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3 HURT IN PANTO EXPLOSION

... the trap-doors and filling the stage with dense smoke. The safety curtain was lowered and the performance. in the Connaught Theatre. Worthing, was abandoned. Two stagehands and one of the east were injured. The stage-hand, Mark of Grand-avenue, Worthinv ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Long Arm

... minutes of anyone's time. Even as a child, Jessamine Pope dreamt of seeing her name in lights above the portal of a London theatre Mr. Hither rapped impatiently on the boardroom table. Need we hear any more? he enquired. Marcus Green shook his head. don't ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3363 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR FILM OF THE MONTH

... Hollywood has produced nothing outstanding. Italy provides the PIC'S FILM OF THE MONTH. It is BICYCLE THIEVES (Curzon Theatre) and our only regret is that not even the distributors are really sure how many film fans outside of London will have an ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

OPERA BALLET COVENT DARDEN. OPERA. 'rues at 7. Plo9lle. with Fisher. Franklin. Hannosson. Schwarskopf. WlMenu ..

... WELLS. Tar. 1672. Opera è Batt. Ergs. 7 Mat. Wed Sat.. 2.39 Mon.. Giovanni. Tue Gay. est P. Wed.. (Mat.). MOM. 4111931. Tom THEATRES ADELPI4I. Tem. 7611 7.39. Tues., Sat.. 230 Jack BUCHANAN in SASYLE IN THE AIR. Irene M.,1. Coral BROWNS. AMBASSADORS. in ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 309 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THOSE GAIETY GIRLS

... £100 notes and a silver cigarette case inscribed From Box J. Seventy-one times. That, says W. Macqueen-Pope in Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment (W. H. Allen, 20s.), was S how playgoers showed their appreciation s then. The Gaiety, old and new, was great ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

STOLL. Hal 3703. II & SM. Tom Arnold's ICE VOGUES. Cecilia Colledre Richard Hearne. Ted hay. A delectable feast ..

... Evans. Felix Aylmer. Frank Pettingen in DAIMON LALIREOLA. A New In Aims. TICKET, an theatres Cecil Roy. Ltd.. 74, OM Drempteet-road. W 1 Ken. 0121. VOMITS for all theatres at Keith Frown & Ltd HD. New Ikest4t.._ W.l. & Branches. Tel Reg MN On lines). YOU ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 261 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A NEW YEAR PROBLEM

... A NEW YEAR PROBLEM WLupino Lane revive the glories of the Gaiety Theatre when. early in the New Year. he hopes to reopen a famous playhouse closed down by the London County Council before the war to make room for a circular roundabout in the Strand? That ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I Face Abdicationo • —As A Wife

... I had been accustomed to meeting titled, famous, and influential people who came to compliment me on a performance at the theatre, or to Invite me to their parties because I was a leading operatic singer and had appeared for U.F.A. Films. None the less ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Donat's Film Bubbles With Humour

... being a son of Lancashire, Manchester-born and trained for the stage in that city, with subsequent successes in the repertory theatre of Liverpool. I liked the sequence in which the amorous trollop. Janev Jenkins, cornering this g:oomily reluctant Romeo on ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 967 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TRAINER'S WIFE LIVED

... Although always in pain, she never complained. The panto went with a bang rED RIDING HOOD was in full swing at the Connaught Theatre, WORTHING, last night when a boiler under the stage exploded. The Wolf (Al Gillyan) and two stage hands were hit, and ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1320 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

By RALPH CHAMPION

... anaesthetics. Electric Knife BRILLIANT new inventions like the electric knife for brain surgery simplify work in the operating theatre. Surgeqns can give new sight-to the blind by grafting corneas from the dead. Blue babies, ih a recently perfected technique ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 798 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CLUES ACROSS

... Crib can he described as 5. Often the subject of a promise Foolish person 10. Frets a this may (Pe better than nothing 12. A theatre. cinema and tele%Won are examples of where one can pee and hear - I't. Associated with quills 14. Disturbanees caused by these ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none