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THE KENSINGTON NEWS AND WEST LONDON TIMES 3 Friday January 28th 1949 KINGS THEATRE Hr Has the unmistakable quality of a shrewdly written best Mannock DSily Herald HAMMERSMITH PHONE: RIV 5004 NEXT WEEK AT YOUR LOCAL CINEMA LOVE CONQUERS ALL! (r Evenings at 70 Mats Wed Thurs Sat at 20 CCC Productions Ltd present CLARKSON ROSE HERBERT WILCOX presents ANNA NEAGLE in her Greatest Performance 1 since VICTORIA THE GREAT as in his grand family pantomime "CINDERELLA This accent in this films absorbing story of a con-is on love Although considered servative judge who fights to save the most hackneyed theme in the his marriage with a younger wife world it crops up in most stories with Spencer Tracy Lana Turner sooner or later and Zachary Scott as its trio of Love enters into and makes principals emerges as a photoplay havoc of the life of Judge of dramatic integrity via the witness box The story moves from its open-Choosing a bride from other ing sequences of a typical court-side of the is a risky busi- room day in the life of Judge Tininess for a man of law but love berlane to mounting excitement "in remains the conqueror i his courtship of the temperamental An exciting love affair with a Jinny the clashes and reconcili-dashing gambler played by hand- ations of their married life the some Irishman Dermot Walsh is death of the baby that might have the lot of Glynis Johns in held them together and Time while an equally ultimate decision to run away with exciting romance between Van the dashing and persuasive Bradd Heflin and Susan Hayward has the and reaches its culminative pitch period of the American Civil War in the dramatic automobile acci-for background in dent which finally brings Jinny The theory that gentlemen pre- back to the Judge who finds life fer blondes may be tested on the without her unbearable spot by filmgoers seeing Lana The supporting film is a Laurel Turner 'in In and Hardy episode Raid one scene she is shown trying her- self out as brunette Elizabeth TAP ROOTS Barrett for an amateur production of Barretts of Wimpole Showing at the Gaumont Consequently Lanas niersrruth the Gaumont Chelsea fans may decide whether they an(j he Coronet Notting Hill Gate prefer her in dark tresses or her USBv Stanley Black unresthat followed8 thJ election ffi of Lincoln in the new United composed the music for States stars Van Heflin and Susan Time It is prophesied Hayward that the theme song Me! Van Heflin takes the part of a For will be a big newspaper publisher whose offices success For this number author xe burned down because he sup-Gerald Butler made his first essay ports independence of the Mississi- with Hilda Campbell-Russell Joan Burden Frank Lucy Loupe Celia Latymer Jotty Stunt The Hengler Bros Lil and Toni Ford The Graham Nelson Girls and Corps de Ballet Four Milk White Ponies The Four Clarkson Rosebuds The Sensational Speedacs Orchestra under thedirection of CharlesTovey LEADING LAUGHTER SHOW! Show which has all the glitter demanded daily telegraph Prices 16 to 86 Book your seats well in advance CONCERTGOERS DIARY Solomon Concert Solomon will be the soloist in Schumann's Pianoforte Concerto in A minor at the BBC Symphony Orchestra Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 2nd Fe-ruary The programme will also include Symphonic Variations Introduction and Allegro for Strings and Vaughan Symphony No 6 in minor The conductor will be Sir Malcolm Sargent London Musical Club A concert by Tessa Tongi (soprano) and Dr Willie Salaman (piano) will be given at the London Musical Club 21 Holland Park Wll at 315 pm on Sunday 30th January On Saturday evening at 815 pm there will be a concert by Owen Bryngwyn (baritone) and Hywell Hughes (piano) Boy Conductor Eleven-year-old Pierino Gamba the Italian boy conductor will appear with the Philharmonia Orches tra at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 28th January and Monday 31st January at 730 pm On Friday he will conduct a Beethoven programme including the Egmont Overture Symphony No 1 in major and Symphony No 5 in minor On Monday the programme will consist of the William Tell Overture (Rossini) Unfinished Symphony (No 8 in minor) and New World Symphony (No 5 in minor) A Popular Pianist Eileen Joyce one of -the most popular pianists in Britain today will play Concerto No 2 and Prokofieff Concerto No 3 at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday next The programme which is given by the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind begins at 7 pm It includes Symphony No 4 (Dvorak) WITH HUGH WIUMMS in LOVELY TECHNICOLOR A BRITISH LION RELEASE THEATRE Usual Prices 76 66 5- 36 26 MONDAY FEB 7 FOR SIX DAYS QUEENS BROADWAY COMMODORE FORUM Bayswater Hammersmith Fulham Tuesday to Friday 745 Mat Thursday 230 Saturday 515 and 8 Sunday Club (Members only) 515 and 8 RIV 6120 KEN 5234 BAY 4149 RIV 28 9 6 Tuesday February 1st to Sunday February 6th WALTER Lancashire Comedy THE CURE FOR LOVE THIS WEEK ALL MY SONS Why do the works look worried? the Union part of the with the fight put Confederates it also of the publisher of a Southern Hayward) and of his Officer (Whitfield plays a Choctaw loyal in the Mississippi independence filmed in Technicolor Embassy Cinema for three days February Elissa Landi co-star romantic drama THIS DAY Embassy Cinema for four days January (Mark Stevens) is his discharge from visits an employment about a job as operator His lovely Fontaine) is going As Bill completes his mind goes he asked Susan to into lyric writing In the film it is sung by Edna Kaye Stanley wife THIRD TIME LUCKY Showing at the Odeon Kensington the Royalty Ladbroke Grove the Regals Hammersmith and Walham Green Glynis Johns and Dermot Walsh are the stars of the exciting gambling story Time Girl meets boy under thrilling circumstances Dermot Walsh borrows the running board of Glynis taxi to escape three pursuers He escapes but leaves Iris wallet behind and his handsome face etched on the heart of the young lady She discovers that he is a gambler and sees a chance to be with him more often in a suggestion that she becomes his lucky mascot He offers her a share in his winnings But luck changes and things go from bad to worse until the gambler is shot Only then does he admit that his means much more to him than a business arrangement She is overjoyed having fallen in love with him from the start Realising how much she means to him the gambler promises that he will take no more chances CASS TIMBERLANE Showing at the Queens Bayswater the Broadway and the marry him in 1937 ppi Valley from Although a great film is concerned up against the tells of the love for the daughter family (Susan rival a Confederate Connor) Boris Karloff Indian who remains support of is KOENIGSMARK Showing at the Notting Hill Gate from Thursday 3rd John Lodge and in the historical Koenigsmark FROM FORWARD Showing at the Notting Hill Gate from Sunday 30th Bill Cummings about to obtain the Services He office to inquire a turret lathe wife Susan (Joan to have baby his form in the office back to the day TOWN HALL KENSINGTON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 9 at 730 The Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington present KATHLEEN PERRIER (Contralto) ROY HENDERSON (baritone) At the Piano PHYLLIS SPIJRR Group of Songs for Contralto Baritone by Purcell arr Benjamin Britten KATHLEEN FERRIER ROY HENDERSON Group of Songs by Schubert ROY HENDERSON Four Serious Songs (Brahms) KATHLEEN FERRIER Songs for Contralto Baritone by Parry Stanford John Ireland Peter Warlock Armstrong Gibbs KATHLEEN FERRIER ROY HENDERSON TICKETS 76 5- 2 6 all bookable in advance from Town Hall (WES 7211) usual ticket offices and IBBS TILLETT Ltd 124 Wigmore Street I (Wei 8418) Light refreshments obtainable before the concert and during the interval LOCAL FAMILIES COULD HELP MORE IN THE DANGER HOURS Need Not Happen to Says Kensington Authoress Mary Bendetta BBC scriptwriter and authoress who was bound and gagged by robbers in her Kensington flat last summer has turned this unfortunate experience into material for a useful article on burglary precautions for housewives The article Need Not Happen to will appear in the February issue of the Magazine In it Miss Bendetta explains what precautions she is taking to guard against any further intruders and advises all housewives to take similar precautions advice which is worth following One has only to read the daily papers to realise the number of burglaries which take place daily i in this country and how few housewives take adequate precau- tions to guard against this risk CHELSEA TOWN HALL Must we expect electricity cuts this winter Yes if not careful But if everybody really pulls together we should just about manage to avoid the cuts That is why industrial works shops offices and all other big users are cutting consumption right down and spreading the load It be their fault if the lights go out But some of us can do still better at home Some families must do better to avoid electricity cuts and all the trouble they cause Every family can help Switch off electric water-heaters before 8 am and use only one bar of your electric fire in the danger hours leave it to the folk next door all join in Commodore Hammersmith the i Forum Fulham Road The story is told in retrospect over the past ten years through the Sinclair 1 war to the present day THEATRE NOTES PUBLIC NOTICE Monday Next January 31st at 730 Boyd Neel Concert Society presents PHILHARMONIA QUARTET Maurice Clare (Violin) Herbert Downes (Viola) Ernest Element (Violin) William Pleeth (Cello) LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (GENERAL DEVELOPMENT) ORDER 1948 60 EASY with Schubert William Walton Beethoven Quartet (Death and the Maiden) Quartet in A minor Quartet in iiat Op 127 in tire DAN61R HOURS (MONDAY TO FRIDAY) TICKETS 86 5- 3- from usual Agents and IBBS TILLETT Ltd 124 Wigmore Street I (Wei 8418) Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power MAPLES JANUARY Direction made by the London County Council under Article 4 Notice is hereby given that the London County Council has with the approval of the Minister of Town and Country Planning issued a Direction dated the ninth day of November 1948 prohibiting any development of the description set out in the Schedule hereto on the lands known as Numbers 74-82 (even numbers inclusive) Sil-chester Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington unless permission therefor is granted on application made in that behalf under the Town and Country Planning (General Development) Order 1948 A copy of the said Direction and of the map defining the lands to which it relates may be seen during the usual office hours at Room 500a Hie County Hall Westminster Bridge London SEl and at the Town Hall Kensington High Street Kensington And Notice is hereby given that the said Direction will come into force orr the twenty-eighth day of January 1949 (54) THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO The rebuilding restoration or replacement except in the case of emergency of buildings works or plants which have sustained war damage being development comprised within Class XI referred to in the First Schedule to the above-mentioned Order and not being development of any other Class Dated this eighteenth day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine Howard Roberts Clerk of the Council The County Hall Westminster Bridge London SEl in the precincts of Mallowhurst Public School It tells the story of a young prefect entering manhood and his struggle to cope with emotions he cannot satisfy or comprehend Leslie Phillips plays Young Woodley with a cast including Gwen Vaughan Andrew Laurence Robert Desmond Ron Rousell Alan Bromley and Yolande Toh Audiences at the Granville have not been deterred by the slight increase in admission prices Mr Maxwell tells of many kind letters received from patrons One he says writes that the increase is well worth it and adds if it went up several more tanners we would still be Individually sixpence has little value today but added to box-office receipts it is a considerable help to the company THEATRE On Tuesday 1st February at the Theatre Jack de Leon is presenting Walter delightful Lancashire comedy The Cure for The play is set in Mrs kitchen complete with Lancashire hot-pot and in the bar of the Flying Shuttle It tells of Sergeant Jack Hardacre who became a soldier fought his way from Alamein to Italy and after three years to the accompaniment of the local band from the station to his spotless home There he falls in love with Millie Southern a forthright Cockney firl from Tooting but does not know ow to break off with the tenacious girl friend of the past THE NEW LINDSEY Under the direction of Chloe Gibson the English premiere of Philip play of vaudeville life Here Come the Clowns opens next Monday 31st January at the New Lindsey Theatre Notting Hill Gate The cast is headed by Denis Carey and Olaf Pooley together with Maureen Pryor Gillian Maude Henry Worthington Edward Platt Campbell Gray Alison Cumming Lyndon Brook Lilian Ellis Joyce Appleton and Bill Davies Ron Parry well known in the music halls plays a ventriloquist and Kenneth Garoghan the important role of Major Armstrong the dwarf The decor is by Richard Lake i Here Come the Clowns is to be followed at the New Lindsey by a i new English play The Compelled People by Lionel Birch and Lorna Hay THE LYRIC THEATRE HAMMERSMITH Damask a comedy by John Van Druten and Lloyd Morris which was staged in New York in 1942 but has not hitherto been presented in this country is the next Company of Four attraction at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith where it opens on Wednesday February 2nd Damask which is set in New York in 1909 is full of the charm and deft touches of humour which characterised Van Only and Remember which has recently been seen both as a play and a film The central character of Damask is Rlioda Meldrum a 30-year-old English girl on a visit to an aunt who hopes she will find herself a husband The part of Rhoda played in New York by Flora Robson is taken by Jane Baxter whose recent appearances in the West End have been in the Sun and the Old and she acted opposite John Gielgud in his New York production of Importance of Being The role of her aunt in the play will be taken by Iris Hoey well known in London and New York as a musical comedy and revue star before she turned her attention to the theatre and who from 1943-45 played one of the leading roles in String and Sealing Bill Travers specially released from the current Me a is Jimmy and Richard Leech the young Irish actor who has given such outstanding performances recently in My and is Neil Others in the cast are Patricia Rane Binnie talented daughter Claire Bloom the Ophelia of the 1948 Stratford-on-Avon season David last seen as a child actor in the Joan Lang and Kathleen Williams The director is Daphne Rye and William Chappell has done the decor THE GRANVILLE At the Granville Walham Green next week commencing Monday 31st Janaury Allan Maxwell revives a play which although written more than twenty years ago still points a moral The action in Woodley bv John van Druten takes place FURNITURE FURNISHINGS Deferred Terms the Best Obtainable LEGAL NOTICE Jennings nee Urban The kin of Edith Jennings nee Urban widow late of 126 Ifield Road Kensington SW10 who died there on 12th October 1940 are requested to apply to the Treasury Solicitor (BV) Gate London SWl (Estate about £120) MAPLE CO LTD TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD LONDON 1 Opposite WARREN STREET TUBE EUSTON SQUARE STATIONS cimic fl.