Gone to Earth by Mary Webb, Players theatre, Beatrix as the heroine (Now that I would have LOVED to have seen) Swanage Rep company
Thursday, Jun 11, 1931
Late night final by Louis Wiezenkorn at the Phoenix Theatre
26 speaking parts
Late night final by Louis Wiezenkorn at the Phoenix Theatre
Luella Carmody (listed 11th)
Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s reporter was a hard, fierce sketch
Thursday, Apr 20, 1933;
Sutton Vane’s play Overture
Monday, May 22, 1933
Wild Decembers by Miss Clemence Dane (about the Bronte’s)
Beatrix as Emily (of course!)
Thursday, Aug 17, 1933, Wednesday, Aug 23, 1933 Saturday, Aug 26, 1933 Friday, Sep 01, 1933 Tuesday, Sep 05, 1933; Thursday, Sep 07, 1933 Wednesday, Sep 13, 1933 Friday, Sep 15, 1933; Saturday, Sep 16, 1933 Tuesday, Sep 19, 1933 Wednesday, Sep 20, 1933 Saturday, Sep 23, 1933; Tuesday, Sep 26, 1933 Saturday, Sep 30, 1933 Monday, Oct 02, 1933 Wednesday, Oct 04, 1933 Friday, Oct 06, 1933 Monday, Oct 16, 1933;
Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s reporter was a hard, fierce sketch
Sutton Vane’s play Overture
Wild Decembers by Miss Clemence Dane (about the Bronte’s)
Beatrix as Emily (of course!)
The Wandering Jew at the Princes theatre
Thursday, Oct 19, 1933;
The Tudor Wench – Embassy Theatre (Programme seen at Bristol)
Playing Elizabeth R (as a girl even though Peggy’s in her 30s!)
Monday, Oct 23, 1933 Tuesday, Oct 24, 1933;
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1933; (Includes cast photo which is GORGEOUS) Wednesday, Nov 01, 1933 Saturday, Nov 04, 1933 Wednesday, Nov 08, 1933 Saturday, Nov 11, 1933
Tudor Wench – Embassy Theatre
Thursday, Nov 16, 1933
Tudor wench – Embassy Theatre ad with reviews
Tonight, 8.30, mats weds sats
The Tudor Wench by Elswyth Thane
Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s mingling of hardness and tenderness of ambition and romanticism always seems perfectly right – the times (though review didn’t come up in search)
A play of high interest and a performance by Miss Beatrix Lehmann's of race perception and authentic power – the observer
It was a magnificent part for Beatrix Lehmann and magnificently she played it – evening standard
This interesting play should be transferred to the west End – Sunday express…
(and more saying it should transfer)
Friday, Nov 17, 1933;
Alhambra Theatre – The Tudor wench – Elizabeth
“This story of the girlhood of Queen Elizabeth presented a few weeks ago for a short season at the Embassy theatre clearly deserved to be given a fresh chance on a more central stage. If there had been no other reason Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s portrait of the Princess would have sufficed. In this vigorous and perceptive performance are suggestions of many of those qualities, male courage, female evasiveness, strength, cunning, grace and dignity – which even modern biographers can reconcile only with difficulty, so that watching ML we are persuaded no merely by the facial likeness, which is always striking, but by her general attitude to life that this is the kind of girl Elizabeth must have been. … at the end we are tempted to believe that ML has imposed her portrait on the text of the play itself. If indeed she has, it is a piece of great good fortune for the author. … Awkward thought the transition may be, it enable ML to show us Elizabeth turning from a romance that failed her and from the scatterbrained conspiracies of Seymour and his followers to grope for a vision of an England given greatness under her own rule.
All dates taken from articles in the Times that mention Beatrix Lehamann
Friday, Nov 17, 1933
Alhambra – The Tudor Wench -
Saturday, Nov 18, 1933;
The Tudor Wench – Embassy Theatre (Programme seen at Bristol)
Playing Elizabeth R (as a girl even though Peggy’s in her 30s!)
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1933; (Includes cast photo which is GORGEOUS) Wednesday, Nov 01, 1933 Saturday, Nov 04, 1933 Wednesday, Nov 08, 1933 Saturday, Nov 11, 1933
Tudor Wench – Embassy Theatre
Tudor wench – Embassy Theatre ad with reviews
Tonight, 8.30, mats weds sats
The Tudor Wench by Elswyth Thane
Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s mingling of hardness and tenderness of ambition and romanticism always seems perfectly right – the times (though review didn’t come up in search)
A play of high interest and a performance by Miss Beatrix Lehmann's of race perception and authentic power – the observer
It was a magnificent part for Beatrix Lehmann and magnificently she played it – evening standard
This interesting play should be transferred to the west End – Sunday express…
(and more saying it should transfer)
Alhambra Theatre – The Tudor wench – Elizabeth
“This story of the girlhood of Queen Elizabeth presented a few weeks ago for a short season at the Embassy theatre clearly deserved to be given a fresh chance on a more central stage. If there had been no other reason Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s portrait of the Princess would have sufficed. In this vigorous and perceptive performance are suggestions of many of those qualities, male courage, female evasiveness, strength, cunning, grace and dignity – which even modern biographers can reconcile only with difficulty, so that watching ML we are persuaded no merely by the facial likeness, which is always striking, but by her general attitude to life that this is the kind of girl Elizabeth must have been. … at the end we are tempted to believe that ML has imposed her portrait on the text of the play itself. If indeed she has, it is a piece of great good fortune for the author. … Awkward thought the transition may be, it enable ML to show us Elizabeth turning from a romance that failed her and from the scatterbrained conspiracies of Seymour and his followers to grope for a vision of an England given greatness under her own rule.
Friday, Nov 17, 1933
Alhambra – The Tudor Wench -
Saturday, Nov 18, 1933;
Alhambra – The Tudor Wench (ad with reviews)
" Watching Miss Lehmann we are persuaded not merely by the
facial likeness, whichi s always striking, but by her general attitude to life
that this is the kind of girl Elizabeth
must have been – the Times
Tuesday, Nov 21, 1933 Wednesday, Nov 22, 1933;
Thursday, Nov 23, 1933 Saturday, Nov 25, 1933 Monday, Nov 27, 1933; Thursday, Nov 30, 1933 Friday, Dec 01, 1933 Saturday, Dec 02, 1933 Monday, Dec 04, 1933 Tuesday, Dec 05, 1933; Wednesday, Dec 06, 1933 Thursday, Dec 07, 1933 Friday, Dec 08, 1933 Saturday, Dec 09, 1933
Monday, Dec 11, 1933
Alhambra – The Tudor Wench - ad
Tuesday, Jan 30, 1934
Wild Decembers a play about the Brontes (Emily) Broadcast on the radio
Monday, Feb 12, 1934;
Cambridge theatre present Success story by John Howard Lawson about American big business,
Is the sensitive performance of Beatrix Lehmann as the young Elizabeth which gives the production its
quality – daily telegraph
Miss Beatrix Lehmann repeats her brilliant performance as
Elizabeth, princess of England . – morning post
Beatrix Lehmann as Elizabeth
displays tenderness and romanticism a really thrilling duel adds to the
interest of the play – daily mirror
Miss Lehmann’s fine acting, the exciting due and Mr Derrick
de Marney’s graceful performance deserve as wide an audience as they can get –
evening news
Thursday, Nov 23, 1933 Saturday, Nov 25, 1933 Monday, Nov 27, 1933; Thursday, Nov 30, 1933 Friday, Dec 01, 1933 Saturday, Dec 02, 1933 Monday, Dec 04, 1933 Tuesday, Dec 05, 1933; Wednesday, Dec 06, 1933 Thursday, Dec 07, 1933 Friday, Dec 08, 1933 Saturday, Dec 09, 1933
Monday, Dec 11, 1933
Alhambra – The Tudor Wench - ad
Wild Decembers a play about the Brontes (Emily) Broadcast on the radio
Monday, Feb 12, 1934;
Cambridge theatre present Success story by John Howard Lawson about American big business,
Beatrix only new member in cast from Fulham Shilling Theatre
Tuesday, Feb 13, 1934 Wednesday, Feb 14, 1934 Thursday, Feb 15, 1934;
Success story – despite other article saying different actresses had the lead Beatrix is given 2nd billing showing her draw
Friday, Feb 16, 1934
Cambridge Theatre – Success story review
Sarah Glassman – top billing
Passion, Marxism and wall street
Miss Beatrix Lehmann the nice restraint proper to the least talkative and most human person in the piece
Friday, Feb 16, 1934 Thursday, Feb 22, 1934 Friday, Feb 23, 1934 Saturday, Feb 24, 1934 Wednesday, Feb 28, 1934; Friday, Mar 02, 1934
Cambridge Theatre – Success story
Thursday, Apr 26, 1934
Ibsen’s play The Master Builder transferred to the Embassy, Only newcomer to the cast will be MissBeatrix Lehmann who will succeed Miss Margaret Webster in the part of Hilde Wangel.
Monday, Apr 30, 1934 Monday, May 07, 1934 Tuesday, May 08, 1934 Friday, May 11, 1934 Saturday, May 12, 1934
Ibsen’s the Master Builder ad
Beatrix gets top billing! (again)
Monday, Jul 16, 1934
J.B. Priestly’s new play Eden End at the Duchess Theatre from September 13, Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be in the cast, The action of the piece takes place in 1912.
Monday, Sep 10, 1934
Duchess Theatre Eden End – Duchess ad
Tuesday, Feb 13, 1934 Wednesday, Feb 14, 1934 Thursday, Feb 15, 1934;
Success story – despite other article saying different actresses had the lead Beatrix is given 2nd billing showing her draw
Friday, Feb 16, 1934
Cambridge Theatre – Success story review
Sarah Glassman – top billing
Passion, Marxism and wall street
Miss Beatrix Lehmann the nice restraint proper to the least talkative and most human person in the piece
Friday, Feb 16, 1934 Thursday, Feb 22, 1934 Friday, Feb 23, 1934 Saturday, Feb 24, 1934 Wednesday, Feb 28, 1934; Friday, Mar 02, 1934
Cambridge Theatre – Success story
Ibsen’s play The Master Builder transferred to the Embassy, Only newcomer to the cast will be MissBeatrix Lehmann who will succeed Miss Margaret Webster in the part of Hilde Wangel.
Ibsen’s the Master Builder ad
Beatrix gets top billing! (again)
J.B. Priestly’s new play Eden End at the Duchess Theatre from September 13, Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be in the cast, The action of the piece takes place in 1912.
Duchess Theatre Eden End – Duchess ad
Friday, Sep 14, 1934
Duchess Theatre – Eden End – review
Beatrix 5th as Stella Kirby – a prodigal sister who ran away some years ago to be an actress and has failed, discussions, a little drunkenness ... her husband with a pale flicker of dead romance are on the road again.
Miss Beatrix Lehmann seems to be arguing her way towards a climax that does not come. (closest thing to criticism in any of her reviews)
Friday, Sep 14, 1934
Duchess Theatre Eden End ad (2nd billing)
Wednesday, Sep 19, 1934 Thursday, Sep 20, 1934 Friday, Sep 21, 1934 Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Duchess Theatre Eden End (with ads just all for author of play)
Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Daly’s Theatre – Green Room Rag (on 23)
12 series of these charitable entertainments, It’s shortcomings, however, which were mainly due to the understandable defect of under-rehearsal, were offset by some brilliancies. Among these first place must be given to E.F. Watling’s sketch French as she is learnt, the author has neatly adapted the demure language of the travellers phrasebook to the treatment of a scene of illicit passion. And Mr Edward Chapman, Miss Beatrix Lehmann, Mr Ralph Richardson and Miss Margaret Yarde have captured the precise shade of dress, gesture and intonation that may be supposed to be natural to the natives of phrasebook land.
Tuesday, Sep 25, 1934 Wednesday, Sep 26, 1934 Thursday, Sep 27, 1934; Friday, Sep 28, 1934 Saturday, Sep 29, 1934; Monday, Oct 01, 1934 Thursday, Oct 04, 1934 Saturday, Oct 06, 1934 Monday, Oct 08, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 09, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 10, 1934 Thursday, Oct 11, 1934 Friday, Oct 12, 1934 Saturday, Oct 13, 1934 Monday, Oct 15, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 16, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 17, 1934 Saturday, Oct 20, 1934 Monday, Oct 22, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 23, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 24, 1934; Friday, Oct 26, 1934 Saturday, Oct 27, 1934 Monday, Oct 29, 1934 Friday, Nov 02, 1934 Saturday, Nov 03, 1934 Monday, Nov 05, 1934 Tuesday, Nov 06, 1934 Thursday, Nov 08, 1934; Friday, Nov 09, 1934 Monday, Nov 12, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 14, 1934 Thursday, Nov 15, 1934 Friday, Nov 16, 1934 Saturday, Nov 17, 1934 Monday, Nov 19, 1934 Tuesday, Nov 20, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 21, 1934 Friday, Nov 23, 1934 Saturday, Nov 24, 1934 Monday, Nov 26, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 28, 1934 Thursday, Nov 29, 1934 Friday, Nov 30, 1934 Saturday, Dec 01, 1934 Friday, Dec 07, 1934 Saturday, Dec 08, 1934 Monday, Dec 10, 1934 Tuesday, Dec 11, 1934 Wednesday, Dec 12, 1934 Thursday, Dec 13, 1934 Monday, Dec 17, 1934 Tuesday, Dec 18, 1934 Wednesday, Dec 19, 1934 Thursday, Dec 20, 1934 Saturday, Dec 22, 1934 Monday, Dec 24, 1934 Thursday, Dec 27, 1934; Friday, Dec 28, 1934 Saturday, Dec 29, 1934 Tuesday, Jan 01, 1935 Thursday, Jan 03, 1935 Friday, Jan 04, 1935 Monday, Jan 07, 1935 Tuesday, Jan 08, 1935 Wednesday, Jan 09, 1935 (last notice) (ran Sept 1934-Jan 1935)
Duchess Theatre – Eden End
Friday, Aug 16, 1935;
On radio in Pleasant portion
Thursday, Feb 06, 1936
Various heavens a new play by Mr Hugh Ross Williamson at the Gate
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will return to the stage in .. Her part will be that of a woman in her 30s faced with the conflicting claims of a lover several years younger than herself, her religion and her work.
Monday, Feb 10, 1936
Gate – Various Heavens, Miss Beatrix Lehamnn will have the leading part in VH a new play by Mr Hugh Ross Williamson
Thursday, Feb 13, 1936
The Gate Theatre- Various Heavens – review
Beatrice plays Musgrave
Argues in the 3rd act that Beatrice should enter a religious community rather than re-accept her lover. His objection is that adultery is conter to her nature, Clearly an intelligently drawn, .. an attempt to present and discuss. A subject with which men and women outside the theatre are concerned.
The woman whose life is the key is no puppet, she is complex, persuasive and alive, and Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s portrayal of her, which most carefully and rightly avoids conventional display, is a genuinely revealing and progressive interpretation of her mind. … the play is enable to stand by its basic sincerity and by Miss Lehmann’s shrewd and subtle portraiture.
Thursday, Oct 22, 1936
Q Theatre Charlotte Corday in the French revolution,
Tuesday, Oct 27, 1936 - review
Q Theatre – Charlotte Corday
Role Charlotte Corday
The adventure of Charlotte Corday in assassinating Marat,
Miss Beatrix Lehmann with high intelligence and remarkable restraint gives life to Charlotte Corday within the limits that the dramatist has set. But the play leaves an impression of bareness and crudity, partly because Mr. Klein, in his treatment of the character, is more interested in labels than in analysis, but chiefly because the anecdote is less suited to naturalistic treatment…
Play of a witch and a devil and a man’s bigamous marriage
Monday, Dec 07, 1936 Tuesday, Dec 08, 1936
Old Vic – Witch of Edmonton ad (2nd Billing)
Wednesday, Dec 09, 1936 – review
Old Vic The witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker,
Winifred (2nd wife) – Beatrix Lehmann
It is stamped with sympathy for the outcast and suffering and is able to see always two sides of the human picture – even when the pictures is a villain or a witch… There are two stories connected by the most slender of links, one of Frank Thorney who marries two wives and murders the second; another of Mother Sawyer who sells her soul to the devil in retuf for power, as a witch, to be avenged on her enemies. The devil appears in the form of a gigantic water Spaniel. …
Miss Beatrix Lehmann plays an awkwardly confused part with a successful determination to give it a clear outline
Saturday, Dec 12, 1936; Wednesday, Dec 16, 1936; Thursday, Dec 17, 1936 Saturday, Dec 19, 1936 Tuesday, Dec 22, 1936; Wednesday, Dec 23, 1936; Tuesday, Dec 29, 1936
Old Vic Witch of Edmonton – ad
Thursday, Feb 18, 1937
Upcoming play First night with Beatrix Lehmann at the Arts Theatre
Friday, Mar 12, 1937
London Television, Alexandra Palace, Scenes from Twelfth night
Wednesday, Jul 07, 1937
Embassy theatre Up the garden path by Ireland Wood from a story by Richmal Crompton
Catherine Deveral, Beatrix Lehmann (listed last)
“old maids and odd women”… For the actor as well as the author there are more difficult and serious qualities to represent but both Miss Patricia Hiliard and MBL greatly assisted the author in keeping their characters well within their doll’s house and tactful polite or pleasing even in their criticism of it.”
Monday, Oct 18, 1937; Programme bought
Westminster theatre Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’neill – Westminister theatre leading part to Beatrix Lehmann
Thursday, Nov 11, 1937
Westminster theatre Mourning becomes Electra – recently opened mention
Tuesday, Nov 16, 1937 Thursday, Nov 18, 1937
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra – ad (2nd billing)
Saturday, Nov 20, 1937 – review
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra by Eugene O’neill
Lavinia – Beatrix Lehmann
Tale of the Mannon family who live in New England in 1865…how the daughter Lavinia using her brother Orin as her instrument pursued Christine to her death and how at last Lavinia and Orin, haunted by their own guilt and possessed by the spirits of their dead mother and father, were driven into fearful loves and hates, Orin to die by his own hand, Lavinia to live on alone in the house of their doom…
Miss Beatrix Lehmann through Lavinia wear her mother’s dress, cannot grow into a resemblance of Miss Laura Vowie, but by her and by the whole Mannon tribe the difficulty is courageously faced. The perpetuation of an evil and pervasive spirit is communicated… MBL’s performance is a temptation to write an essay, so elaborate is it, so finished in detail, and yet so firmly simple in its outline. There are passages in which it is physically a trifle to rigid; the stiffness of body is intended and has reason behind it, but is carried too far. In all else ML’s study of the beating down of this determined girl by fate – a fate that dwells in her own blood – is of the highest rank. There is a terrible darkness behind its flame, and when the flame is quenced or hidden, it burns by its iciness.
Monday, Nov 22, 1937 Wednesday, Nov 24, 1937 Thursday, Nov 25, 1937; Saturday, Nov 27, 1937 Monday, Nov 29, 1937; Tuesday, Nov 30, 1937 Wednesday, Dec 01, 1937 Thursday, Dec 02, 1937; Friday, Dec 03, 1937 Saturday, Dec 04, 1937 Monday, Dec 06, 1937
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra – ad (2nd)
Saturday, Jan 01, 1938 –
The Theatre – summation of the previous theatrical year
“Several theatrical reputations have been greatly advanced… Miss Beatrix Lehmann gave a memorable performance with Mr Robert Harris in the O’Neill.
Thursday, Jan 20, 1938
New Theatre (transfer) Mourning becomes Electra - review
The central character, moreover, is not Aeschylus. Mr. O’Neill has concentrated the whole responsibility for the accumulated heritage of pelopid hate, not upon Orestes, but upon Electra, a terrible creation of ice and gall, superbly played by MBL. Where the torment of Orestes in the original proceeds from the pagan idea of pollution, here that of Electra, or Lavinia, derives from the sense of moral guilt and is intensified by the thought that the ineluctable punishment is perpetuation of the sin… In its English representation there is fine acting by Miss Laura Cowie and Mr Robert Harris, while that of Miss Lehmann is of the highest order of brilliance(!)
Monday, Jan 24, 1938
Photo from Mourning becomes Electra looking STUNNING
Saturday, Jan 29, 1938;
New Theatre - Mourning becomes Electra – ad 2nd billing
Thursday, Feb 17, 1938
Upcoming - Miss Rosamund Lehmann has dramatised her novel, no more music and the stage version will be presented at the London International Theatre Club at the Duke of York Theatre on Sunday week and two following Sundays. Miss Beatrix Lehmann who is at present appearing in Mr Eugene O’neills ... Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be seen in the leading part in her sister’s play,
Duchess Theatre – Eden End – review
Beatrix 5th as Stella Kirby – a prodigal sister who ran away some years ago to be an actress and has failed, discussions, a little drunkenness ... her husband with a pale flicker of dead romance are on the road again.
Miss Beatrix Lehmann seems to be arguing her way towards a climax that does not come. (closest thing to criticism in any of her reviews)
Friday, Sep 14, 1934
Duchess Theatre Eden End ad (2nd billing)
Wednesday, Sep 19, 1934 Thursday, Sep 20, 1934 Friday, Sep 21, 1934 Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Duchess Theatre Eden End (with ads just all for author of play)
Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Daly’s Theatre – Green Room Rag (on 23)
12 series of these charitable entertainments, It’s shortcomings, however, which were mainly due to the understandable defect of under-rehearsal, were offset by some brilliancies. Among these first place must be given to E.F. Watling’s sketch French as she is learnt, the author has neatly adapted the demure language of the travellers phrasebook to the treatment of a scene of illicit passion. And Mr Edward Chapman, Miss Beatrix Lehmann, Mr Ralph Richardson and Miss Margaret Yarde have captured the precise shade of dress, gesture and intonation that may be supposed to be natural to the natives of phrasebook land.
Tuesday, Sep 25, 1934 Wednesday, Sep 26, 1934 Thursday, Sep 27, 1934; Friday, Sep 28, 1934 Saturday, Sep 29, 1934; Monday, Oct 01, 1934 Thursday, Oct 04, 1934 Saturday, Oct 06, 1934 Monday, Oct 08, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 09, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 10, 1934 Thursday, Oct 11, 1934 Friday, Oct 12, 1934 Saturday, Oct 13, 1934 Monday, Oct 15, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 16, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 17, 1934 Saturday, Oct 20, 1934 Monday, Oct 22, 1934 Tuesday, Oct 23, 1934 Wednesday, Oct 24, 1934; Friday, Oct 26, 1934 Saturday, Oct 27, 1934 Monday, Oct 29, 1934 Friday, Nov 02, 1934 Saturday, Nov 03, 1934 Monday, Nov 05, 1934 Tuesday, Nov 06, 1934 Thursday, Nov 08, 1934; Friday, Nov 09, 1934 Monday, Nov 12, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 14, 1934 Thursday, Nov 15, 1934 Friday, Nov 16, 1934 Saturday, Nov 17, 1934 Monday, Nov 19, 1934 Tuesday, Nov 20, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 21, 1934 Friday, Nov 23, 1934 Saturday, Nov 24, 1934 Monday, Nov 26, 1934 Wednesday, Nov 28, 1934 Thursday, Nov 29, 1934 Friday, Nov 30, 1934 Saturday, Dec 01, 1934 Friday, Dec 07, 1934 Saturday, Dec 08, 1934 Monday, Dec 10, 1934 Tuesday, Dec 11, 1934 Wednesday, Dec 12, 1934 Thursday, Dec 13, 1934 Monday, Dec 17, 1934 Tuesday, Dec 18, 1934 Wednesday, Dec 19, 1934 Thursday, Dec 20, 1934 Saturday, Dec 22, 1934 Monday, Dec 24, 1934 Thursday, Dec 27, 1934; Friday, Dec 28, 1934 Saturday, Dec 29, 1934 Tuesday, Jan 01, 1935 Thursday, Jan 03, 1935 Friday, Jan 04, 1935 Monday, Jan 07, 1935 Tuesday, Jan 08, 1935 Wednesday, Jan 09, 1935 (last notice) (ran Sept 1934-Jan 1935)
Duchess Theatre – Eden End
Friday, Aug 16, 1935;
On radio in Pleasant portion
Thursday, Feb 06, 1936
Various heavens a new play by Mr Hugh Ross Williamson at the Gate
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will return to the stage in .. Her part will be that of a woman in her 30s faced with the conflicting claims of a lover several years younger than herself, her religion and her work.
Gate – Various Heavens, Miss Beatrix Lehamnn will have the leading part in VH a new play by Mr Hugh Ross Williamson
The Gate Theatre- Various Heavens – review
Beatrice plays Musgrave
Argues in the 3rd act that Beatrice should enter a religious community rather than re-accept her lover. His objection is that adultery is conter to her nature, Clearly an intelligently drawn, .. an attempt to present and discuss. A subject with which men and women outside the theatre are concerned.
The woman whose life is the key is no puppet, she is complex, persuasive and alive, and Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s portrayal of her, which most carefully and rightly avoids conventional display, is a genuinely revealing and progressive interpretation of her mind. … the play is enable to stand by its basic sincerity and by Miss Lehmann’s shrewd and subtle portraiture.
(oddly no ads- perhaps the theatre was too small to afford the times? Or did it close despite the good reviews?)
Thursday, Oct 22, 1936
Q Theatre Charlotte Corday in the French revolution,
Q Theatre – Charlotte Corday
Role Charlotte Corday
The adventure of Charlotte Corday in assassinating Marat,
Miss Beatrix Lehmann with high intelligence and remarkable restraint gives life to Charlotte Corday within the limits that the dramatist has set. But the play leaves an impression of bareness and crudity, partly because Mr. Klein, in his treatment of the character, is more interested in labels than in analysis, but chiefly because the anecdote is less suited to naturalistic treatment…
Thursday, Nov 26, 1936
The Witch of Edmonton – Old Vic (Play read)Play of a witch and a devil and a man’s bigamous marriage
Monday, Dec 07, 1936 Tuesday, Dec 08, 1936
Old Vic – Witch of Edmonton ad (2nd Billing)
Wednesday, Dec 09, 1936 – review
Old Vic The witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker,
Winifred (2nd wife) – Beatrix Lehmann
It is stamped with sympathy for the outcast and suffering and is able to see always two sides of the human picture – even when the pictures is a villain or a witch… There are two stories connected by the most slender of links, one of Frank Thorney who marries two wives and murders the second; another of Mother Sawyer who sells her soul to the devil in retuf for power, as a witch, to be avenged on her enemies. The devil appears in the form of a gigantic water Spaniel. …
Miss Beatrix Lehmann plays an awkwardly confused part with a successful determination to give it a clear outline
Saturday, Dec 12, 1936; Wednesday, Dec 16, 1936; Thursday, Dec 17, 1936 Saturday, Dec 19, 1936 Tuesday, Dec 22, 1936; Wednesday, Dec 23, 1936; Tuesday, Dec 29, 1936
Old Vic Witch of Edmonton – ad
Thursday, Feb 18, 1937
Upcoming play First night with Beatrix Lehmann at the Arts Theatre
Friday, Mar 12, 1937
London Television, Alexandra Palace, Scenes from Twelfth night
Wednesday, Jul 07, 1937
Embassy theatre Up the garden path by Ireland Wood from a story by Richmal Crompton
Catherine Deveral, Beatrix Lehmann (listed last)
“old maids and odd women”… For the actor as well as the author there are more difficult and serious qualities to represent but both Miss Patricia Hiliard and MBL greatly assisted the author in keeping their characters well within their doll’s house and tactful polite or pleasing even in their criticism of it.”
Monday, Oct 18, 1937; Programme bought
Westminster theatre Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’neill – Westminister theatre leading part to Beatrix Lehmann
Thursday, Nov 11, 1937
Westminster theatre Mourning becomes Electra – recently opened mention
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra – ad (2nd billing)
Saturday, Nov 20, 1937 – review
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra by Eugene O’neill
Lavinia – Beatrix Lehmann
Tale of the Mannon family who live in New England in 1865…how the daughter Lavinia using her brother Orin as her instrument pursued Christine to her death and how at last Lavinia and Orin, haunted by their own guilt and possessed by the spirits of their dead mother and father, were driven into fearful loves and hates, Orin to die by his own hand, Lavinia to live on alone in the house of their doom…
Miss Beatrix Lehmann through Lavinia wear her mother’s dress, cannot grow into a resemblance of Miss Laura Vowie, but by her and by the whole Mannon tribe the difficulty is courageously faced. The perpetuation of an evil and pervasive spirit is communicated… MBL’s performance is a temptation to write an essay, so elaborate is it, so finished in detail, and yet so firmly simple in its outline. There are passages in which it is physically a trifle to rigid; the stiffness of body is intended and has reason behind it, but is carried too far. In all else ML’s study of the beating down of this determined girl by fate – a fate that dwells in her own blood – is of the highest rank. There is a terrible darkness behind its flame, and when the flame is quenced or hidden, it burns by its iciness.
Monday, Nov 22, 1937 Wednesday, Nov 24, 1937 Thursday, Nov 25, 1937; Saturday, Nov 27, 1937 Monday, Nov 29, 1937; Tuesday, Nov 30, 1937 Wednesday, Dec 01, 1937 Thursday, Dec 02, 1937; Friday, Dec 03, 1937 Saturday, Dec 04, 1937 Monday, Dec 06, 1937
Westminster Theatre Mourning becomes Electra – ad (2nd)
Saturday, Jan 01, 1938 –
The Theatre – summation of the previous theatrical year
“Several theatrical reputations have been greatly advanced… Miss Beatrix Lehmann gave a memorable performance with Mr Robert Harris in the O’Neill.
Thursday, Jan 20, 1938
New Theatre (transfer) Mourning becomes Electra - review
The central character, moreover, is not Aeschylus. Mr. O’Neill has concentrated the whole responsibility for the accumulated heritage of pelopid hate, not upon Orestes, but upon Electra, a terrible creation of ice and gall, superbly played by MBL. Where the torment of Orestes in the original proceeds from the pagan idea of pollution, here that of Electra, or Lavinia, derives from the sense of moral guilt and is intensified by the thought that the ineluctable punishment is perpetuation of the sin… In its English representation there is fine acting by Miss Laura Cowie and Mr Robert Harris, while that of Miss Lehmann is of the highest order of brilliance(!)
Monday, Jan 24, 1938
Photo from Mourning becomes Electra looking STUNNING
Saturday, Jan 29, 1938;
New Theatre - Mourning becomes Electra – ad 2nd billing
Upcoming - Miss Rosamund Lehmann has dramatised her novel, no more music and the stage version will be presented at the London International Theatre Club at the Duke of York Theatre on Sunday week and two following Sundays. Miss Beatrix Lehmann who is at present appearing in Mr Eugene O’neills ... Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be seen in the leading part in her sister’s play,
Thursday, Feb 24, 1938
Another announcement for “her sister’s” play
Another announcement for “her sister’s” play
Monday, Feb 28, 1938;
London International Theatre No more music by Rosamond Lehmann
Hilda Lazenby – Beatrix Lehmann
For Hilda there is no more music when the waves have swalled her up, but for Jan who cannot requite her passion the music can never end. … Since Hilda provoked his interest by her unhappiness he could not help presenting himself to her as the only man who has ever seemed to understand her. … All that is real and all that is faintly touched with absurdity are implicit in the portrait MBL draws,
Monday, Mar 21, 1938;
New Theatre - Mourning becomes Electra - ad
Monday, Apr 25, 1938
Television The shadowy waters by WB Yeats
Monday, Jul 11, 1938
Westminster theatre La Voix Humaine – The human voice
(Mentioned by Isherwood in Christopher and his kind)
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will play the only character,
Monday, Jul 18, 1938
Westminster theatre La Voix Humaine – The human voice – review
The study of a woman who still loves, but is no longer loved… it becomes an admirable vehicle for the art of Miss Beatrix Lehmann and her performance at the Westminster theatre last night triumphed over every difficult. There was no moment in its long and trying course when it failed to hold the state and the completed portrait was not spoiled by any touch of sentimentality.
Monday, Nov 14, 1938;
Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has not been seen on the London Stage since Her appearance in Mourning becomes Electra [not true] … will have the leading part in They walk alone, a new play by Mr. Max Catto,
Thursday, Nov 17, 1938; Programme and play text bought
Another notice for They walk alone Q theatre
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1938;
Q Theatre, They walk alone by Max Catto – review
Emmy Baudine – 6th billing (main character)
There is no need to pretend that this is anything else than melodrama and not to be ashamed for having enjoyed it. A girl Emmy (Beatrix Lehmann) comes to a Lincolnshire farm as a servant. She is stragely affected by the playing of organ music in the chapel near by and from that moment onward, is to be watched suspiciously. … soon afterwards young men are found horribly murdered. … Sometimes we see Emmy, breathless from the dog’s pursuit, rush in through the flapping door. She has a power over young men. She has the marks of a dog’s bite on her throat. She is small and frail but has hands and wrists like steel…the play almost continuously commands the stage… But what gives the evening its distincition – and its distinction is that it is exciting – is MBL’s performance. It would no doubt be possible to discover a thousand pathological subtleties in her treatment of Emmy and to claim for the piece an intellectual value within the melodrama, but to do so would be a waste of time. Here is melodramatic material played by an actress of rare imaginative power and played by her for its thrill. She uses her face as a tragic mask sprung to life. She does not hesitate before the uses of the grotesque, she draws fear into her on her fingertips, she employs, as first-rate acting in melodrama must emply, the forces of dramatic hypnosis. Analysis of the play cannot make much of it, but under ML’s spell it has astonishing impact.
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1938;
Q theatre They walk alone – ad top billing
Thursday, Dec 01, 1938
Beatrix Lehmann... Recently appeared at the Q theatre (not a long run)
Monday, Jan 16, 1939 Tuesday, Jan 17, 1939 Thursday, Jan 19, 1939
Shaftesbury (Transferred) They walk alone ad top billing
Friday, Jan 20, 1939;
Shaftesbury – They walk alone review
Mr Catto’s piece has earned it’s promotion.
Miss Beatrix Lehmann repeats her former achievement of playing melodrama straight from the shoulder and at the same time of making one continuously interested in a subject so unpromising as homicidal mania. In spire of her performance the play is not to be taken seriously…
Friday, Jan 20, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad
Saturday, Jan 21, 1939; Monday, Jan 23, 1939 Tuesday, Jan 24, 1939 Wednesday, Jan 25, 1939 Thursday, Jan 26, 1939; Friday, Jan 27, 1939;
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad with reviews
Grips with suspense and horror audience spellbound – star
Deserves success original and amazingly efficient – daily mail
Shivers went up and down the spine a tremendous tour de force – news chronicle
Horrific audience in a breathless and appalled hush – evening news
Brilliant Beatrix Lehmann electrified us with the most terrifying acting London has seen – daily herald
Beatrix Lehmann magnificent acting well matched by that of Carol Goodner – Evening standard.
Saturday, Jan 28, 1939 Monday, Jan 30, 1939 Wednesday, Feb 01, 1939 Thursday, Feb 02, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad with shorter review
Grips with suspense… audience spellbound … terrific – star (only)
Tuesday, Feb 07, 1939
Extracts from they walk alone (Not sure if radio or tv. I think radio)
Tuesday, Feb 07, 1939; Wednesday, Feb 08, 1939 Thursday, Feb 09, 1939; Monday, Feb 13, 1939 Tuesday, Feb 14, 1939 Thursday, Feb 16, 1939 Saturday, Feb 18, 1939 Monday, Feb 20, 1939; Tuesday, Feb 21, 1939; Wednesday, Feb 22, 1939 Thursday, Feb 23, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone – shorter ad
Saturday, Feb 25, 1939
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Beatrix Lehmann act as judge for awarding Bancroft gold medal and other medals and prices. At Apollo theatre
Saturday, Feb 25, 1939 Monday, Feb 27, 1939 Tuesday, Feb 28, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 01, 1939 Thursday, Mar 02, 1939 Friday, Mar 03, 1939 Saturday, Mar 04, 1939 Monday, Mar 06, 1939; Tuesday, Mar 07, 1939; Wednesday, Mar 08, 1939 Thursday, Mar 09, 1939 Saturday, Mar 11, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 14, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 15, 1939 Friday, Mar 17, 1939 Saturday, Mar 18, 1939; Monday, Mar 20, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 21, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 22, 1939 Thursday, Mar 23, 1939 Friday, Mar 24, 1939 Saturday, Mar 25, 1939 Monday, Mar 27, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 28, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 29, 1939 Thursday, Mar 30, 1939 Friday, Mar 31, 1939 Saturday, Apr 01, 1939 Monday, Apr 03, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 05, 1939 Saturday, Apr 08, 1939 Monday, Apr 10, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 11, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 12, 1939 Thursday, Apr 13, 1939 Friday, Apr 14, 1939; Saturday, Apr 15, 1939 Monday, Apr 17, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 18, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 19, 1939; Friday, Apr 21, 1939; Saturday, Apr 22, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 25, 1939; Wednesday, Apr 26, 1939 Thursday, Apr 27, 1939 Friday, Apr 28, 1939 Saturday, Apr 29, 1939 Monday, May 01, 1939; Tuesday, May 02, 1939; Wednesday, May 03, 1939; Thursday, May 04, 1939 Friday, May 05, 1939 Saturday, May 06, 1939; Monday, May 08, 1939 Wednesday, May 10, 1939 Saturday, May 13, 1939 Tuesday, May 16, 1939; Wednesday, May 17, 1939 Thursday, May 18, 1939 Friday, May 19, 1939 Saturday, May 20, 1939 Monday, May 22, 1939; Wednesday, May 24, 1939 Thursday, May 25, 1939 Saturday, May 27, 1939; Monday, May 29, 1939 Tuesday, May 30, 1939 Wednesday, May 31, 1939; Thursday, Jun 01, 1939 Friday, Jun 02, 1939 Saturday, Jun 03, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone – shorter ad
Monday, Jul 31, 1939
Storm over Santa Cruz by Janina Morawska translated by Robert Kemp – radio play review
Two telephone girls and a negor employed by the Santa Cruz telephone exchange when a cyclone hits town… MBL in a performance of great restraint and emotional power, suggested the rising tension as the operator, telephones to the mayor, to the fire brigade to the police and to the cure only to find her message received either with incredulity or contempt…
Tuesday, Aug 01, 1939
They walk alone – transfereed to the coliseum with different woman (Marjorie Woodall) as Emmy
[reviewed not as kindly as Beatrix's performance]
London International Theatre No more music by Rosamond Lehmann
Hilda Lazenby – Beatrix Lehmann
For Hilda there is no more music when the waves have swalled her up, but for Jan who cannot requite her passion the music can never end. … Since Hilda provoked his interest by her unhappiness he could not help presenting himself to her as the only man who has ever seemed to understand her. … All that is real and all that is faintly touched with absurdity are implicit in the portrait MBL draws,
Monday, Mar 21, 1938;
New Theatre - Mourning becomes Electra - ad
Monday, Apr 25, 1938
Television The shadowy waters by WB Yeats
Monday, Jul 11, 1938
Westminster theatre La Voix Humaine – The human voice
(Mentioned by Isherwood in Christopher and his kind)
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will play the only character,
Monday, Jul 18, 1938
Westminster theatre La Voix Humaine – The human voice – review
The study of a woman who still loves, but is no longer loved… it becomes an admirable vehicle for the art of Miss Beatrix Lehmann and her performance at the Westminster theatre last night triumphed over every difficult. There was no moment in its long and trying course when it failed to hold the state and the completed portrait was not spoiled by any touch of sentimentality.
Monday, Nov 14, 1938;
Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has not been seen on the London Stage since Her appearance in Mourning becomes Electra [not true] … will have the leading part in They walk alone, a new play by Mr. Max Catto,
Thursday, Nov 17, 1938; Programme and play text bought
Another notice for They walk alone Q theatre
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1938;
Q Theatre, They walk alone by Max Catto – review
Emmy Baudine – 6th billing (main character)
There is no need to pretend that this is anything else than melodrama and not to be ashamed for having enjoyed it. A girl Emmy (Beatrix Lehmann) comes to a Lincolnshire farm as a servant. She is stragely affected by the playing of organ music in the chapel near by and from that moment onward, is to be watched suspiciously. … soon afterwards young men are found horribly murdered. … Sometimes we see Emmy, breathless from the dog’s pursuit, rush in through the flapping door. She has a power over young men. She has the marks of a dog’s bite on her throat. She is small and frail but has hands and wrists like steel…the play almost continuously commands the stage… But what gives the evening its distincition – and its distinction is that it is exciting – is MBL’s performance. It would no doubt be possible to discover a thousand pathological subtleties in her treatment of Emmy and to claim for the piece an intellectual value within the melodrama, but to do so would be a waste of time. Here is melodramatic material played by an actress of rare imaginative power and played by her for its thrill. She uses her face as a tragic mask sprung to life. She does not hesitate before the uses of the grotesque, she draws fear into her on her fingertips, she employs, as first-rate acting in melodrama must emply, the forces of dramatic hypnosis. Analysis of the play cannot make much of it, but under ML’s spell it has astonishing impact.
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1938;
Q theatre They walk alone – ad top billing
Thursday, Dec 01, 1938
Beatrix Lehmann... Recently appeared at the Q theatre (not a long run)
Monday, Jan 16, 1939 Tuesday, Jan 17, 1939 Thursday, Jan 19, 1939
Shaftesbury (Transferred) They walk alone ad top billing
Friday, Jan 20, 1939;
Shaftesbury – They walk alone review
Mr Catto’s piece has earned it’s promotion.
Miss Beatrix Lehmann repeats her former achievement of playing melodrama straight from the shoulder and at the same time of making one continuously interested in a subject so unpromising as homicidal mania. In spire of her performance the play is not to be taken seriously…
Friday, Jan 20, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad
Saturday, Jan 21, 1939; Monday, Jan 23, 1939 Tuesday, Jan 24, 1939 Wednesday, Jan 25, 1939 Thursday, Jan 26, 1939; Friday, Jan 27, 1939;
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad with reviews
Grips with suspense and horror audience spellbound – star
Deserves success original and amazingly efficient – daily mail
Shivers went up and down the spine a tremendous tour de force – news chronicle
Horrific audience in a breathless and appalled hush – evening news
Brilliant Beatrix Lehmann electrified us with the most terrifying acting London has seen – daily herald
Beatrix Lehmann magnificent acting well matched by that of Carol Goodner – Evening standard.
Saturday, Jan 28, 1939 Monday, Jan 30, 1939 Wednesday, Feb 01, 1939 Thursday, Feb 02, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone– ad with shorter review
Grips with suspense… audience spellbound … terrific – star (only)
Tuesday, Feb 07, 1939
Extracts from they walk alone (Not sure if radio or tv. I think radio)
Tuesday, Feb 07, 1939; Wednesday, Feb 08, 1939 Thursday, Feb 09, 1939; Monday, Feb 13, 1939 Tuesday, Feb 14, 1939 Thursday, Feb 16, 1939 Saturday, Feb 18, 1939 Monday, Feb 20, 1939; Tuesday, Feb 21, 1939; Wednesday, Feb 22, 1939 Thursday, Feb 23, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone – shorter ad
Saturday, Feb 25, 1939
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Beatrix Lehmann act as judge for awarding Bancroft gold medal and other medals and prices. At Apollo theatre
Saturday, Feb 25, 1939 Monday, Feb 27, 1939 Tuesday, Feb 28, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 01, 1939 Thursday, Mar 02, 1939 Friday, Mar 03, 1939 Saturday, Mar 04, 1939 Monday, Mar 06, 1939; Tuesday, Mar 07, 1939; Wednesday, Mar 08, 1939 Thursday, Mar 09, 1939 Saturday, Mar 11, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 14, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 15, 1939 Friday, Mar 17, 1939 Saturday, Mar 18, 1939; Monday, Mar 20, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 21, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 22, 1939 Thursday, Mar 23, 1939 Friday, Mar 24, 1939 Saturday, Mar 25, 1939 Monday, Mar 27, 1939 Tuesday, Mar 28, 1939 Wednesday, Mar 29, 1939 Thursday, Mar 30, 1939 Friday, Mar 31, 1939 Saturday, Apr 01, 1939 Monday, Apr 03, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 05, 1939 Saturday, Apr 08, 1939 Monday, Apr 10, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 11, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 12, 1939 Thursday, Apr 13, 1939 Friday, Apr 14, 1939; Saturday, Apr 15, 1939 Monday, Apr 17, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 18, 1939 Wednesday, Apr 19, 1939; Friday, Apr 21, 1939; Saturday, Apr 22, 1939 Tuesday, Apr 25, 1939; Wednesday, Apr 26, 1939 Thursday, Apr 27, 1939 Friday, Apr 28, 1939 Saturday, Apr 29, 1939 Monday, May 01, 1939; Tuesday, May 02, 1939; Wednesday, May 03, 1939; Thursday, May 04, 1939 Friday, May 05, 1939 Saturday, May 06, 1939; Monday, May 08, 1939 Wednesday, May 10, 1939 Saturday, May 13, 1939 Tuesday, May 16, 1939; Wednesday, May 17, 1939 Thursday, May 18, 1939 Friday, May 19, 1939 Saturday, May 20, 1939 Monday, May 22, 1939; Wednesday, May 24, 1939 Thursday, May 25, 1939 Saturday, May 27, 1939; Monday, May 29, 1939 Tuesday, May 30, 1939 Wednesday, May 31, 1939; Thursday, Jun 01, 1939 Friday, Jun 02, 1939 Saturday, Jun 03, 1939
Shaftesbury – They walk alone – shorter ad
Monday, Jul 31, 1939
Storm over Santa Cruz by Janina Morawska translated by Robert Kemp – radio play review
Two telephone girls and a negor employed by the Santa Cruz telephone exchange when a cyclone hits town… MBL in a performance of great restraint and emotional power, suggested the rising tension as the operator, telephones to the mayor, to the fire brigade to the police and to the cure only to find her message received either with incredulity or contempt…
Tuesday, Aug 01, 1939
They walk alone – transfereed to the coliseum with different woman (Marjorie Woodall) as Emmy
[reviewed not as kindly as Beatrix's performance]
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