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RETURN OF EMMA H0RNETT

... Cyril Smith and Kathleen Harrison in Watch It, Sailor!, the sequel to Sailor Beware! by Philip King and Falkland Cary, which had its first West End performance at the Aldwych last night. ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 36 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: photograph 

Actor-Director

... Actor- Director Tony Beckley, one of the most imaginative and progressive director-actors, has been invited by Hazel Vincent Wallace of Leatherhead Repertory, to direct Two for the See-Saw which opens next Monday. Recently he was responsible for an outstanding production of Bus Stop at Bromley, and was also notable as Bamforth in The Long and the Short and the Tall. ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 60 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: photograph 

'Daughters' Record in Nairobi

... Marguerite Stone and Kenneth Mason in Lock Up Your Daughters at the Donovan Maulc Theatre in Nairobi. This production played to 80 per cent, of capacity for six weeks, has broken all house records, and has been seen by 7,258 people, which is more than have ever been to any live entertainment in Nairobi to date. ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 60 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: photograph 

'Cav' and 'Pag' and 'Butterfly'

... Victoria Elliott, who is to sing Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at Covent Garden on March 21, 23, and 29 and also on April 9. She has already sung the part in English and Welsh, bat on this occasion it will be in Italian. This popular soprano is also singing Madam Butterfly during the current season at Sadler's Wells. ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 63 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: photograph 

Return of the Native

... Making her first professional appearance at Wimbledon Theatre this week is Veronica Baird, as Laura Harvey in You Too Can Have a Body. A native of Wimbledon, she had seven years' amateur experience there. She has just returned from a nine-months' season at St. Andrews, playing such parts as Nora in A Doll's House, Jean Rice in The Entertainer and Judy in Flowering Cherry. ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: photograph 

BEN JONSON AT CITIZENS

... The Citizens', Glasgow, had a brisk and breezy opening to its Spring season with The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. In a virile, swift production by Peter Duguid, Martin Heller's Sir Epicure Mammon and Una MacLean's Dol Common, seen above, are delightful character studies. Excellent work also comes from Ken Wynne as Subtle and Bernard Kay as Face. David Jones has devised an interesting set, and ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: photograph 

THAT GIRL

... Susan Hampshire, who is to appear as the Girl in Follow That Girl, the new Slade-Reynolds musical which opens at the Vaudeville on March 17. ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: photograph 

CELEBRATING CHEKHOV

... Zoe Hicks as Sonya and Alan Brown as Vanya in Northampton Repertory's production of Uncle Vanya, presented in celebration of the centenary of Chekhov's birth. ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: photograph