... MILLIONAIRE'S ROW AT ITS LIVELIEST ONE must have had to feel one hundred per cent fighting fit to enjoy making a call on the real Anthony J. Drexel Biddle at his Philadelphia home some forty years ago. There were pet crocodiles slithering alarmingly about ...

... Cell 2455, Death Row Plaza Grim case history of a gangster's progress, from juvenile delinquency to San Quentin, based on the autobiography of Caryl Chess man, who has so far eluded the gas chamber on various technicalities. ...

... IVY Rowe RANDOLPH STUDIO THIS off-Broadway transfer tells the tale of an all-Virginian heroine, living and loving in that state during the earlier part of the twentieth century. This one-woman show features the talents of Barbara Bates Smith, who colluded ...

... of Porgy in 1929. The coloured players brought then to the stage of His Majesty's all the heat, light and sound of Catfish Row, the Negro tenement section of the Charleston waterfront. To-day another Negro cast, all-singing, all-acting, and one might ...

... twisting his neck or relying on the goodwill of somebody in front. In one famous theatre, from certain seats in the second row of the right-hand side of the dress circle (a circle sharply curved), you see little of the right-hand side of the stage. Moreover ...

... members exploit it to the full. Quite a sinister figure is Lewis Rowe as Charles Norbury, who combines the writing of best-selling children's books with mental cruelty to his wife. Rowe, a recent arrival from New Zealand, will make audiences hate him ...

... perhaps, not so obvious the rows of plants should run north and south, in order to obtain even illumination as the sun moves from east to west. Rows running east and west result in most fruits appearing on the south side of the rows, thus leading to crowding ...

... turns some neat somersaults, but can't match the looks of utter bewilderment Mr. Noble achieved. Audience: Being a matinee, row upon row of elderly ladies and the occasional gentleman, adoring every minute. With out doubt a gratifying audience, to which Brian ...

... production at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch may have monstrated one good reason. This is now the third premiere in a row in which the Queen's has demonstrated that someone there seems not to know when to turn down a script as incomplete. Kill is ...

... designed by Matthew Beacham, who makes effec tive use of the open stage. Julie Watterston Top row: BARRIE GOSNEY. NICK WILTON. JOHN PENNINGTON and MAYA WOOLFE Bottom row: ROSEMARY WILLIAMS, MARK BUFFERY and MARCIA KING ...

... Cabaret CHESTER FOR HIS first Autumn Season at Chester Gateway, artistic director Peter Rowe pulls no punches with his splendid, bold production of the hit musical Cabaret, the book by Joe Masteroff based on the play I Am A Camera. Running in repertoire ...

... For a dramatist of Priestley's fine quality this is thin. There are pleasant decorations but not much to decorate. Frances Rowe, Clive Morton, Wendy Craig (an alertly- managed performance by a newcomer), and Raymond Francis (in the best-written part) ...