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ThW/Jan 1940 (No.180): Scenes from BLACK VELVET (Roma Beaumont,
Vic Oliver, Pat Kirkwood, Carole Lynne, Cyril Smith, Teddy Brown, Anne D'Arcy,
Roberta Huby, Sheila Kings, Judy Trevor), LADIES IN RETIREMENT (Mary
Clare, Mary Merrall), portraits of Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans,
Emlyn Williams, Martita Hunt, reviews, Echoes from Broadway, feature on
The Duke of York's Theatre etc. [28pp, 8.75x11.75; VG; uncommon wartime
issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Feb 1940 (No.181): Scenes from ALL CLEAR (Beatrice
Lillie, Bobby Howes, Adele Dixon, Fred Emney, Robert Eddison),
LADIES IN RETIREMENT (Mary Clare, Richard Newton), portraits of Godfrey
Tearle, Diana Churchill, small portrait of Vivien Leigh, Echoes from
Broadway etc. [28pp, 8.75x11.75; spine partially split, centre pages loose,
else VG; uncommon wartime issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Mch 1940 (No.182): Scenes from LIGHTS UP! (Evelyn
Laye, Clifford Mollison, Martyn Green, Phyllis Stanley, Betty Hare,
Doris Hare, Patrick Dennis, James Hayter - 25 photos), DESIRE UNDER
THE ELMS (Beatrix Lehmann, Stephen Murray, Mark Dignam), portraits
of Joan Swinstead, Iris Lockwood, Feature on the Theatre Royal, Haymarket,
Echoes from Broadway etc. [28pp, 8.75x11.75; spine rubbed and slightly split,
else VG; uncommon wartime issue] (£4) SOLD
ThW/May 1940 (No.184): Scenes from JEANNIE (Eric Portman, Barbara
Mullen) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby, spine rubbed, minor marks,
else VG; uncommon wartime issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Jun 1940 (No.185): Scenes from UP AND DOING (Leslie Henson)
[28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly marked and grubby, spine rubbed, minor marks,
else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Jul 1940 (No.186): Scenes from SWINGING THE GATE (Hermione
Gingold) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby and partially split, spine
rubbed, minor marks, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Aug 1940 (No.187): Scenes from WOMEN AREN'T ANGELS (Alfred
Drayton, Robertson Hare) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby, spine
rubbed, very minor marks, else VVG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Sep 1940 (No.188): Scenes from COTTAGE TO LET (Leslie Banks)
[28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby, very minor marks, else VVG; uncommon
wartime issue] £5
ThW/Oct 1940 (No.189): Scenes from REBECCA (Owen Nares, Celia
Johnson) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby, very minor marks, else VG;
uncommon wartime issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Nov 1940 (No.190): Scenes from THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
(Robert Donat, Rosamund John, Roger Livesey, Joyce Redman, Ernest
Hare - 11 photos), 'Plays on Tour' (one photo each): UP AND DOING (Cyril
Ritchard, Leslie Henson), NEW FACES (Hazel Jennings, John Bentley),
COTTAGE TO LET (Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Gillian Lind),
WOMEN AREN'T ANGELS (Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Judy Kelly);
portraits of Edith Evans and Constance Cummings; 3 photos of
DISRAELI (Warner Bros. film, known as AN EMPIRE WAS BUILT, with John
Gielgud, Fay Compton, Diana Wynyard); Round the Repertory Theatres, Echoes
From Broadway, reviews etc. [28pp, 8.75x11.75; slightly rumpled, else VG;
uncommon wartime issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Dec 1940 (No.191): THE ARTS THEATRE BALLET (Prudence Hyman, Guy Massey) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; minor marks, else VVG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
1941
ThW/Jan 1941 (No.192): LUNCH-TIME SHAKESPEARE - 7-page Pictorial Souvenir (with 15+ photos) on Donald Wolfit's Lunch-Time Shakespeare Season at the Strand Theatre; the plays featured are HAMLET, MERCHANT OF VENICE, AS YOU LIKE IT, VOLPONE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, TAMING OF THE SHREW, MACBETH, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR [28pp, 8.75x11.75; slightly rumpled, and slight split at spine, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Feb 1941 (No.193): Scenes from BERKELEY SQUARE (Jean Forbes-Robertson) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly scuffed, spine rubbed, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Mch 1941 (No.194): Scenes from DEAR BRUTUS (John Gielgud, Muriel Pavlow, Ursula Jeans, Roger Livesey, Margaret Rawlings, Nora Swinburne, George Howe, Ronald Ward, Leon Quartermaine - 15 photos); portraits of Fredda Brilliant, Gordon Harker, Neil Crawford, Phoebe Kershaw, Pamela Brownas Hedda Gabler, Sonnie Hale as Widow Twankey; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [28pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly scuffed, spine rubbed, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Apr 1941(No.195): Scenes from DIVERSION NO.2 and THUNDER ROCK(Edith Evans) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; spine rubbed, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/May 1941 (No.196): Scenes from NO TIME FOR COMEDY (Diana Wynyard) [28pp, 8.75x11.75; spine tatty and ragged, slightly rumpled, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £3
ThW/Jun 1941 (No.197): Scenes from SHEPHARD'S PIE [24pp, 8.75x11.75; cover slightly grubby, spine rubbed, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Jul 1941(No.198): Scenes from RISE ABOVE IT (Hermione Baddeley, Walter Crisham, Hermione Gingold, Henry Kendall) [24pp, 8.75x11.75; slightly rumpled, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] £5
ThW/Aug 1941(No.199): Scenes from BLITHE SPIRIT (Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond, Fay Compton, Cecil Parker - 16 photos), QUIET WEEKEND(Glynis Johns, Michael Wilding, Jeanne Stuart, George Thorpe - 4 photos); portraits of Glynis Johns, Judy Campbell, Fay Compton, Kay Hammond, Cecil Parker; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [24pp, 8.75x11.75; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] (£6) SOLD
ThW/Sep 1941 (No.200): Scenes from QUIET WEEKEND (Michael Wilding, Glynis Johns, Marjorie Fielding, George Thorpe - 16 photos), FUN AND GAMES (Richard Hearne, Carol Rayne - 1 photo); review of the 1941 Season at Stratford-upon-Avon; portrait of Emlyn Williams in LIGHT OF HEART; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [24pp, 8.75x11.75; slightly rumpled, minor foxing on back cover, else VG; uncommon wartime issue] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Oct 1941: Scenes from FUN AND GAMES (Carol Rayne, Arthur Riscoe, Vera Pearce, Richard Hearne, Sydney Howard, Frank Leighton, The Raviolis, Frank Tilton - 33 photos); portrait of Frances Day; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; rumpled, a little tatty, spine rubbed, else VG] £3
ThW/Nov 1941: Scenes from THE NUTMEG TREE (Yvonne Arnaud, Frederick Leister - 2 photos), War-Time Story of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells Companies (20 photos), BLACK VANITIES (Frances Day, Zoe Gail, Naunton Wayne, Patricia Leonard, Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Robert Lindon -12 photos), NO TIME FOR COMEDY (Diana Wynyard, Lilli Palmer - 2 photos); portrait of Vivien Leigh; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; covers detached, otherwise VG] (£3) SOLD
ThW/Dec 1941: Scenes from JUPITER LAUGHS (James Mason, Raymond Lovell, Beatrice Varley, Norman Pitt, Peggy Bryan, Rosemary Scott, Penny Baker, Claude Bailey, Grace Arnold, Lynn Evans - 17 photos), DISTANT POINT (Christopher Willard, Arthur Hambling, Mary Morris, Edmund Willard, Tarver Penna, Maria Britnieva, Esme Percy, Josephine Wilson - 3 photos), OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES (Marie Lohr, Phyllis Dare, Olive Walter, Rene Ray, Pamela Stirling, Derek Blomfield, Henry Edwards, Esma Cannon - 14 photos), JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at the Coliseum (Lorely Dyer, Norman Evans, J.P.Kennedy - 4 photos); features on Private Griffith Jones (w.photo) and Anna May Wong (w.photo); portrait of Isolde Denham; reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine split, otherwise VG] £4
1942
ThW/Jan 1942 (No.204): Scenes from GET A LOAD OF THIS (Celia Lipton) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Feb 1942 (No.205): Scenes from THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Robert Morley, Coral Browne) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; cover almost detached, else VG] £4
ThW/Mch 1942 (No.206): Scenes from THE MORNING STAR (Emlyn Williams) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1942 (No.207): Scenes from OLD ACQUAINTANCE (Edith Evans) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/May 1942 (No.208): Scenes from BLOSSOM TIME (Richard Tauber) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Jun 1942 (No.209): Scenes from WATCH ON THE RHINE (Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler, Betty Hardy, Peter Murray Hill, Judy Campbell - 25 photos), FINE AND DANDY (Leslie Henson, Dorothy Dickson, Graham Payn, Douglas Byng - 4 photos), SCOOP (Henry Kendall, Patricia Leonard, Charles Hawtrey - 8 photos); portraits of Ivor Novello and Muriel Barron, Margaretta Scott as Lady Teazle, and Griffith Jones as himself; interview with Yvonne Arnaud, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Jul 1942 (No.210): Scenes from FINE AND DANDY (Dorothy Dickson, Graham Payn, Leslie Henson, Stanley Holloway, Douglas Byng, Lois Davis - 28 photos), STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Baliol Holloway, Gaorge Hayes, George Skillan, Jay Laurier - 4 photos); portraits of Jessie Matthews and Carole Lynne; interview with Helena Pickard (Lady Hardwicke) w.portrait; Echoes From Broadway (photo of Paul Muni and Jessica Tandy), reviews etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1942 (No.211): Scenes from SKY HIGH (Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold, Walter Crisham, Naunton Wayne) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Sep 1942 (No.212): Scenes from MACBETH (John Gielgud) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Oct 1942 (No.213): Scenes from WILD ROSE (Jessie Matthews, Richard Hearne, Frank Leighton) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Nov 1942 (No.214): Scenes from CLAUDIA (Hugh Sinclair, Pamela Brown) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Dec 1942 (No.215): Scenes from DU BARRY WAS A LADY (Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe) [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, minor marks, else VG] £4
1943
ThW/Jan 1943 (No.216): Scenes from LET'S FACE IT (Bobby Howes, Noele Gordon, Pat Kirkwood), WALTZ WITHOUT END (Jane Carr, Betty Warren, Ivor Sheridan), THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Cyril Ritchard, Peggy Ashcroft, Jean Cadell - 19 photos), PANTOMIMES (Arthur Askey, Lesley Osmond) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; minor marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Feb 1943 (No.217): Scenes from THE PETRIFIED FOREST (Constance Cummings, Owen Nares - 26 photos), ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Lilian Braithwaite, Mary Jerrold, Naunton Wayne - 3 photos), BEST BIB AND TUCKER (Tommy Trinder as Carmen Miranda), THE MUSIC OF AMERICA and THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS (variety shows), WITHOUT LOVE (Katharine Hepburn, Elliott Nugent), THE HOUSE OF JEFFREYS (Sybil Thorndike, Russell Thorndike) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; spine rubbed, minor marks on cover] £3
ThW/Mch 1943 (No.218): Scenes from ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Lilian Braithwaite, Mary Jerrold, Naunton Wayne - 32 photos), MURDER WITHOUT CRIME (Walter Fitzgerald), MEN IN SHADOW (John Mills), QUIET WEEKEND (Glynis Johns), FLARE PATH (Adrianne Allen, George Cole), WATCH ON THE RHINE (Athene Seyler) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; minor marks on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1943 (No.219): Scenes from BRIGHTON ROCK (Richard Attenborough, Dulcie Gray, Hermione Baddeley, Harcourt Williams - 31 photos), A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY(Michael Redgrave, Valerie Taylor - 4 photos), THE MERRY WIDOW (Madge Elliott, Cyril Ritchard, Nancy Evans), Drawings by Stanley Parker, THREE SISTERS (Judith Anderson, Katharine Cornell), THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Tallulah Bankhead) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; minor marks on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/May 1943 (No.220): Scenes from A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (Michael Redgrave, Valerie Taylor, Ronald Squire - 24 photos), THEY CAME TO A CITY (Googie Withers, John Clements), WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS (Barbara Mullen, John Stuart, Nicholas Hannen), HEARTBREAK HOUSE (Robert Donat, Edith Evans, Isabel Jeans, Deborah Kerr), THE VAGABOND KING (Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler, Henry Baynton) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; cover detached, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jun 1943 (No.221): Scenes from LOVE FOR LOVE (John Gielgud, Yvonne Arnaud, Max Adrian, Miles Malleson, Leslie Banks, Angela Baddeley, Leon Quartermaine - 19 photos), PRESENT LAUGHTER and THIS HAPPY BREED (Noel Coward, Judy Campbell, Joyce Carey, James Donald), 1943 STRATFORD FESTIVAL (Baliol Holloway, Abraham Sofaer, Patricia Jessel, Anna Konstam), JUNIOR MISS (Betty Marsden, Joan White, Ronald Ward, Peggy Cummins - 17 photos) etc. [36pp, 5.8x8.75; minor marks on cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jul 1943 (No.222): Scenes from THE VAGABOND KING (Ann
Ziegler, Webster Booth, Henry Baynton, Syd Walker, Tessa Deane, Sara Gregory -
22 photos), THEY CAME TO A CITY (John Clements, Googie Withers, Frances
Rowe, Mabel Terry-Lewis, A.E.Matthews, Norman Shelley, Raymond Huntley, Renee
Gadd, Ada Reeve - 18 photos), THE MOON IS DOWN (Lewis Casson, Dorothy
Dewhurst, Karel Stepanek, Alan Haines - 5 photos); article on Oxford Summer
Festival of the Arts, 1943; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75;
spine slightly scuffed, else VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1943 (No.223): Scenes from SWEET AND LOW (Walter Crisham, Hermione Gingold, Graham Penley, Edna Wood, Ilena Sylva, Brenda Bruce, Mary Irwin, Bonar Colleano - 29 photos), MAGIC CARPET(Sydney Howard, Graham Payne, Betty Warren, Cyril Fletcher - 5 photos), LISBON STORY (Patricia Burke, Joseph Dollinger, Jack Livesey, Noele Gordon, Arsene Kirilloff, Albert Lieven, Alicia Halama, Czeslaw Konarski - 10 photos), HI-DE-HI ("Monsewer" Eddie Gray, Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Florence Desmond - 6 photos) reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; cover almost detached, else VG] £4
ThW/Sep 1943 (No.224): Scenes from IT'S TIME TO DANCE (Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Fred Emney, Marjorie Brooks, Buddy Bradley, Anthony Howard, Daria Luna, Andrew Leigh - 36 photos), LOTTIE DUNDASS (Sybil Thorndike, Ann Todd, Renee Ascherson, Charles Sewell, John Jarvis, Bruce Winston, Helen Horsey - 16 photos); article on Emlyn Williams (w.photo) etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; cover detached, otherwise VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Oct 1943 (No.225): Scenes from PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX(Iris Hoey, David Horne, Philip Friend, Margaret Barton, Audrey Hesketh, Dorothy Hyson, Cecil Bevan, Eric Micklewood, Shelagh Furley - 22 photos), SUNNY RIVER (Evelyn Laye, Edith Day, Bertram Wallis, Kenneth Blain, Dennis Noble, Lionel Trim, Don Avory, Marion Wilson, Ena Burrill, Edna Proud, Bernard Ansell - 16 photos), THE FUR COAT (Jeanne de Casalis, Henry Kendall, Beryl Mason, John Burch - 10 photos), article on 'The New "Lac des Cygnes"' w.photo of Margot Fonteyn, portraits of Roslie Crutchley, Leueen MacGrath, Isolde Denham, and Dulcie Gray, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine rubbed, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Nov 1943 (No.226): Scenes from MR.BOLFRY (Alastair Sim, Sophie Stewart, Walter Fitzgerald, Alfie Bass, Dorothy Smith, Ronald Millar, Sheila Brownrigg - 22 photos), MY SISTER EILEEN(Coral Browne, Max Bacon, Sally Gray - 4 photos), The new LE LAC DES CYGNES (Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Joan Sheldon, Alexis Rassine, Margaret Dale, designed by Leslie Hurry - 5 photos); 4 Sadler's Wells Opera portraits (Ben Williams, Joan Cross, John Hargreaves, Edith Coates); portraits of Peggy Ashcroft and John Clements; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly scuffed, otherwise VG] £4
ThW/Dec 1943 (No.227): Scenes from MY SISTER EILEEN (Sally Gray, Coral Browne, Cyril Renison, Charles Farrell, Elizabeth Hunt, Harry Ross, Graeme Muir, Charles Rolfe, Carl Lacey, Ellis Irving, Virginia Winter, Ian Fleming, James Page, Richard Molinas - 25 photos), TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (Henrietta Watson, Percy Walsh, Terence de Marney - 1 photo), ACACIA AVENUE (Dorothy Hamilton, Gordon Harker, Rhoderick Walker, Yvonne Owen, Miki Hood, Doris Rogers, Alfred Farrell, Hubert Gregg, Megs Jenkins - 10 photos), THE LOVE RACKET (Peggy Carlisle, Arthur Askey, Roy Royston, Carol Raye, Harry Milton, Valerie Tandy, Hugh Morton - 7 photos), THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (Barry K Barnes, Diana Churchill, Margaret Halstan - 3 photos); articles on The Market Theatre, Conference at Kazan: Non-Russian Soviet Theatres; portraits of Joyce Redman, Elsie Randolph, Peggy Hale in JUNIOR MISS, Peter Graves, Vivienne Bennett, The Lunts, Jane Baxter, Y vonne Arnaud, Ann Todd in LOTTIE DUNDASS; reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; minor marks, else VG] (£4) SOLD
1944
ThW/Jan 1944 (No.228): Scenes from SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Geoffrey Wardwell, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ronald Shiner, Peggy Watson, Sabina Gordon, Eunice Crowther, Jean Gillie - 14 photos), PANAMA HATTIE(Bebe Daniels, Claude Hulbert, Ivan Brandt, Betty Blacker, Richard Hearne, Queenie (as Ben Hur), Max Wall - 14 photos), TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (Allan Jeayes, Linden Travers, Percy Walsh, Gwyn Nicholls, Michael Blake, Eric Cowley, Terence de Marney - 12 photos); portraits of Muriel Pavlow, Gladys Henson, Michael Wilding, Hugh McDermott; 2-page interview with Griffith Jones (w.photo) etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; minor marks, slightly rumpled, cover partially split at spine, else VG] (£3) SOLD
ThW/Mch 1944 (No.230): Scenes from ARC DE TRIOMPHE (Mary Ellis, Harcourt Williams, Peter Graves, Gwen Floyd, Raymond Lovell, Vicki Bruce, Netta Westcott, Nesta Ross, Maidie Andrews, Tony de Lungo, Elisabeth Welch, Hilary Allen, Eric Starling - 21 photos), THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT (Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Terry Morgan, Muriel Pavlow, Gerald Kempinski - 8 photos); portraits of Gabrielle Brune, Robert Helpmann (as Hamlet), Joyce Barbour, Francoise Rosay, Hermione Gingold, and Henry Kendall; cartoon of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (by Stanley Parker); Tribute to Alice Delysia (w.photo); article on Unity Theatre (w.4 photos) etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, spine rubbed, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1944 (No.231): Scenes from A SOLDIER FOR CHRISTMAS (Joyce Barbour, Robert Beatty, Trevor Howard, Winifred Hindle, Pauline Letts, Meriel Forbes, Joan Harben, Susan Richmond, Frances Waring - 20 photos), THE DRUID'S REST (Richard Burton, Gladys Henson, Brynmor Thomas, Nuna Davey, Neil Porter, Lyn Evans, Roddy Hughes, Michael Shepley - 13 photos), HAMLET (Robert Helpmann, Basil Sydney, Margot Grahame, Pamela Brown, Dennis Price (as Horatio), Geoffrey Toone - 9 photos); portraits of Joan White, Beatrix Lehmann, Mary Jerrold, Patricia Hicks, Leslie Banks, and Betty Ann Davies; article about Ballet Rambert (w.photo); interview with Dorothy Hyson (w.photo) etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, spine rubbed, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/May 1944 (No.232): Scenes from SWEETER AND LOWER (Hermione Gingold, Henry Kendall, Gretchen Franklin, Edna Wood, Bonar Colleano, Ilena Sylvia, Richard Curnock, George Carden - 21 photos), THE LILAC DOMINO (Pat Taylor, Graham Payn, Bernard Clifton, Elizabeth French, Billy Holland - 11 photos); article about the 'English National Ballet' (w.photo of Ninette de Valois); portraits of Michael Redgrave and Beatrix Lehmann in UNCLE HARRY, Ena Burrill, Flora Robson in GUILTY (Therese Raquin), Arthur Roscoe, Carole Lynne, Brenda Bruce, Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dickson, Beatrice Lillie etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, slightly rumpled, spine rubbed, else VG] £4
ThW/Jun 1944 (No.233): Scenes from UNCLE HARRY (Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Beatrix Lehmann, Ena Burrill, Susan Richards, Keith Campbell, Grace Denbeigh-Russell, Hugh Stewart, John Garside, Lee Fox, Margery Bryce, Donald Finlay - 23 photos), 1944 STRATFORD FESTIVAL (Helen Cherry, George Hayes, John Byron, Patricia Jessel, Antony Eustrel, Cliff Weir, Mary Honer, Michael Martin-Harvey, Viola Lyel - 18 photos), portraits of Anna Neagle, Marjorie Sandford etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; spine rubbed, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jul 1944 (No.234): Scenes from MEET ME VICTORIA (Lupino Lane, Phyllis Robins, Eddie Lathan, Barry MacDonald, Dorothy Ward, William Norman, Violet Blythe, Doreen Duke, Lauri Lupino Lane, Wallace Lupino, Ann Booth - 17 photos), STRATFORD FESTIVAL (Robert Atkins, John Byron, David Read, Peter Upcher, Viola Lyel, Mary Honer, George Hayes, Antony Eustrel, Helen Cherry, Cliff Weir - 12 photos), Two Years at the Arts Theare (w.18 photos), portrait of John Gielgud etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; page 23-24 neatly removed, name on cover, spine rubbed, else VG] £2
ThW/Aug 1944 (No.235): Scenes from THE LAST OF MRS.CHEYNEY (Coral Browne, Jack Buchanan, Austin Trevor, Margaret Scudamore, Athene Seyler, - 19 photos); charming portrait of Ursula Jeans and Roger Livesey; portraits of Edna Wood, Ilena Sylva, and Gretchen Franklin (in SWEETER AND LOWER); articles on PYGMALION in Moscow (Maly Theatre w.7 photos), Beatrice Lillie (w.photo), Post-War Plans for the Ex-Service Actor; Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, spine rubbed, else VG] £4
ThW/Sep 1944 (No.236): Scenes from ARMS AND THE MAN (Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Redman, Nicholas Hannen - 19 photos), PEER GYNT (Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike - 5 photos), SADLER'S WELLS BALLET (portraits of Robert Helpmann, Margot Fonteyn, Beryl Grey, Julia Farron, Celia Franca, Margaret Dale, Joan Sheldon, Peggy Van Praagh); portraits of Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Campbell; Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, spine rubbed, rumpled, else VG] £3
ThW/Oct 1944 (No.237): Scenes from TO-MORROW THE WORLD (David O'Brien, Jean Cadell, Angela Glynne, Robert Harris, Elizabeth Allan, Lilly Kann, Julian Mitchell, Tony Millen, Billy Darren, Derek Lansiaux - 29 photos), THE BANBURY NOSE (Roger Livesey, Michael Shepley, Hugh Burden, Richard Wordsworth, Marione Everall, Ursula Jeans, Richard Hart, Christine Silver, Isolde Denham - 7 photos); portraits of Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt (in THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT), Kay Hammond, Jane Baxter, Rachel Kempson, Phyllis Monkman; feature on Sonia Dresdel (w.photo); Echoes from Broadway, etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, slightly rumpled, spine rubbed, else VG] £3
ThW/Nov 1944 (No.238): Scenes from RICHARD III (Laurence Olivier, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Warre, Nicholas Hannen, Harcourt Williams, George Relph, Maurice Nicholas, Bay White, Charles Leno, Sydney Tafler, Nancy Nevinson, Ralph Richardson - 19 photos), PEER GYNT (Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, Nicholas Hannen, Vida Hope, Harcourt Williams, George Relph, Laurence Olivier - 14 photos); portraits of Fay Compton, Angela Baddeley, Vivienne Bennett; Echoes from Broadway, etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, rumpled, spine rubbed, else VG] £3
ThW/Dec 1944 (No.239): Scenes from HAMLET (John Gielgud, Leslie Banks, Marian Spencer, Miles Malleson, Peggy Ashcroft - 23 photos), MIRACLE IN THE GORBALS (Robert Helpmann), portraits of Hermione Gingold, Kay Hammond and John Clements in PRIVATE LIVES, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; minor marks, spine rubbed, else VG] £5
1945
ThW/Jan 1945 (No.240): Scenes from NO MEDALS (Pauline Tennant, Fay Compton, Valerie White, Frederick Leister, Thora Hird), BLITHE SPIRIT (Penelope Ward, Beryl Measor, Nicholas Phipps), THREE'S A FAMILY (Vera Pearce, Morland Graham), THE MAGISTRATE (Denys Blakelock, Derek Blomfield, Newton Blick, Helen Cherry), IT DEPENDS WHAT YOU MEAN (Alastair Sim, Margaret Barton, Alec Faversham, Angela Baddeley, Wilfred Hyde White), The Problem of the Prodigy (article w.photo about Sir Cedric Hardwicke and his 12-year old son Edward Hardwicke), New shows of the month (incl.Ellen Pollock in PYGMALION), portrait of Clive Brook, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Feb 1945 (No.241): Scenes from THE CIRCLE (Yvonne Arnaud, Leslie Banks, Rosalie Crutchley, John Gielgud, Cecil Trouncer - 17 photos), A NIGHT IN VENICE (Daria Bayan, Henry Wendon, George Howe, Jerry Verno - 9 photos), Portrait of Nora Swinburne, review of UNCLE VANYA (Old Vic Company), Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Mch 1945 (No.242): Scenes from LOVE IN IDLENESS (Alfred
Lunt, Lynn Fontanne - 19 photos), COSI FAN TUTTE at Sadler's
Wells (Joan Cross, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan), EMMA
(Anna Neagle), UNCLE VANYA (Laurence Olivier, Ralph
Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Margaret Leighton, Harcourt Williams,
Joyce Redman - 17 photos), ENSA and the Drama by Peter Noble, portraits
of Evelyn Laye and Diana Wynyard, two studies of Anna Neagle as Emma
etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1945 (No.243): Scenes from THREE WALTZES (Evelyn Laye, Esmond Knight, Madoline Thomas, Fred Berger, Charles Goldner, Frances Clare - 24 photos), PRIVATE LIVES (John Clements, Kay Hammond, Raymond Huntley - 14 photos), EMMA (Anna Neagle, Ambrosine Philpotts, Frank Allenby, Graveley Edwards), Feature on Mary Clare, Unusual portrait of Vivien Leigh, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/May 1945 (No.244): Scenes from THE YEARS BETWEEN (Clive Brook, Nora Swinburne, Ronald Ward, John Gilpin - 19 photos), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Leslie Banks, Isobel Dean), IRENE (Pat Taylor, Frank Leighton, Arthur Riscoe), 5 portraits from the 1945 Stratford-upon-Avon Season (Claire Luce, Moira Lister, Antony Eustrel, George Skillan, Robert Atkins), Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
ThW/Jun 1945 (No.245): Scenes from GAY ROSALINDA (Cyril Ritchard, Ruth Naylor, Irene Ambrus, Peter Graves, Jay Laurier, conducted by Richard Tauber), 1945 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON FESTIVAL (David Read, Tristan Rawson, Antony Eustrel, Claire Luce, George Skillan, Viola Lyel, Moira Lister, Robert Atkins, W.E.Holloway, Peter Bell - 19 photos and review), Sadler's Wells Ballet Season, portrait of Sophie Stewart and Richard Bird in THE LADY FROM EDINBURGH, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Jul 1945 (No.246): Scenes from THE WIND OF HEAVEN (Emlyn Williams, Diana Wynyard), THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Leslie Banks, Cecil Trouncer, Leon Quartermaine - 11 photos), MADAME LOUISE (Constance Lorne, Robertson Hare, Lesley Brook, Alfred Drayton), KING HENRY VIII at Stratford-upon-Avon, Feature on Claire Luce w.photo, Short feature on PETER GRIMES with photo of Peter Pears, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1945 (No.247): Scenes from LADY FROM EDINBURGH (Sophie Stewart, Richard Bird, Dulcie Gray), THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC (Vic Oliver, Jill Manners), SWEETER AND LOWER (Henry Kendall), JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL (Karel Stepanek, Michael Redgrave, Esme Percy, Rachel Kempson, Frith Banbury), Photos and feature on The Ballet Jooss at the Winter Garden, Portrait of Frank Leighton and Angela Baddeley in CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY, Photos of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, Mary Jerrold and Lilian Braithwaite in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, and Robert Harris and Elizabeth Allan in TOMORROW THE WORLD, Feature on Peter Graves w.photo, Short feature on Donald Wolfit's Company w.photo, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/Sep 1945 (No.248): Scenes from THE FIRST GENTLEMAN (Robert Morley, Philip Friend, Wendy Hiller, Wilfred Walter), SWEET YESTERDAY (Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler, Doris Hare - 15 photos), INTERNATIONAL BALLET (Mona Inglesby, Rovi Pavinoff, Leslie French, Algeranoff), Photos of Ivor Novello and Roma Beaumont in PERCHANCE TO DREAM, and Mary Morris and John Mills in DUET FOR TWO HANDS, Feature w.photo on the Musical Director Herbert Menges, and on THE HAUNTED BALLROOM (Robert Helpmann) w.photo, Article on C.E.M.A., Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; rumpled, else VG] £3
ThW/Oct 1945 (No.249): Scenes from PERCHANCE TO DREAM (Ivor Novello, Roma Beaumont, Margaret Rutherford, Muriel Barron, Olive Gilbert - 19 photos), DUET FOR TWO HANDS (John Mills, Mary Morris, Elspeth March - 12 photos), THE WANDERER (Robert Helpmann, Margot Fonteyn), Portrait of Laurence Olivier, Feature on Isabel Jeans, Story of a Stalag Stage by John McMillan (w.photos), Article on Theatre in the Channel Islands under the German occupation, etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Nov 1945 (No.250): Scenes from LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Dorothy Hyson, Isobel Jeans, Griffith Jones, Athene Seyler, Geoffrey Toone, directed by John Gielgud, designed by Cecil Beaton - 17 photos), HENRY IV Parts One and Two Old Vic Company at the New Theatre (Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Margaret Leighton, Michael Warre, Joyce Redman, Nicholas Hannen), GISELLE (Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann), Article on the Old Vic Theatre Company's second season, Sybil Thorndike on Greek Tragedy (w.photo), The Vaudeville Theatre 1870-1945, Echoes from Broadway etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/Dec 1945 (No.251): Scenes from OEDIPUS and THE CRITIC (Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Miles Malleson, George Relph, Michael Warre, Joyce Redman, Sydney Tafler, Peter Copley - 27 photos), FOLLOW THE GIRLS (Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall), SIGH NO MORE (Madge Elliott, Cyril Ritchard, Joyce Grenfell, Graham Payne), THE HASTY HEART (Frank Leighton, Emrys Jones, Margaretta Scott, Nicholas Parsons, Jerry Verno), THE CURE FOR LOVE (Wilfred Pickles, Rene Ray), BIG BOY (Richard Hearne, Fred Emney), Portrait of Emlyn Williams, Article on The Ballet Rambert, Interview with Robert Morley (w.photo), Feature on Henry Wendon (w.photo), The Buskers Come Back by John McMillan, Echoes from Broadway, etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £5
1946
ThW/Jan 1946 (No.252): Scenes from THE HASTY HEART (Emrys Jones, Margaretta Scott, Nicholas Parsons, Jerry Verno - 22 photos), HENRY IV Parts One and Two (Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, Sybil Thorndike, Peter Copley, Brian Parker, Miles Malleson - 24 photos), MADAME BUTTERFLY at Sadler's Wells, Article (w.photos) on The New Yiddish Theatre, Echoes from Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Feb 1946 (No.253): Scenes from UNDER THE COUNTER (Cicely Courtneidge, Thorley Walters, Hartley Power - 21 photos), THE WAY TO THE TOMB (Robert Speaight, Eric Shilling, Norman Tyrrell, Frank Napier, Edward Huberman, Pamela Alan, Eleanor Summerfield; music by Benjamin Britten - 10 photos), CINDERELLA (Lois Green, Bud Flanagan, Angela Glynne, Jean Adrienne), Portraits of Dame Edith Evans as Mrs.Malaprop, and Pamela Brown, Articles on Walter Crisham and Nora Swinburne, Echoes From Broadway (including review and photo of Maurice Evans as Hamlet) etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly bent, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1946 (No.255): Scenes from SONG OF NORWAY (Janet Hamilton-Smith, John Hargreaves, Halina Victoria, Jan Lawski, Bernard Ansell, Charles Doran, Colin Cunningham, John Pygram - 19 photos), THE GUINEA PIG (Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer), Article on THE SLEEPING BEAUTY at Covent Garden w.photos (Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer; designed by Oliver Messel), Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, THE CIRCLE produced in Moscow (w.photos), Barry Jackson on The New Idea at Stratford, W.St.John Tayleur on The Theatre in Paris and Brussels, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VGVG] £4
ThW/May 1946 (No.256): Scenes from THE GUINEA-PIG (Derek Blomfield, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Edith Sharpe, Rachel Gurney, William Mervyn, Denholm Elliott, Joan Hickson - 20 photos), The Company of Four in THE SHOUTING DIES, THE TROJAN WOMEN, THE HAPPY JOURNEY TO TRENTON AND CAMDEN, SPRING 1600, DEATH OF A RAT, THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE, TO-MORROW'S CHILD (Margaret Johnston, John Slater, Marie Ney, Andrew Cruickshank, Eileen Herlie, Robert Harris, Pamela Brown, Alastair Sim, Walter Crisham, Frederick Valk, Irene Worth, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim - 12 photos), Article on ADAM ZERO (Robert Helpmann's new ballet at Covent Garden), Composite study of Hermione Gingold, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Jun 1946 (No.257): Scenes from MAKE IT A DATE (Max Wall, Leigh Stafford, Marianne Davis, Avril Angers, Terence Delaney - 23 photos), ADAM ZERO (Robert Helpmann, Jean Bedells, June Brae - 2 photos), THE CAVE AND THE GARDEN (Bill Shine, Joan Sterndale Bennett), BALLETS NEGRES (Berto Pasuka - 6 photos), Portrait of Beatrice Lillie and article, Repertory at Oldham (w.5 photos), Article on Jack Hulbert, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Jul 1946 (No.258): Scenes from THE KINGMAKER (John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison, Irene Vanbrugh - 21 photos), HERE COME THE BOYS (Jack Hulbert, Bobby Howes, Leni Lynn, Ruthene Leclerc), Ballet at Sadler's Wells (4 photos), Portrait of Donald Wolfit in REDEMPTION, Echoes From Broadway (review of the Old Vic's New York Season) etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1946 (No.259): Scenes from SWEETEST AND LOWEST (Henry Kendall, Hermione Gingold, Edna Wood, Gretchen Franklin, George Carden - 21 photos), FRIEDA (Barbara Everest, Ursula Howells, Jack Allen, Richard Warner - 13 photos), Photo of John Gielgud and article, Portraits of Alicia Alonso, Nora Kaye, Andre Eglevsky, Lucia Chase, Hugh Laing, and Irina Baronova, Feature on Glen Byam Shaw and Angela Baddeley w.photo, Review of the 1946 Stratford-upon-Avon Festival, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Sep 1946 (No.260): Scenes from CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Peter Jones - 24 photos), 1946 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON FESTIVAL (Paul Scofield, David O'Brien, David King-Wood, Valerie Taylor, Robert Harris, Hugh Griffith - 12 photos), Portrait of Constance Cummings, Article on The Wilson Barrett Company (w.photos), Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, name written on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Oct 1946 (No.261): Scenes from BIG BEN (Carole Lynne, Trefor Jones, Noelle Gordon, Lizbeth Webb, Joan Young, David Davies, Donald Reed - 17 photos), LA BOHEME and DON PASQUALE at the Cambridge Theatre (Daria Bayan, Lester Ferguson, Ian Wallace, Martin Lawrence, Tony Sympson, Mariano Stabile, Alda Noni - 6 photos), Article on Douglas Rye (P.O.W. in Singapore), Portrait of Sid Field, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly split, else VG] £4
ThW/Nov 1946 (No.262): Scenes from CLUTTERBUCK (Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Patricia Burke, Constance Cummings - 15 photos), BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD (A.E.Matthews, Mary Jerrold, Michael Gough, Andrew Leigh), FOOLS RUSH IN (Glynis Johns, Derek Farr, Joyce Barbour, Bernard Lee), Portrait of Laurence Olivier as King Lear, Articles w.photos on Vivien Leigh and Irina Baronova, Echoes From Broadway etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Dec 1946 (No.263): Scenes from KING LEAR (Laurence Olivier, Joyce Redman, Harry Andrews, Margaret Leighton, Nicholas Hannen, Pamela Brown, Peter Copley, Michael Warre, Alec Guinness - 18 photos), THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Vivien Leigh, George Devine, Ena Burrill - 9 photos), THE FAMILY REUNION (Alan Wheatley, Catherine Lacey), FOOLS RUSH IN (Glynis Johns, Derek Farr, Joyce Barbour, Bernard Lee - 9 photos), Articles w.photos on Robert Helpmann and Sid Field, Portrait of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Portrait of Claire Luce as Becky Sharp, Echoes From Broadway etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] (£6) SOLD
1947
ThW/Jan 1947 (No.264): Scenes from CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Alec Guinness, Michael Warre, Harry Andrews, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley - 16 photos), THE WINSLOW BOY (Emlyn Williams, Frank Cellier, Angela Baddeley, Kathleen Harrison, Michael Newell - 12 photos), MESSAGE FOR MARGARET (Flora Robson, Barbara Couper), Tom Arnold's ICE REVUE (Cecilia Colledge, Olive Robinson, Armand Perren - 3 photos), Features w.photos on Coral Browne and Flora Robson, Portrait of Lupino Lane, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in War-Time and after w.photos, Review of THE FAIRY QUEEN at Covent Garden, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Feb 1947 (No.265): Scenes from THE GLEAM (Honor Blackman, Elspeth March, John Robinson, Wyndham Goldie - 19 photos), LADY FREDERICK (Coral Browne, Phyllis Dare, Edwin Styles, Vernon Greeves - 9 photos), THE MAN FROM THE MINISTRY (Clifford Mollison, Beryl Mason), Portraits of Yolande Donlan, Alicia Markova in CAMILLE and Edith Evans as Cleopatra, Interview with Mary Martin w.photo, George Devine and The Young Vic, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Mch 1947 (No.266): Scenes from ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Godfrey Tearle, Edith Evans, Nancy Nevinson, David Greene, George Howe, Michael Goodliffe, Richard Warner, Olaf Pooley, Mark Dignam, Anthony Quayle, Helen Christie, Philip Guard - 22 photos); portraits of Leonide Massine, Diana Wynyard, Diana Churchill, Celia Franca, James Bailey; Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [36pp, 5.9x8.75; name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1947 (No.267): Scenes from THE ALCHEMIST (Joyce Redman, Ralph Richardson, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Nicholas Hannen, Michael Warre, Peter Copley, Margaret Leighton - 17 photos), THE KING STAG (Young Vic production; John Byron, Rupert Davies, John Glen, Jean Wilson, Hattie Jacques, Stuart Burge - 11 photos), THE THREE-CORNERED HAT at Covent Garden (Massine, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Beryl Grey; designed by Picasso), Echoes From Broadway, including review and photo of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (John Gielgud, Robert Flemyng), Portrait of Robert Helpmann, reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, else VG] £4
ThW/May 1947 (No.268): Scenes from THE EAGLE HAS TWO HEADS (Eileen Herlie, James Donald, Ciceley Paget-Bowman, Raymond Jaquarello - 18 photos), THE WHITE DEVIL (Robert Helpmann, Margaret Rawlings, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Martita Hunt - 13 photos), BACK TO METHUSELAH (Vivienne Bennett, Adrian Cairns, Joan Haythorne, Geoffrey Dunn), Feature on Margaret Rawlings w.photo, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; light vertical band, address on rear cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jun 1947 (No.269): Scenes from BORN YESTERDAY (Hartley Power, Yolande Donlan, Michael Balfour, Bessie Love, Launce Maraschal - 20 photos), NOW BARABBAS (Julian Somers, Stanley Rose, Harry Quarshie, Tristan Rawson, Denis Webb, Violet Gould, John Baron, John Lawson - 8 photos), TOGETHER AGAIN (The Crazy Gang - 7 photos), 1066 AND ALL THAT (Leslie Henson, Doris Hare, Wallas Eaton), Feature on Anthony Burke w.photo, Interview with Noel Coward w.photo, Portrait of Georges Guetary, The Season at Stratford, Feature on Douglass Montgomery w.photo, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jul 1947 (No.270): Scenes from BLESS THE BRIDE (Lizbeth Webb, Georges Guetary, Brian Reece, Betty Paul, Eric Fort, Anona Winn, Babatunde Macaulay - 19 photos), JANE (Yvonne Arnaud, Irene Browne, Ronald Squire - 13 photos), WE PROUDLY PRESENT (Ena Burrill, Anthony Forwood, Peter Graves), RIGOLETTO at the Cambridge Theatre (Marko Rothmuller, Antonio Salvarezza, Daria Bayan - 3 photos), Feature on Ursula Jeans w.photo, Echoes From Broadway (including review of John Gielgud's production of LOVE FOR LOVE w.photo), reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Aug 1947 (No.271): Scenes from OKLAHOMA! (Harold Keel, Betty Jane Watson, Walter Donahue, Marek Windheim, Henry Clarke, Wm.J.McCarthy, Mary Marlo, Dorothea Macfarland - 16 photos), OFF THE RECORD (Hubert Gregg, Pamela Matthews, Hugh Wakefield, Tom Gill - 10 photos), HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Robert Helpmann, Audrey Fildes, Ernest Milton, Alfie Bass, Erich Pohlmann, Margaret Diamond, Leonard White - 14 photos and feature: A tribute to a brilliant but unlucky production), Features on Georges Guetary and Peggy Ashcroft w.photos, Ballet Rambert's forthcoming Australian Tour, Portrait of Margaret Leighton, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; a few light marks, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Sep 1947 (No.272): Scenes from DEEP ARE THE ROOTS (Gordon Heath, Betsy Drake, Faith Brook, Allan Jeayes, Alexander Gauge, Patrick Barr - 19 photos), 1947 STRATFORD FESTIVAL (John Ruddock, Douglas Seale, Paul Scofield, Myles Eason, Laurence Payne, John Harrison, Daphne Slater, Walter Hudd, Beatrix Lehmann, Donald Sinden, John Blatchley, Dudley Jones, Joy Parker, Robert Harris - 14 photos), EDWARD, MY SON (Robert Morley, Peggy Ashcroft, John Robinson, Leueen Macgrath - 15 photos), BALLET RUSSE at Covent Garden (Olga Morosova, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Moussia Larkina, Helen Komarova, Barbara Lloyd), Feature on Gordon Heath (On Being a Negro Actor) w.photos, Feature on Frinton Summer Theatre w.3 photos, Portrait of Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in THE LINDEN TREE, etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Oct 1947 (No.273): Scenes from DR.ANGELUS (Alastair Sim, Jane Aird, George Cole, Molly Urquhart - 16 photos), THE LINDEN TREE (Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Freda Gaye, John Dodsworth, Sonia Williams, Tilsa Page, Everley Gregg - 9 photos), LIFE WITH FATHER (Leslie Banks, Sophie Stewart, Roland Bartrop, Dorothy Gordon, Phillip Hillman - 7 photos), UNCLE VANYA at the Moscow Art Theatre (3 photos), Features on Dolores Gray and Harold Keel w.photos, Portrait of Yvonne Arnaud in JANE, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly rumpled, name on cover, else VG] £4
ThW/Nov 1947 (No.274): Scenes from PEACE IN OUR TIME (Elspeth March, Dora Bryan, George Lane, Dandy Nichols, Alan Badel, Bernard Lee, Hazel Terry, Kenneth More, Ralph Michael, Philip Guard, Michael Kent - 17 photos), PRESENT LAUGHTER (Noel Coward, Joan Swinstead, Hugh Sinclair, Billy Thatcher, Daphne Newton, Avis Scott, Joyce Carey, Moira Lister - 9 photos), The Company of Four in THE THRACIAN HORSES, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, CASTE, GALWAY HANDICAP, THE ROSSITERS, THE PLAY'S THE THING, PYGMALION (Eileen Herlie, John Justin, Geoffrey Dunn, Frederick Valk, Pierre Lefevre, Ernest Milton, Laurier Lister, Brenda Bruce, Frith Banbury, Morland Graham, Max Adrian, Arthur Sinclair, Margaret Diamond, Diana Wynyard, Irene Worth, Clive Brook, Alec Clunes, Mervyn Johns, Margaret Halstan - 14 photos), Portrait of Hilda Simms in ANNA LUCASTA, Article w.photo (Broadway - Critics and Casts) by James Mason, Features on Sybil Thorndike and Ram Gopal w.photos, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; a few light marks, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Dec 1947 (No.275): Scenes from THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by the Old Vic Company (Trevor Howard, Patricia Burke, Bernard Miles, Peter Copley, George Rose, Harry Andrews, George Relph, Renee Asherson, Mark Dignam, Cecil Winter, Frank Duncan - 22 photos), THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS (Marjorie Fielding, A.E.Matthews, Peter Coke, Diane Hart - 15 photos), SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE BALLET (Anne Heaton, Donald Britton, Maryon Lane, Elaine Fifield - 4 photos), GISELLE at Covent Garden (Margot Fonteyn, Alexis Rassine - 6 photos), Portrait of Rosamund John and James Donald in YOU NEVER CAN TELL, Features on Beryl Kaye and Harry Andrews w.photos, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1948
ThW/Jan 1948 (No.276): Scenes from ANNA LUCASTA (Hilda Simms, Frank Silvera, Edith Whiteman, Georgia Burke, Don Proctor, Frederick O'Neal, Earle Hyman, Betty Haynes - 19 photos), HAPPY AS LARRY (Liam Redmond, Sheila Manahan, Fred Johnson, Edward Byrne, Christopher Steele, Wilfred Brambell, Norman Tyrrell, Michael Gwynn - 11 photos), YOU NEVER CAN TELL (James Donald, Brenda Bruce, David Peel, Ernest Thesiger, Rosamund John, Francis Lister - 11 photos), Feature on Hilda Simms w.photo, Portrait of John Clements, Echoes From Broadway (incl. reviews and photos of Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and Godfrey Tearle and Katharine Cornell in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA), reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/Feb 1948 (No.277): Scenes from SAINT JOAN (Celia Johnson, Alec Guinness, Patricia Burke, John Clements, Frank Duncan, Harry Andrews, Mark Dignam, Kenneth Connor, Peter Copley, Bernard Miles - 22 photos), MACBETH (Ena Burrill, Michael Redgrave, Clement McCallin - 3 photos), RICHARD III (Alec Guinness, Mark Dignam, Harry Andrews, Peter Copley, Bernard Miles, George Relph, Renee Asherson, Penelope Munday - 10 photos), THE SNOW QUEEN at the Young Vic (Alfred Burke, Stuart Burge, Harold Lang, Gillian Hicks - 4 photos), Features on Celia Johnson and E.Martin Browne w.photos, Article on Charles Macready, Portraits of Margaret Rutherford, Mady Christians, Emrys Jones, Selma Vaz Dias, and Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott in THE RELAPSE, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Mch 1948 (No.278): Scenes from THE HIDDEN YEARS (Ray Jackson, Anthony Oliver, Brian Peck, Dale Rogers, Arnold English, Anthony Tancred, James Hayter, Robert Webber, Nigel Clarke, Anthony Marlowe - 13 photos), THE MASTERSINGERS at Covent Garden (Victoria Sladen, Hans Hotter, Frank Sale - 3 photos), MAM'ZELLE ANGOT, CHECKMATE, PARURES, LES RENDEZVOUS (Alexander Grant, Michael Somes, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Beryl Grey, Maryon Lane, David Poole, Michael Boulton, Elaine Fifield - 9 photos), MOUNTAIN AIR (Martin Miller, Avice Landone, Geoffrey Sumner, Margaret Goodman - 5 photos), THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY and NOAH at the Young Vic (Harold Lang, Merula Salaman, Stuart Burge, Alfred Burke, Anthony van Bridge, Max Miradin - 6 photos), BLOOD by Ballets Negres (Cherry Adele, Ben Johnson, Berto Pasuka - 3 photos), Features (w.photos) on Mae West (appearing in DIAMOND LIL) and the designer Berkeley Sutcliffe, The Story of the Theatre Programme by Mander and Mitchenson, Portrait of Gladys Cooper, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Apr 1948 (No.279): Scenes from THE INDIFFERENT SHEPHERD (Gladys Cooper, Francis Lister, Andrew Cruickshank, Charmian Eyre, Francis Lister, Anna Turner, Peter Street - 15 photos), THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Miles, Peter Copley, George Rose, Michael Raghan, Renee Asherson, Rosalind Atkinson - 11 photos), COCKPIT (Harry Locke, Joseph O'Conor, Lilly Molnar, Diana Graves, Eileen Way, Tatiana Lieven, Phyllis Mander, Dudley Jones - 8 photos), Features (w.photos) on Ray Jackson and Gladys Cooper, Drama on Television w.photos, Portrait of Ralph Richardson, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/May 1948 (No.280): Scenes from THE RELAPSE (Cyril Ritchard, Madge Elliott), CORIOLANUS by the Old Vic Company (John Clements, Alec Guinness), THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (Liam Redmond, Hugh Griffith), FALSTAFF-Verdi (Mariano Stabile) etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/June 1948 (No.281): Scenes from THE PARAGON (Walter Fitzgerald), CARISSIMA (Lester Ferguson), FRENZY (Joan Greenwood, Denholm Elliott), ROYAL CIRCLE (Ralph Richardson, Lilian Braithwaite, Lyndon Brook, Meriel Forbes - 14 photos) etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/July 1948 (No.282): Scenes from THE GIOCONDA SMILE (Pamela Brown), LITTLE LAMBS EAT IVY (Joan Haythorne), KING JOHN, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, HAMLET, and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Stratford (Robert Helpmann, Paul Scofield, Anthony Quayle) etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1948 (No.283): Scenes from THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE (Margaret Rutherford, Viola Lyel, George Howe, Molly Weir - 17 photos), Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh Australian Old Vic Tour - 10 unusual photos, BOB'S YOUR UNCLE (Leslie Henson), portraits of Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Michael Gough etc. [44pp, 5.8x8.75; VG] £6
ThW/Sep 1948: Feature on ARTS THEATRE FESTIVAL with scenes from ROSMERSHOLM (4 photos), TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD (7 photos), and TARTUFFE (9 photos), and portraits of 15 leading players (Marius Goring, Stanley Van Beers, Michael Brennan, Stafford Byrne, Joyce Hodgkinson, Charles Lloyd Pack, Daphne Slater, Lucie Mannheim, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Richard Gale, Joyce Heron, Geoffrey Hibbert, Pamela Stirling, Eileen Thorndike, Wilfrid Walter); scenes from CAGE ME A PEACOCK (Yolande Donlan, Roy Dean, Simon Lack, Bill O'Connor, Linda Gray, Richard Littledale, Joan Blake, David Dulac, George Bradford - 16 photos); photo of HAMLET at Stratford (Paul Scofield, Anthony Quayle, Diana Wynyard, Noel Willman, John Kidd); portraits of Peter Cotes and Joan Miller, Sophie Tucker, Helen Hayes, Clive Brook and Brenda Bruce, Bruce Trent, Basil Sydney and Joyce Redman (in CRIME PASSIONEL), Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison, Juna Tremayne; portraits of Helen Hayes, Frances Heflin and Phil Brown (in THE GLASS MENAGERIE), Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, otherwise VG] £4
ThW/Oct 1948 (No.285): Scenes from THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Helen Hayes), DON'T LISTEN LADIES (Ferdy Mayne, Constance Cummings, Betty Marsden), OTHELLO and TROILUS AND CRESSIDA at Stratford (Godfrey Tearle, Paul Scofield), EDEN END (Angela Baddeley), CRIME PASSIONEL (Basil Sydney, Michael Gough, Joyce Redman) etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly tatty, else VG] £3
ThW/Nov 1948 (No.286): Scenes from PLAYBILL: The Browning Version & A Harlequinade(Eric Portman, Mary Ellis), TWELFTH NIGHT by the Old Vic Company (Cedric Hardwicke) etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Dec 1948 (No.287): Scenes from THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Edith Evans, Pauline Jameson, Harry Andrews, Faith Brook, Robert Eddison, Peter Copley, Mark Dignam, Mary Martlew, Penelope Munday, June Brown, Nigel Green - 17 photos), DON'T LISTEN LADIES! (Constance Cummings, Francis Lister, D.A.Mehan, Ada Reeve, Betty Marsden - 4 photos), THE PERFECT WOMAN (Sonnie Hale, Charles Heslop, Ellen Pollock - 7 photos), RAIN ON THE JUST (Marie Ney, Geoffrey Keene, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray - 9 photos), Features w.photos on Margaret Rutherford, the Leichner Lunch at the Savoy, and The Van (Italian Touring Company), Portrait of Gertrude Lawrence, The Story of the Royalty Theatre, Morecombe, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, else VG] £4
1949
ThW/Jan 1949 (No.288): Scenes from SLINGS AND ARROWS (Walter Crisham, Hermione Gingold, Wallas Eaton, Christopher Hewett, Gretchen Franklin, Diana Maddox - 17 photos), THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Edith Evans, Robert Eddison, Harry Andrews, Mark Dignam, Josephine Stuart, Cedric Hardwicke, Faith Brook, Peter Copley - 12 photos), THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL (John Gielgud, Nora Nicholson, Sybil Thorndike, Rachel Kempson, Walter Hudd - 3 photos), DON JUAN at Covent Garden (Robert Helpmann, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer), SELINA and CAPRIOL SUITE at Sadler's Wells (Elaine Fifield, David Gill, Michael Boulton, Patricia Miller), SIEGFRIED at Covent Garden (Set Svanholm), SIMON BOCCANEGRA at Sadler's Wells (Arnold Matters, Joyce Gartside, James Johnston) and review, Features (w.photos) on Hermione Gingold and John Gielgud, Portraits of Mai Zetterling, Pamela Brown, Paul Scofield, Myles Eason, and Jane Baxter, The Society for Theatre Research by George Devine, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; centre pages partly detached, spine worn, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Feb 1949 (No.289): Scenes from SEPTEMBER TIDE (Gertrude Lawence, Michael Gough, Anne Leon, Cyril Raymond, Dandy Nichols, Bryan Forbes - 21 photos), THE WILD DUCK (Fay Compton, Anton Walbrook, Robert Harris, Nigel Clarke, Miles Malleson, Mai Zetterling, Walter Fitzgerald - 10 photos), PETER PAN (Joan Hopkins, Judith Stott, George Curzon, Morland Graham, Jane Welsh, Derek Rock, Michael Cleveland - 7 photos), Portraits of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Peggy Ashcroft, Alicia Markova in CASSE NOISETTE, and Alexandra Danilova and Frederick Franklin, Features (w.photos) on Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Lawrence, London's 17th Century Theatreland, The Story of Drottningholm (w.3 photos), Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; spine slightly rubbed, else excellent] (£5) SOLD
ThW/Mch 1949 (No.290): Scenes from TRAVELLER'S JOY (Yvonne Arnaud, Arthur Macrae, Dora Bryan, Derek Aylward, Charles Victor, Helen Christie, Alexander Gauge - 18 photos), MISS MABEL (Mary Jerrold, Richard Warner, Clive Morton, Peter Murray - 8 photos), HIGH BUTTON SHOES (Hermene French, Sydney James, Kay Kimber, Michael Nicholls, Peter Felgate, Joan Heal, Jack Cooper - 13 photos), THE WAY BACK (Richard Attenborough - 3 photos), ORANGES AND LEMONS (Diana Churchill, Max Adrian, Rose Hill, Elisabeth Welch, Kenneth Connor, Charlotte Mitchell - 4 photos), Features (w.photos) on Diana Churchill and Sid Field, Portrait of Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson in THE HEIRESS, English Plays in Moscow, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
ThW/Apr 1949 (No.291): Scenes from ANTIGONE and THE PROPOSAL by the Old Vic Company (Viven Leigh, Laurence Olivier, George Cooper, George Relph, Terence Morgan, Thomas Heathcote, Peter Cushing, Peggy Simpson - 17 photos), ORANGES AND LEMONS (Diana Churchill, Max Adrian, Elisabeth Welch, Daphne Oxenford, Charlotte Mitchell - 9 photos), THE FOOLISH GENTLEWOMAN (Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Isabel Dean, Nigel Green - 3 photos), THE HUMAN TOUCH (Alec Guinness, Sophie Stewart, John Laurie - 2 photos), MISS JULIE (Joan Miller, Duncan Lamont, Ilona Ference), CINDERELLA at Covent Garden (Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant), The Season's Ballet (photos of Margot Fonteyn, Roland Petit, Ballets Negres, Moira Shearer), Photographic feature on Viven Leigh and Laurence Olivier (3 photos), Features (w.photos) on Peggy Ashcroft and Noel Langley, Portraits of Alexandra Danilova, Kay Hammond and John Clements, Angela Baddeley, and Rosalyn Boulter, Sheila Burrell, Judy Campbell, Joyce Barbour, and Margaret Lockwood, The International Theatre Institute, The Strindberg Centenary, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; very slightly rumpled, else VG] (£6) SOLD
ThW/May 1949 (No.292): Scenes from THE HEIRESS (Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Donald Sinden, James Donald - 21 photos), THE FOOLISH GENTLEWOMAN (Sybil Thorndike), A WOMAN'S PLACE (Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan), SUMMER IN DECEMBER (Irene Handl, Frank Lawton), portrait of Edith Evans, Echoes from Broadway, The Story of the Crescent Theatre Birmingham, Dinner with Danilova by Eric Johns, article on Peter Finch etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD
ThW/Jun 1949 (No.293): Scenes from DAPHNE LAUREOLA (Edith Evans, Peter Finch, Frank Pettingell, Felix Aylmer, Diana Graves, Kenneth Hyde, Anna Turner, Peter Williams - 20 photos), BELINDA FAIR (Adele Dixon, Jerry Verno, Daphne Anderson, Ferdy Mayne - 8 photos), BLACK CHIFFON (Flora Robson, Anthony Ireland, Rachel Gurney - 3 photos), ADVENTURE STORY (Paul Scofield, Raymond Westwell, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Flemyng, Nicholas Hannen, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Joy Parker - 3 photos), CARMEN and GIANNI SCHICCHI at Sadler's Wells (Anna Pollak, James Johnston, Edmund Donlevy - 2 photos), photo of Harry Andrews, Anthony Quayle and Diana Wynyard in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Stratford, Features (w.photos) on Peter Brook and Kay Hammond, Oberammergau 1950 (3 photos), Portraits of Danny Kaye, Claire Bloom, and Peter Ustinov, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Jul 1949 (No.294): Scenes from THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING (Pamela Brown, John Gielgud, Nora Nicholson, Claire Bloom, Richard Leech, Richard Burton, Harcourt Williams, Peter Bull, Esme Percy - 19 photos), ONE WILD OAT (Robertson Hare, Constance Lorne, Robert Morton, Arthur Riscoe, John Stone, Horace Sequeira - 15 photos), THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM (Robert Eddison, John Clements, Kay Hammond, Gwen Cherrell - 9 photos), photos of Adele Dixon in BELINDA FAIR, THE HEIRESS (Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Donald Sinden), and Sybil Thorndike in THE FOOLISH GENTLEWOMAN, Portrait of Henry Kendall, Features (w.photos) on Peter Cotes, Pamela Brown, The Bristol Old Vic, The British Theatre Exhibition, and the Marquis de Cuevas' Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo (Ethery Pagava, George Skibine, Rosella Hightower, Andre Eglevsky), Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Aug 1949 (No.295): Scenes from BLACK CHIFFON (Flora Robson, Wyndham Goldie, Rachel Gurney, Owen Holder, Anthony Ireland - 14 photos), ON MONDAY NEXT (Henry Kendall, Olga Lindo, Beryl Mason, Leslie Phillips, Richard Goolden - 12 photos), MACBETH, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, CYMBELINE, OTELLO, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Stratford (Diana Wynyard, Godfrey Tearle, Harry Andrews, Anthony Quayle, Clement McCallin, John Slater, Leon Quartermaine, Penelope Munday, Pat Sandys, George Rose, William Squire, Michael Gwynn, Michael Bates, Kathleen Michael, Wynne Clark - 22 photos), Portraits of Paul Muni, Cicely Courtneidge, and Sir Charles Cochran, Features (w.photos) on Flora Robson, The Malvern Festival, The Marquis de Cuevas' Ballet, Robert Rietty, The Beginnings of English Drama, Echoes From Broadway, reviews etc. [44pp, 5.9x8.75; light marks, else VG] £4
ThW/Sep 1949 (No.296): Scenes from LOVE IN ALBANIA (Peter Ustinov, Brenda Bruce, Robin Bailey, Peter Jones - 15 photos), YOUNG WIVES' TALE (Naunton Wayne, Joan Greenwood - 17 photos), HER EXCELLENCY (Cicely Courtneidge, Thorley Walters - 9 photos), Tribute to Ethel Barrymore by Emlyn Williams, Malvern Festival 1949, Echoes from Broadway, Article on Peter Ustinov, The Goethe Year in Germany, portrait of Siobhan McKenna etc. [44pp, 5.8x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Oct 1949 (No.297): Scenes from DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Paul Muni, Henry Oscar, Katharine Alexander, Kevin McCarthy - 19 photos), SUMMER'S DAY DREAM (Herbert Lomas, John Westbrook, Adrienne Corri), BRIGADOON (Phil Hanna, Hiram Sherman, Noele Gordon, Patricia Hughes), SAUCE TARTARE (Renee Houston, Claude Hulbert), Edinburgh Festival 1949, portrait of Michael Redgrave etc. [40pp, 5.8x8.75; VG] £4
ThW/Nov 1949 (No.298): Scenes from LOVE'S LABOURS LOST and SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER by the Old Vic Company (Michael Redgrave, Angela Baddeley), MASTER OF ARTS (Roland Culver), portrait of Vivien Leigh etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; VG] £5
ThW/Dec 1949 (No.299): Scenes from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Vivien Leigh, Bonar Colleano - 21 excellent photographs), article on STREETCAR, article on The Company of Four (review of the last two years w.15 production shots featuring Paul Scofield, Isabel Jeans etc.); portraits of Hermione Gingold, Hermione Baddeley, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson; scenes from TREASURE ISLAND, BLACK CHIFFON etc. [40pp, 5.9x8.75; spine rubbed, rumpled, otherwise VG] £4
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