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SKETCH DATE-BOOK

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1211 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

FIFTY YEARS OF FILMS

... beginning to wear off, and the music-hall proprietors were seriously using the bioscope as a chaser to clear audiences out of the theatre, when a picture came along that revived public interest in the new toy, and set the whole course of the cinema for the next ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1413 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

at the Circus: The Mills Brothers Once More

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 798 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

PEER GYNT IS PRESENTED AT THE OXFORD PLAYHOUSE

... -/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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Fifty Fashionable Years

... and circumstance of the new century. A great deal of freshly-acquired wealth made a frank dis play in social life, at the theatre, Court balls and the races. Women demanded tiaras, lorgnettes and ians studded with jewels. JLhere was lavish embroidery, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Other

... for 2-3 weeks. At Sadler's Wells ballet per formances are given at every Saturday matinee. ■sf OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS Empire Theatre, Leicester Square an entirely new screen-plus-stage pro gramme, consisting of the Royal Command film The Forsyte Saga, and ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1316 | Page: 44 | Tags: Other 

PARIS PLAYWRIGHT

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

HOW TO BRING UP THE FAMILY

... FAMILY Herald Reporter DIRECTOR of the Institute of Child Health at London University, Professor Alan Aird Moncrieff, told a theatre-full of child experts at King's College, London, yesterday that lack of sleep helps to make child criminals. - I put. lack ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Live Letters

... THE OLD CODGERS . . . . Those Were the Days . . . . DL NCAN LAMB, of South-West London, writes: AN ardent theatre-goer, in my opinion the theatres and music halls of today have everything. But you should be a little mouse in our house and hear what ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 784 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SHARE MARKET

... + - /11 A Ord. (5/-) .. 2/6 „ 51% Ist Pref. .. 7/3 „ 31% Deis). .. £634 +lO /- 1 General Theatres Prefd. (6/8) 8/- + -/6 I „ 34% Debts. . £63 Granada Theatres Ist Pref. 13/9 Humphries, G., Co. (5/-) 25/- }Cinemas Ord. (5/-) .. 7/- - -/3 Tuseaud's (1/-) ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

A Review of the Week's Most Outstanding Campaigns

... film. A Tokyo parade—burlesque of a The Beating Heart Japanese prison camp roll-call— NOVELTY item also apwas held in the theatre vestibule. A peered in G. Williams' comprehensive canipaign for GREETINGS T the following managers who been enrallal into ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

r 1, S. Wales Stand igainst !figher Rentals t RESOLUTION strongly protesting against an: increase in hire was ..

... another delegate, said that be had raised the point, but had been overruled, that where any newsreel was distributed Io two theatres it should be 5 per cent. on each. The question had also been raised as to their right to ;cancel newsreels. W. BERRIM N ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 23 | Tags: none