... THE QUESTORS CHRISTMAS IN THE MARKET PLACE On January 7, at their theatre at Mattocks-lane, Ealing, the Questors presented a play by Henri Gheon, translated by Eric Crozier, entitled Christmas in the Market Place. By more than a happy coinci dence the Questors managed to select a charming play for (heir Christmas season, which lends itself admirably to their unquenchable enthusiasm for ...

... WYNDHAM'S WATCH THE WALL, MY DARLING On January 8 the Repertory Players presented a play by David Raven entitled Watch the Wall. My Darling. The extraordinary title of this play is taken from the celebrated ballad, which tells of ponies bring ing brandy for the parson and tobacco for the clerk, and advises the listener to turn a blind eye or watch the wall as the smugglers go by. The ...

... NEW LINDSEY NEW ENGLAND NIGHT On January 10 the New Lindsey Theatre Club, in association with E/ckiel David (for Act Drop Theatre Productions. Ltd.), presented the world premiere of a play by Frederic Lansing Day and Mary Frost. New England Night. Here we have yet again the American way of life--the crude savagery of the backwoods in the 1930s, a pungent and not always convincing mixture of ...

... THP WATERGATE TABU IS THE HOUSE On January 4, a dramatised reading under the direction of Peter Symcox of Denis Faulkner Horne's play Tabu Is The House, produced at Oxford in 1948 under the title A King Will Die, was given at the Watergate, Buckingham-street. Pioneering in any of the arts should always be encour aged, and full credit must be given to Mr. Home for the bold and direct ...

... THE UNITY BUSTER On January 6 was presented here Ted Willis's play, Buster, first seen in 1941 at the same theatre. Mr. Willis's faithful period piece is, it will be recalled, based upon a true incident of the East End blitz years. A youngster, well set upon the path of juvenile delinquency, finds amid the terrors of black-out and bomb an opportunity to direct the sur plus energy abounding ...

... AT ST. THOMAS'S SEED OF ADAM On January 9 the first production I by professional players of Charles Wilhamss Seed of Adam was given at the Church of St. Thomas, Regent-street. Leaving the conventional lines on which Nativity plays usually run. Seed of Adam offers an entirely new version of the simple yet paradoxically mysterious story of the first Christmas. Taking a symbolic view of ...

... DANCE, MIME AND PANTOMIME A programme of dance, mime and pantomime was given on January 6 at the Watergate by Charles Antonetti of Le Groupe de Recherches Dramatiques de Paris and his colleagues. Notable for his extremely effective mime work. M. Antonetti gave a fine display exercising complete muscle con trol. His repertory, which gave him plenty of opportunity to put his sense of comedy ...

... GENERAL ELECTION OFFICIAL ADVICE ON VOTING In view of the early General Elec tion, members of the profession who are on tour will find it difficult, or in some cases impossible, to return to their constituencies to vote in person on polling day. The new electoral law makes it possible for any voter to vote by post who can show to the satisfaction of the elec toral registration officer, the ...

... THE TORCH L'ART DU TROUBADOUR EN 1950 On January 16. William Wordsworth presented Jean Mercure in a programme of songs, ballads, and other pieces, given in the form of recitation with action, to a piano forte accompaniment. It is, says the programme, an attempt to revive without the use of props or tumes the tradition of the trouba dours of the Middle Ages, but with texts of contemporary ...

... AT WIMBLEDON THEATRE GUILD REVIVES ROBERT'S WIFE The presentation of St. John Eryine's Robert's Wife by the Wimbledon Theatre Guild at the Town Hall on January 9 would do credit to any company in any theatre. But the poor attendance left the impression that the burgesses of Wimbledon do not sufficiently appreciate the efforts of those enthu siastic and unpaid performers. The already ...

... AT HARROGATE GRAND OPERA HOUSE SEES ITS JUBILEE The fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Opera House, Harrogate, occurred on Friday last, January 13. It has been commemorated by the White Rose Players, who have opened their eighteenth year with Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In a playbill of January I 13, 1 900, sent by George R. Turner, I general manager, the grand open ing ...

... THF HAYMARKET THE HEIRESS On January 16, Tennent Productions, Limited, in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, presented a recast version of The Heiress, the play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz suggested by the novel, Washington Square, by Henry James. Even though Wendy Hiller created the title-rflle of The Heiress on Broadway, it was no easy task to take over the part at the ...