... COVENT GARDEN To the Editor of The Stage Sir, I have read the letter from Mr. Harold D. Rosenthal which appeared in a recent issue. In reply I would like to stale that many of the Covent Garden relics in my possession were the property of my own ancestors ...

... COVENT GARDEN From Sir Tom O'Brien To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir, You are to be heartily con gratulated on your excellent editorial on the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, in your last Thursday's issue. A reprint of your editorial should bo widely ...

... COVENT GARDEN To the F.diior of Thf Stage Dear Sir,--My attention has been drawn to the paragraph in a recent copy of THE STAGE, in which Mr. MacQucen pope states that he is under contract to write a history of Covent Garden Theatre as part of the series ...

... COVENT GARDEN FUND. Str, Thanks are duo to Mr. O. Han- clinge for his letter, published in your lasl issue, respecting the Covent Garden Fund. The question requires thorough recon sideration altogether, and, if need be, a fresh committee appointed. The ...

... Covent Garden Footlight ^R. Mr. Melvin Milton's Ictler in the stake. in which he says how good the new Covent Garden stage is. provokes me to remark that it is not the stage but the new footlight that is respon sible. Before my letter is dismissed as ...

... display. This could point the way for deve loping the Covent Garden site for both opera and ballet by some really imaginative planning. A new dance centre located in this area would help Covent Garden become the principal cultural centre in Europe. One ...

... Sir David Webster on Production at Covent Garden SIR,--I hate to cross swords wilh the siaok. whose support of Coverw Garden has been continuous since our first efforts in 1946, but I cannot allow the leader in last week's issue headed Dilemma at the ...

... possession of the .real facts. (1) The Covent Garden opera company, whose first tour will open on September 23 next in Halifax, will be recruited, rehearsed, pro duced, and managed entirely by the Covent Garden Opera Syndi cate, Ltd., who are the lessees ...

... components that make up Covent Garden. Thus it was a deep shock to find that the threat was coming from within rather than without. The ROH must be aware that their scheme will open up the whole debate about development of Covent Garden as well as destroy ...

... conceTt and sporting event tickets to the public. The Ticket Shop in Covent Garden Market has no connection what- /^*v^r with Ornss dircl* Patrick Martyn Monmouth Street Covent Garden ...

... Punch and Judy SIR, I am thinking of founding a Punch and Judy Society, to be based in Covent Garden, where Punch is reported to have first been shown in England. My idea is to have visitors (from home and abroad) bringing their children to see a different ...

... allies in the calls.- of reviving my old Covent Garden proposal. I found them in County Hall and in Tony Crosland, who was Secretary of State for the Environment at the time. The first commanded Covent Garden and the second Somerset House. Among the ...