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... James Grout as Snout, Anthony Quayle as Bottom, Leo McKern as Quince, Mervyn Blake as Snug, Peter Duguid as Starveling, and Ian Bannen as Flute, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the most popular plays in the repertoire at Stratford-upon-Avon this year ...

... Alan Badel, who will be Men as the first Hamlet for eight years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Other players for the season are Emlyn Williams, Diana Churchill and Margaret Johnston. ...

... Waiting their calls at the Chiswick Empire this week are (I. to r.) Joe Henderson, Kenneth Earie, the May fairs, and Malcolm Vaughan. ...

... JACK H HYLTON ...

... Olga Gwynne, who with Jack Raddiffe and Jimmy Logan, opens in Howard and Wyndham'i Five-Past Eight at the Alhambra, Glasgow, tonight. Her first part was with Richard Tauber in Old Chelsea, since when she has built up a popular following in pantomime and on radio and television ...

... Eve Lister, Diana Churchill, lrne Hilda and Chin Yu, leading ladies of The King and I, The Desperate Hours, Can- Can and The Teahouse ot the August Moon, the four shows with which Williamson Music Ltd. are associated in London, all met for the flrst time last week at a lunch given in their honour at the Savoy ...

... Freda Jackson, who was once a member of the Repertory Company at Northampton, returns on July 25 to play the lead in a new dramatisation, by Phyllis Hartnoll, of The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas ...

... Daphne Anderson as Polly, Bill Owen as Mack the Knife and Georgia Brown an Lory, in a secne from the Bertolt Breeht-Kurt Weill opera, which moves from the Royal Court to the Aldwych on March 21. ...

... Maxwell Shaw and Avis Bunnage in The Good Soldier schweilk'' at the Duke of York's ...

... Vivien Leigh and Ronald Lewis rehearsing for South Sea Bubble, the new Noel Coward comedy whieh openn at the Opera House, Manehester, on Monday next. ...

... Jean, Nikki and Margaret Martin, all from Dundee, three of the precision dancers in Cheers. ...