... AT CRIPPLEGATE THE NEW GOSSOON On January 3 the Drama Circle of the London Ulster Association presented, at the Cripple-gate Institute, the play by George Shiels entitled. Most Irish playwrights have expressed in their works a whim sical sense of humour and a droll- peculiar to the Irish. In this F.lav Mr Shiels does not deviate, t is all humour; but he indicates that the eld Ireland, with ...

... BLACKPOOL PREMIERE FOUR HOURS TO KILL On Monday, at the Grand. Blackpool. Bernard Delfont presented the American play by Norman Krasna entitled. Entwined in this drama are three stories, ali taking place in the luxurious lounge of a 45rd- street theatre in New York. The play opens as the audience are passing .hrough to take their scats Here ;n the crush are Joseph Taft. a plain-clothes ...

... COVENT GARDEN THE VALKYRIE On wednesday of last week the Covent Garden Trust staged the first performance since the war of Wagner's i lie amyne. Stephen Williams writes: This production has come in for some fairly hard knocks Many critics have waxed facetious about Die lighting or we might more appropriately call It the search- lighting and others have coin- plained of the stark, ...

... ST. ANNE'S, SOHO THE MASQUE OF ST. ANTONY For the past fortnight St. Anne's House. Soho. has presented the first part of This Way to the Tomb, by Ronald Duncan, under its original title of The Masque of Saint Antony. This studious work, with the attractive music of Benjamin Britten, lost nothing in being entrusted to a semi- professional company. Also, the producer was Frank Napier, who ...

... NORWICH PREMIERE AND HE DID HIDE HIMSELF On Monday, at the Maddermarket, Norwich, the Maddermarket Theatre Trust. Ltd., presented the Norwich Players in the first English production of a play in three acts by Ignazio Silone entitled And He Did Hide Himself.'* The Italian author, an ardent Socialist, has based his story of the Italian underground movement on his novel Bread and Wine. ...

... BRIGHTON PREMIERE THE GALE On Tuesday of last week at the PLayhouse, Brighton, was pre sented a jew play in three acts by Parnell Bradbury entitled The Gale. A better title would be The Tame Bull. as the whole of the drama of a doctor's efforts to im prove scientifically on human nature follow# his successful ex periment in changing the temper of a fierce bull. It is. indeed, chiefly ...

... THE UNITY SIX MEN OF DORSET To those accustomed to the excellent standard frequently achieved in the presentations at the Unity Theatre the production of Six Men of Dorset seen on Friday will be something of a ?i) ...

... NEW LINDSEY WINTERSET On Monday. Independent Theatre Productions, by arrange ment with the New Lindsey Theatre Club, presented a revival of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset. The group of young players, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, the American Correspondents' Association and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. who have put on this production, deserve every help and consideration for ...

... THE SAVILLE INDIAN BALLET On Wednesday of last week Julian Braunsweg and the Music, Art, and Drama Society, by arrangement with Bernarcl Delfont, presented rvttiii vjuiwi anu ni> iiiuian naii^i The eye is beguiled and the senses bewitched by the new pro gramme of Indian dances which Ram Gopal and his trouDe are per forming in London, after their re- rent Paris season. Thev bring more than ...

... ST. JAMES'S THE BOLTONS REVUE On Tuesday Bottoms theatre (Kensington), Ltd., presented an intimate revue devised and directed by Billy Milton, with dances and arrangements by Donald Reed, entitled The Boltons Revue. The Boltons Revue has been considerably strengthened and brightened since its original.pro- duction at the Boltons last Christ mas. when it was fully noticed in The Stage. It ...

... YORK PREMIERE NOBODY CARES A new play by Alan Holden Wood is being produced at the Royal. York, this week, by the repertory company. Mr Wood chooses the controversial subject of marriage as his main theme, and deals with this in a masterly style. The cleverly contrived situ ations during the phoney war. and command of scintillating humour, make this play one of high quality and first-class ...

... ARTS, CAMBRIDGE TROILUS AND CRESSIDA On Tuesday at the Arts. Cam bridge. the Cambridge Marlowe Society and A. D C presented a Lent Term production of Shake speare's Troilus and Cressida. This revival is notable for some of Shakespeare's best language clearly and fluently spoken by eager, virile, young players and for beauty of decor and costumes illuminated by adroitly contrived lighting. ...