... MODERN-DRESS SHAKESPEARE Paul Rogers at Pandarus, Rosemary Harris as Cressida and John Neville as Troilus in Tyrone Guthrie's Edwardian production of Troilus and Cressida at the Old Vic ...

... Madeleine Renaud and Jean Desailly in Occupe-Toi d'Amélie, the Georges Feydeau farce which is to be staged at the Palace on November 16 as part of the Barrault-Renaud season. The Queen is to attend a performance of this play on December 5. ...

... 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. ...

... Peggy Mount, star of th show, being toasted by Falkland Cary, Cyril Smith and Philip King at the party at th Strand to celebrate the 500th performance of Sailor, Beware!, of which Mr. King and Dr. Cary are joint-authors ...

... Tallulah Bankhead discusses a point with Tennessee Williams during a rehearsal of A streetcar Named Desire, which it to be revived at the New York City Contre on February 15, when Miss Bankhead will play Blanche du Bois, the part created in London by Vivien Leigh ...

... We've retired from the business. Now we do nothing but enter quiz contest! on commercial TV ...

... Lois Smith, who made her London debut last night at the Arts in The Young and Beautiful, playing the part she created in America ...

... Carter on August 30. June plays the part of a garage mechanic and Denis the composer-son of a car manufacturer ...

... show on Sunday (Reviewed Page 12) ...

... One of the highlights of The Big Splash, the spectacular George Baines aquas how at Derby Baths, Blackpool. ...

... Ivor Novello't King's Rhapsody has been given a spectacular production at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre this year, with a ballet on a glass raft as one of the highlights. ...

... SCROOGE AND TINY TIM Frank Middlemass and Steven Longworth in Oldham Repertory's ambitious new dramatisation of A Christinas Carol. ...