... £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 ...

... 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 ...

... Third visits are admittedly the most profitable. About second scrutinies there is some of the chill of second nights in the theatre; the first enchantment dulled, they show up every shortcoming. So a second visit to Bicycle Thieves (Curzon) could not fairly ...

... Hazell) makes n ah of Thomas the cat, who himself spares a ca Jul caress for the feckless Idle Jack (IS at Jacl ey) at Princes Theatre [Illustration: b.v Turn Til ...

... with tht necessary authority. His book is well documented Theatre Tapestry (Jarrolds. 21s.) is a more ambitious undertaking, by Mr. Henry Gibbs, and is in' some sort a panorama of the British theatre from the- year a.d. 45 to our present year of grace. P ...

... announcers and false {Continued opposite The Sketch annual awards for the most outstanding achievements in literature, the theatre, cinema, radio, and television were televised at a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel. Carol Reed, holding his award made to him ...

... good Press was thus assured. The situa tion was said to be amusing, the dialogue allowed to be as funny as any heard in the theatre since Wilde, and the ladies were pronounced disgusting, vulgar and an insult to British womanhood. What more could a rising ...

... THE THEATRE J. C. Trewin CASTLE IN THE AIR. It is also a castle in Scotland-- name of Locharne-- and, so we gather, a grim sight externally, in the prickliest Scottish Baronial. Inside, thanks to the setting by Michael Weight, it could hardly be more ...

... to the general playgoer was no more than that of an exuberant young poet who wrote for dramatic festivals and for little theatres. His plays were liked by actors but believed by few to be made of West End stuff. Mr. John Gielgud happened, luckily, to ...

... THE THEATRE VENUS OBSERVED. I like to talk, says someone in Christopher Fry's new verse fantasy at the St. James's, and Fry himself might say the same thing. He likes to talk, and we like to hear him, for no one in our theatre can talk better in his ...

... audience, but it went down fine with me, too, and I have rarely seen so many sunny faces among the press-boys as they left the theatre, joyously chanting the film's most preposterous lines. Preposterous is the word for Tarzan, but what engaging nonsense it ...

... midst of which, wearing brown fustian rompers, is Mr. Malleson, a miser warranted to make a cat laugh. As a piece of comic theatre it will, I expect, be as popular as anything that the Old Vic has done this season. The view has been taken that it is beneath ...