... most successful plays now showing is that bewhiskered but undeniably appealing old sob-maker, La Dame aux Gamilias, at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, where it was played so many times by Madame Sarah herself. Innumerable other dramatic comedies have come ...

... Scenery ree Performances The cast of nearly forty lines up for the grand finale of the pantomime which was ploy# Sci School theatre on the Victoria Embankment. Two evening performances and one matinee were given, V gre lyeat success Daisy one of the Ugly ...

... the St. James's. Wyndham's Theatre had only just been built. To the eye of 1950 the West End theatre list of 1900 has unfamiliar names and many strange gaps. Bernard Shaw had not long ceased to be a drama critic-- his last Saturday Review notice appeared ...

... SKETCH DATE-BOOK (Being Our Social Diary.) DEC. I. At long last Philadelphia Story reaches London, at the Duchess Theatre gives Margaret Leighton her first top-starring part. A decorative audience greeted the d6bu t. Left to right Lady Tarbat, Miss Sonya ...

... Mills Brothers Oner More Anthony Cooknian SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER is to try early in the New Year to restore to the St. James's Theatre the kind of theatrical glory that ended in 1914. Until he succeeds-- as we all hope he will succeed-- the Mills Brothers have ...

... -/jL by the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club recently. It was chosen for the Club's release from its twelve-year apprenticeship of cramped conditions in local halls, to the spaciousness of a real theatre. Mr. Tony Richardson (Wadham) was the producer ...

... PARIS PLAYWRIGHT HENRI BERNSTEIN, one of France's leading dramatists, owns his own theatre Le Theatre des Ambassadeurs. He was born in Paris, 1876 has written a vast number of plays beginning in 1900 with Le Marchi. And to mention a few down the fifty ...

... A DRAMATIC MOMENT IN THE HALF-DARKENED LECTURE THEATRE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION Dr. P. Dunsheath points out to his young audience the operation of a machine which registers and measures heart-beats on a cardiagraph, the pulsations being manifested by ...

... AND CLEOPATRA MAKES A HIT ON THE NEW YORK STAGE Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Lili Palmer in Bernard Shaw's play at the National Theatre. At a time when shows have been closing right and left, Caesar and Cleopatra H is proving an immense success. Lili Palmer ...

... ICOVENT GARDEN IN ALDERMAN FITZWARREN'S DAY The opening scene of this year's 44 Dick Whittington pantomime at the Princes Theatre. In the centre is Hy Hazell, who plays the name-part in the old style of the principal boy. The old story is told in twelve ...

... amicably and his blue-grey eyes twinkled And 1 he answered, not or.' Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Bar- rault, at the Marigny Theatre, have again hit the bull's-eye with their revival of the hundred-year-old cloak-and- dagger melodrama, le Bossu, that they ...

... colourful affair at the Palladium. What was it called? Of course Puss in Boots, and it marks the temporary return to the London theatre of that fine Cockney comedian Mr. Tommy Trinder. But where in all this display of the sumptuo'us' was the topical song and ...