, was given at the Watergate, Buckingham-street. Pioneering in any of the arts should always be encour aged, and full credit must be given to Mr. Home for the bold and direct ...

... THE QUESTORS CHRISTMAS IN THE MARKET PLACE On January 7, at their theatre at Mattocks-lane, Ealing, the Questors presented a play by Henri Gheon, translated by Eric Crozier, entitled Christmas in the Market Place. By more than a happy coinci dence the Questors managed to select a charming play for (heir Christmas season, which lends itself admirably to their unquenchable enthusiasm for ...

... THE UNITY BUSTER On January 6 was presented here Ted Willis's play, Buster, first seen in 1941 at the same theatre. Mr. Willis's faithful period piece is, it will be recalled, based upon a true incident of the East End blitz years. A youngster, well set upon the path of juvenile delinquency, finds amid the terrors of black-out and bomb an opportunity to direct the sur plus energy abounding ...

... AT ST. THOMAS'S SEED OF ADAM On January 9 the first production I by professional players of Charles Wilhamss Seed of Adam was given at the Church of St. Thomas, Regent-street. Leaving the conventional lines on which Nativity plays usually run. Seed of Adam offers an entirely new version of the simple yet paradoxically mysterious story of the first Christmas. Taking a symbolic view of ...

... THE EMBASSY PARTY MANNERS On January 17, Envoy Productions, Ltd., in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, and under the direction of Anthony Hawtrey, presented here the comedy by Val Gielgud, entitled Party Manners. I hope this will have shown you that we still live in a country in which it is possible for us to be funny about politicians without being rude, said the ...

... FROM BR0ADSTAIRS DICKENS AND FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN The following suggestion has been sent by Frederick B. Salt, chairman of the Broadstairs and St. Peter's Urban District Council, to the secre tary of the Festival of Britain, 1951 I anticipate that one of the build ings which will be erected on the South Bank of the Thames in con nection with the Festival of Britain, will be a theatre, and I ...

... AT NORWICH SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL On January 14 at the Maddermarket the Maddermarket theatre Trust, Ltd., presented the Norwich Players in a revival of Sheridan's The School for Scandal. There is special interest in this first production here by Lionel Dunn, who is directing the Players in view of the toriheoming departure of Nugent Monck on a lecture tour in the West Indies. Right nobly ...

... HORACE COLLINS THANKS ON RETIREMENT In the current number of The Theatre Industry, the monthly magazine of which he will continue to be editor, Horace Collins expresses his gratitude for the friendly messages and donation offered to him on his retirement from the secretaryship of the Society of West fcnd Managers ana the Theatrical Managers' Associa tion. I am much moved he writes, by ...