All notifications taken from the Times digital archive.
Monday, Jan 22, 1940 Play text read
Westminster theatre – Desire under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill includes Beatrix Lehmann
Wednesday, Jan 24, 1940
Westminster theatre – Desire under the Elms
“Beatrix Lehmann In Eugene O’Neill’s” - ad
Thursday, Jan 25, 1940;
Westminister Theatre – Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill
The dark and brutal story of New England peasants driving fiercely and ignorantly at the satisfaction of their desires spirtiualizes itself into something like a celebration of the primitive innocence underlying the passions of primitive people… The incident to which the Boston police objected is the murder of a baby by a mother whose perverted idealism sees in this action the only possible proof of her love for its father. This incident is not from any point of view entirely satisfactory. It is insufficiently explained and inadequately prepared for…Miss Beatrix Lehmann finds precisely the right formula for the stupidity of the woman who has married an old man for a home, and is drawn irresistibly to her stepson.
Thursday, Jan 25, 1940; Friday, Jan 26, 1940; Saturday, Jan 27, 1940 Tuesday, Jan 30, 1940; Thursday, Feb 01, 1940 Tuesday, Feb 06, 1940; Wednesday, Feb 07, 1940 Thursday, Feb 08, 1940 Friday, Feb 09, 1940; Monday, Feb 12, 1940; Thursday, Feb 15, 1940; Monday, Feb 19, 1940 Wednesday, Feb 21, 1940; Thursday, Feb 22, 1940; Friday, Feb 23, 1940; Tuesday, Feb 27, 1940; Thursday, Feb 29, 1940; Saturday, Mar 02, 1940 Tuesday, Mar 05, 1940 Wednesday, Mar 06, 1940 Thursday, Mar 07, 1940; Monday, Mar 11, 1940; Wednesday, Mar 13, 1940; Thursday, Mar 14, 1940; Friday, Mar 15, 1940; Saturday, Mar 16, 1940; Wednesday, Mar 20, 1940 Thursday, Mar 21, 1940; Saturday, Mar 23, 1940 Monday, Mar 25, 1940 Tuesday, Mar 26, 1940; Thursday, Mar 28, 1940; Monday, Apr 01, 1940; Tuesday, Apr 02, 1940; Wednesday, Apr 03, 1940 (with note of last 7 performances) Thursday, Apr 04, 1940; (with note last 5 performances) Friday, Apr 05, 1940; (last 3) Saturday, Apr 06, 1940 (last 2)
Westminster – Desire under the Elms – ad
Monday, Apr 07, 1940
St Martin’s theatre - Close quarters
On Saturday the two-character play opens for a limited season with Miss Beatrix Lehmann and Mr Carl Stepainek (no reviews or ads)
Monday, Jul 28, 1941 – BIG GAP (perhaps due to bombing?)
On Thursday evening the Apollo Theatre will reopen with Close Quarters a play by W.O. Somin which has only two characters. Miss Beatrix Lehmann of whom London does not see enough, will play one, and Karel C. Stepanek, who has never appeared in London before (so the initial run must not have happened), the other. Close quarters is produced by Mr Henry Cass
Thursday, Jul 31, 1941 Friday, Aug 01, 1941 Programme?
Apollo Theatre – Close quarters – ad (top Billing)
Saturday, Aug 02, 1941
Apollo Theatre – Close quarters – review
By W.O. Somin adapted by Gilbert Lennox
There are two characters in this play, the wife who commits murder and her husband who at one time through the fevered working of his own imagination, the accumulation of circumstantial evidence, and his wife’s own strange behaviour, comes almost to suspect himself, before he finds out the truth.
It is a tour de force an essay in intricate technique, manufactured and artificial but for all that it is an astonishing piece of stage craft. … yet the world hostile, vengeful and suspicious is all around them… However, close quarters remains a play which is almost entirely dependent upon the acting, and MKS who has not acted in London before, and Miss Beatrix Lehmann never look like failing it. … Miss Lehmann has the more difficult part, a part tossed about on changes of emotion on changes of mood, complicated by her relations with her husband and the dead man, and charged with an increasing nervous anxiety. ML makes Liesa throughout a woman of nerves and temperament yet there is a simplicity about her, too, and ML manages her sudden defenceless lapses into a normal domesticity as surely as she controls her tensity and her rare outbursts of hysteria.
Monday, Aug 04, 1941 Tuesday, Aug 05, 1941 Wednesday, Aug 06, 1941 Thursday, Aug 07, 1941; Saturday, Aug 09, 1941 Wednesday, Aug 13, 1941; Thursday, Aug 14, 1941; Monday, Aug 18, 1941; Tuesday, Aug 19, 1941 Wednesday, Aug 20, 1941; Friday, Aug 22, 1941; Saturday, Aug 23, 1941;
Apollo – Close Quarters – ad
Monday, Feb 09, 1942
On Feb 19 Miss Beatrix Lehmann will appear in a new comedy Jam to-day
Monday, Feb 09, 1942; Tuesday, Feb 10, 1942 Wednesday, Feb 11, 1942 Thursday, Feb 12, 1942 Friday, Feb 13, 1942; Saturday, Feb 14, 1942 Monday, Feb 16, 1942
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Tuesday, Feb 17, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day –
Miss Beatrix Lehmann who does not usually play in comedy (!) will take the leading part in Jam To-day, a light comedy by Denis Waldock and Roger Burford, which will be seen at the St. Martin’s Theatre on Thurs Evening.
Tuesday, Feb 17, 1942; Wednesday, Feb 18, 1942; Thursday, Feb 19, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Saturday, Feb 21, 1942
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – review
Ilona benson is the kind of wife this particular theme may most conveniently bestow upon an amiably pompous archaeologist who is often absent from home. Reluctantly she yields to every temptation, knowing all the while that the authors have provider her with a tiny inexhaustible reserve … it is all her husband’s fault for making such a fuss…Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has hitherto seemed to specialize in the portrayal of queer tortured mentalities, brings her usual accomplishment to the comparatively simple technical problem of the frivolous suburban wife. The result is charm of an intensity much in excess of the requirements, but since such nicety of adjustment is not among the requirements, no great harm is done.
Monday, Feb 23, 1942; Tuesday, Feb 24, 1942; Wednesday, Feb 25, 1942 Thursday, Feb 26, 1942; Monday, Mar 02, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 03, 1942; Thursday, Mar 05, 1942; Friday, Mar 06, 1942; Saturday, Mar 07, 1942; Monday, Mar 09, 1942; Wednesday, Mar 11, 1942 Thursday, Mar 12, 1942; Friday, Mar 13, 1942; Saturday, Mar 14, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 17, 1942 Saturday, Mar 21, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 24, 1942; Wednesday, Mar 25, 1942 Friday, Mar 27, 1942; Monday, Mar 30, 1942; Wednesday, Apr 01, 1942; Saturday, Apr 04, 1942; Tuesday, Apr 07, 1942; Thursday, Apr 09, 1942; Friday, Apr 10, 1942; Saturday, Apr 11, 1942; Monday, Apr 13, 1942 Tuesday, Apr 14, 1942 Thursday, Apr 16, 1942; Friday, Apr 17, 1942 Saturday, Apr 18, 1942 Tuesday, Apr 21, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1942;
Provincial Theatre Council
The Provincial Theatre Council which is to secure cooperation between managers and artists for the safeguarding and development of the theatre, was inaugurated at a meeting of the Ministry of Labour and National Service yesterday. Provincial managers will engage only artists approved by the council, and artists will work only for approved managers. A minimum wage of £3 a week is guaranteed to all artists, as well as rehearsal pay and limitations in the number of “weeks out”. – Miss Beatrix Lehmann (and 6 others) for the artists.
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1942; Friday, Apr 24, 1942; Friday, Apr 24, 1942, Saturday, Apr 25, 1942; Tuesday, Apr 28, 1942; Wednesday, Apr 29, 1942; Friday, May 01, 1942; Monday, May 04, 1942; Tuesday, May 05, 1942; Wednesday, May 06, 1942; Friday, May 08, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Thursday, Nov 26, 1942;
British Drama league – poetry reading by Miss Beatrix Lehmann in aid of Mrs. Churchill’s aid to Russia fun, 9 Fitzory Square.
Friday, Nov 27, 1942;
Sunday performances – to the editor of the times.
Owing to the persistent action taken by the Lord’s Day Observance Society in upholding the law passed in 1677 and never repealed or adjusted to modern requirements, we, the undersigned, which to state with regret that we are not allowed to give stage performances for any charity, or performance to which money is subscribed on any Sunday. – signed (including Miss Beatrix Lehmann)
Monday, Jun 21, 1943; Tuesday, Jun 22, 1943; Wednesday, Jun 23, 1943;
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Beatrix Lehmann in an entirely new production of ghosts – ad
Saturday, Jun 26, 1943
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Ibsen English version by Norman Ginsbury
Miss Beatrix Lehmann is poorly supported while she flashes the realities of the past before the Pastor’s shocked eyes. Mr Edward Byrne at no time suggests (actual bad review) ML’s performance suffers from this tame start and it is not until the final scene, which she and Mr John Carol play with excellent judgement that Mrs Alving comes to life. For the rest of the time her playing is colourlessly correct, and there is neither warmth in her regrets for the fatal slowness with which she has learned to think for herself nor passion in the apprehension with which she sees the past beginning to repeat itself. She is less a tragic heroine than the luckless heroine of a thriller, and the quality of the tension throughout the evening is that of a thriller which obstinately refuses to thrill. Mr Denis Arundell’s production is as commonplace as the lighting, which switches abruptly from the sunniness appropriate of a summer resort to claustrophobic gloom.
Monday, Jun 28, 1943; Thursday, Jul 01, 1943; Friday, Jul 02, 1943; Saturday, Jul 03, 1943; Wednesday, Jul 07, 1943; Tuesday, Jul 20, 1943; Monday, Jul 26, 1943; Tuesday, Aug 10, 1943; Saturday, Aug 14, 1943 Thursday, Aug 19, 1943
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Beatrix Lehmann in an entirely new production of ghosts – ad “brilliant entertainment
5 October 1943, recording at BBC with Guy Burgess
Late rehearsal of Miss Lehmann & coming in to attend transmission at 11.55 pm. Dinner allowance entertaining Miss Lehmann made necessary by midnight broadcast and late rehearsal. (BBC archives http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/burgess/7711.shtml)
Tuesday, Mar 28, 1944; Wednesday, Mar 29, 1944;
Garrick – Uncle Harry - ad programme
Builled 2nd after Michael Redgrave
Thursday, Mar 30, 1944
Garrick – Uncle Harry – review
By Thomas Job
The fashion set by Mr Patrick Hamilton in Gas Light of giving murder the glamour of period clothes and manners still holds sway… but Harry Quincey who poisoned one sister, fastened the crime on to another and begged her in vain to release him from the burden of guilt is both in and of the late Edwardian period… The murderer is like one of Mr HG Wells early heroes… The piece is a fine all-round opportunity for character acting, and the whole company is admirably equal to the opportunity.. Miss Beatrix Lehmann gives the utmost plausibility to a sister’s triumphantly possessive affections which is shocked into a cruel indifference…
Monday, Apr 03, 1944 Tuesday, Apr 04, 1944; Thursday, Apr 06, 1944; Saturday, Apr 08, 1944 Monday, Apr 10, 1944 Tuesday, Apr 11, 1944; Thursday, Apr 13, 1944; Saturday, Apr 15, 1944; Tuesday, Apr 18, 1944 Thursday, Apr 20, 1944; Friday, Apr 21, 1944; Monday, Apr 24, 1944; Tuesday, Apr 25, 1944; Tuesday, May 09, 1944; Wednesday, May 10, 1944; Monday, May 15, 1944; Tuesday, May 16, 1944; Thursday, May 18, 1944; Monday, May 22, 1944 Thursday, May 25, 1944; Friday, May 26, 1944; Monday, May 29, 1944; Tuesday, Jun 06, 1944; Monday, Jun 12, 1944 Tuesday, Jun 13, 1944; Saturday, Jun 17, 1944; Monday, Jun 19, 1944 Friday, Jun 23, 1944
Garrick – Uncle Harry - ad
Billed 2nd after Michael Redgrave
Saturday, Sep 09, 1944;
News in brief – Uncle Harry by Thomas Job resumed its run at the Garrick Theatre on Thursday evening after a break of several weeks cause by the flying bomb raids! Mr Michael Redgrave and Miss Beatrix Lehmann again play the leading parts.
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – review
Ilona benson is the kind of wife this particular theme may most conveniently bestow upon an amiably pompous archaeologist who is often absent from home. Reluctantly she yields to every temptation, knowing all the while that the authors have provider her with a tiny inexhaustible reserve … it is all her husband’s fault for making such a fuss…Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has hitherto seemed to specialize in the portrayal of queer tortured mentalities, brings her usual accomplishment to the comparatively simple technical problem of the frivolous suburban wife. The result is charm of an intensity much in excess of the requirements, but since such nicety of adjustment is not among the requirements, no great harm is done.
Monday, Feb 23, 1942; Tuesday, Feb 24, 1942; Wednesday, Feb 25, 1942 Thursday, Feb 26, 1942; Monday, Mar 02, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 03, 1942; Thursday, Mar 05, 1942; Friday, Mar 06, 1942; Saturday, Mar 07, 1942; Monday, Mar 09, 1942; Wednesday, Mar 11, 1942 Thursday, Mar 12, 1942; Friday, Mar 13, 1942; Saturday, Mar 14, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 17, 1942 Saturday, Mar 21, 1942; Tuesday, Mar 24, 1942; Wednesday, Mar 25, 1942 Friday, Mar 27, 1942; Monday, Mar 30, 1942; Wednesday, Apr 01, 1942; Saturday, Apr 04, 1942; Tuesday, Apr 07, 1942; Thursday, Apr 09, 1942; Friday, Apr 10, 1942; Saturday, Apr 11, 1942; Monday, Apr 13, 1942 Tuesday, Apr 14, 1942 Thursday, Apr 16, 1942; Friday, Apr 17, 1942 Saturday, Apr 18, 1942 Tuesday, Apr 21, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1942;
Provincial Theatre Council
The Provincial Theatre Council which is to secure cooperation between managers and artists for the safeguarding and development of the theatre, was inaugurated at a meeting of the Ministry of Labour and National Service yesterday. Provincial managers will engage only artists approved by the council, and artists will work only for approved managers. A minimum wage of £3 a week is guaranteed to all artists, as well as rehearsal pay and limitations in the number of “weeks out”. – Miss Beatrix Lehmann (and 6 others) for the artists.
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1942; Friday, Apr 24, 1942; Friday, Apr 24, 1942, Saturday, Apr 25, 1942; Tuesday, Apr 28, 1942; Wednesday, Apr 29, 1942; Friday, May 01, 1942; Monday, May 04, 1942; Tuesday, May 05, 1942; Wednesday, May 06, 1942; Friday, May 08, 1942;
St Martin’s Theatre – Jam To-day – ad (top billing) “a new comedy”
Thursday, Nov 26, 1942;
British Drama league – poetry reading by Miss Beatrix Lehmann in aid of Mrs. Churchill’s aid to Russia fun, 9 Fitzory Square.
Friday, Nov 27, 1942;
Sunday performances – to the editor of the times.
Owing to the persistent action taken by the Lord’s Day Observance Society in upholding the law passed in 1677 and never repealed or adjusted to modern requirements, we, the undersigned, which to state with regret that we are not allowed to give stage performances for any charity, or performance to which money is subscribed on any Sunday. – signed (including Miss Beatrix Lehmann)
Monday, Jun 21, 1943; Tuesday, Jun 22, 1943; Wednesday, Jun 23, 1943;
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Beatrix Lehmann in an entirely new production of ghosts – ad
Saturday, Jun 26, 1943
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Ibsen English version by Norman Ginsbury
Miss Beatrix Lehmann is poorly supported while she flashes the realities of the past before the Pastor’s shocked eyes. Mr Edward Byrne at no time suggests (actual bad review) ML’s performance suffers from this tame start and it is not until the final scene, which she and Mr John Carol play with excellent judgement that Mrs Alving comes to life. For the rest of the time her playing is colourlessly correct, and there is neither warmth in her regrets for the fatal slowness with which she has learned to think for herself nor passion in the apprehension with which she sees the past beginning to repeat itself. She is less a tragic heroine than the luckless heroine of a thriller, and the quality of the tension throughout the evening is that of a thriller which obstinately refuses to thrill. Mr Denis Arundell’s production is as commonplace as the lighting, which switches abruptly from the sunniness appropriate of a summer resort to claustrophobic gloom.
Monday, Jun 28, 1943; Thursday, Jul 01, 1943; Friday, Jul 02, 1943; Saturday, Jul 03, 1943; Wednesday, Jul 07, 1943; Tuesday, Jul 20, 1943; Monday, Jul 26, 1943; Tuesday, Aug 10, 1943; Saturday, Aug 14, 1943 Thursday, Aug 19, 1943
Duke of York’s – Ghosts
Beatrix Lehmann in an entirely new production of ghosts – ad “brilliant entertainment
5 October 1943, recording at BBC with Guy Burgess
Late rehearsal of Miss Lehmann & coming in to attend transmission at 11.55 pm. Dinner allowance entertaining Miss Lehmann made necessary by midnight broadcast and late rehearsal. (BBC archives http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/burgess/7711.shtml)
Tuesday, Mar 28, 1944; Wednesday, Mar 29, 1944;
Garrick – Uncle Harry - ad programme
Builled 2nd after Michael Redgrave
Thursday, Mar 30, 1944
Garrick – Uncle Harry – review
By Thomas Job
The fashion set by Mr Patrick Hamilton in Gas Light of giving murder the glamour of period clothes and manners still holds sway… but Harry Quincey who poisoned one sister, fastened the crime on to another and begged her in vain to release him from the burden of guilt is both in and of the late Edwardian period… The murderer is like one of Mr HG Wells early heroes… The piece is a fine all-round opportunity for character acting, and the whole company is admirably equal to the opportunity.. Miss Beatrix Lehmann gives the utmost plausibility to a sister’s triumphantly possessive affections which is shocked into a cruel indifference…
Monday, Apr 03, 1944 Tuesday, Apr 04, 1944; Thursday, Apr 06, 1944; Saturday, Apr 08, 1944 Monday, Apr 10, 1944 Tuesday, Apr 11, 1944; Thursday, Apr 13, 1944; Saturday, Apr 15, 1944; Tuesday, Apr 18, 1944 Thursday, Apr 20, 1944; Friday, Apr 21, 1944; Monday, Apr 24, 1944; Tuesday, Apr 25, 1944; Tuesday, May 09, 1944; Wednesday, May 10, 1944; Monday, May 15, 1944; Tuesday, May 16, 1944; Thursday, May 18, 1944; Monday, May 22, 1944 Thursday, May 25, 1944; Friday, May 26, 1944; Monday, May 29, 1944; Tuesday, Jun 06, 1944; Monday, Jun 12, 1944 Tuesday, Jun 13, 1944; Saturday, Jun 17, 1944; Monday, Jun 19, 1944 Friday, Jun 23, 1944
Garrick – Uncle Harry - ad
Billed 2nd after Michael Redgrave
Saturday, Sep 09, 1944;
News in brief – Uncle Harry by Thomas Job resumed its run at the Garrick Theatre on Thursday evening after a break of several weeks cause by the flying bomb raids! Mr Michael Redgrave and Miss Beatrix Lehmann again play the leading parts.
Monday, Jan 01, 1945;
On January 11 … A theatre conference lasting till the end of the week will open at 1 Grosvenor place speakers include Miss Beatrix Lehmann (The ONLY woman listed!)
Friday, Apr 06, 1945;
Heart of Oak – Albert Hall pageant of the Royal Navy – Beatrix Lehmann one of the narrators.
Tuesday, Mar 19, 1946;
Taking the theatre to Midland towns,
Arts council Midland theatre company will give it’s fist performance (a permanent company based in Coventry), Miss Beatrix Lehmann is to be the director-producer and the first production will be Lennox Robinson’s the round table.
Wednesday, Jun 19, 1946
Equity and the BBC
The Council of the British Actors Equity Association met in London yesterday to discuss the employment of British actors and actresses for television and broadcast performances. … because of its monopoly the BBC was able to lay down cheap fees. A committee consisting of Miss Beatrix Lehmann, (and others, ALL men) was appointed to inquire into the subject and submit a report to the council.
Monday, Jul 08, 1946; Programme and audio online
Vicious Circle – a translation by Miss Marjorie Gabain and Miss Joan Swinstead of Huis Clos by Satre. Will open at the Arts Theatre after a two year run in Paris. The cast will include Miss Betty Ann Davies, Mr Alec Guiness and Miss Beatrix Lehmann (Check this for Alec guiness book too)
Wednesday, Jul 17, 1946;
Arts Theatre – Vicious Circle (Huis CLos)
Two women and one man in hell, French naturalistic drama (In her Times obituary it mentions that Beatrix is playing a lesbian character not mentioned in the review)
It would not seem to have touched the imagination of Mr Peter Brooke whose production is not particularly helpful to the test. Should not the few sticks of Second Empire furniture stand out in the ghastly glare of unshaded electric light? The dialogue is urbane and should hell be quite so cosy? Mr Alec Guiness, Miss Beatrix Lehmann and in a lesser degree, Miss Betty Ann Davies giver performances which admirable as they are, seem not quite to catch the passionately French delight in logic on which the ingenuity of the piece depends.
Monday, Oct 07, 1946;
Arts Theatre – On the way by Helge Krog (Norweigan play)
Produced by Miss Beatrix Lehmann
Monday, Dec 02, 1946;
Arts Theatre – George Lillo’s play Fatal Curiosity – revived under the direction of Miss Beatrix Lehmann
Friday, Dec 06, 1946;
Arts Theatre – The Fatal Curiosity – review
performed in 1736 originally The producer, Miss Beatrix Lehmann invited titters, yet only half heartedly … burlesque … It is somehow degrading to be asked to titter at writing which is manifestly good writing within an outworn convention.
Wednesday, Jan 08, 1947;
Stratford Festival for 1947 Sir Barry Jackson directing a company of 50 players headed by Miss Beatrix Lehmann, Mr Robert Harris and Mr Walter Hudd.
Monday, Mar 17, 1947;
Stratford Festival
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be the nurse in Romeo and Juliet
Monday, Mar 31, 1947;
Stratford Festival – opening play Romeo and Juliet Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has been secured for the whole season will be seen as the nurse
Wednesday, Apr 02, 1947
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1947 festival
Poster style ad – Beatrix Lehmann top billing
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
Stratford festival – Romeo and Juliet review
It can scarcely be said that any of the actors come notably to the rescue of their produce. Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s nurse looking like a Tennial drawing, is a somewhat dry caricature…
Monday, Apr 14, 1947
Startford Festival – Measure for Measure review
Miss Beatrix Lehmann is betrayed by a quality of voice more attuned to Ibsen than to Shakespeare into making her seem one.
Monday, Apr 21, 1947
Stratford on Wednesday Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Viola in Twelfth night
Thursday, Apr 24, 1947
Stratford Festival – Twelfth night – Viola
She has a fixed and tragic mask, beautiful enough, even noble but tragical even in smiling, so that it is nothing like the face of a girl whose sadness comes from events, not temperament, and who can preen herself in the midst of what we should now call her depression, over some turn of phrase or verbal victory. Miss Lehmann’s Viola is not without its fascination – that “dark” voice enhances any hint of disillusion, in the spirit of one who knows Tchekov and Proust – but it is never the author’s.
Saturday, May 31, 1947
Poster add for Stratford Festival
On January 11 … A theatre conference lasting till the end of the week will open at 1 Grosvenor place speakers include Miss Beatrix Lehmann (The ONLY woman listed!)
Friday, Apr 06, 1945;
Heart of Oak – Albert Hall pageant of the Royal Navy – Beatrix Lehmann one of the narrators.
Tuesday, Mar 19, 1946;
Taking the theatre to Midland towns,
Arts council Midland theatre company will give it’s fist performance (a permanent company based in Coventry), Miss Beatrix Lehmann is to be the director-producer and the first production will be Lennox Robinson’s the round table.
Wednesday, Jun 19, 1946
Equity and the BBC
The Council of the British Actors Equity Association met in London yesterday to discuss the employment of British actors and actresses for television and broadcast performances. … because of its monopoly the BBC was able to lay down cheap fees. A committee consisting of Miss Beatrix Lehmann, (and others, ALL men) was appointed to inquire into the subject and submit a report to the council.
Monday, Jul 08, 1946; Programme and audio online
Vicious Circle – a translation by Miss Marjorie Gabain and Miss Joan Swinstead of Huis Clos by Satre. Will open at the Arts Theatre after a two year run in Paris. The cast will include Miss Betty Ann Davies, Mr Alec Guiness and Miss Beatrix Lehmann (Check this for Alec guiness book too)
Wednesday, Jul 17, 1946;
Arts Theatre – Vicious Circle (Huis CLos)
Two women and one man in hell, French naturalistic drama (In her Times obituary it mentions that Beatrix is playing a lesbian character not mentioned in the review)
It would not seem to have touched the imagination of Mr Peter Brooke whose production is not particularly helpful to the test. Should not the few sticks of Second Empire furniture stand out in the ghastly glare of unshaded electric light? The dialogue is urbane and should hell be quite so cosy? Mr Alec Guiness, Miss Beatrix Lehmann and in a lesser degree, Miss Betty Ann Davies giver performances which admirable as they are, seem not quite to catch the passionately French delight in logic on which the ingenuity of the piece depends.
Monday, Oct 07, 1946;
Arts Theatre – On the way by Helge Krog (Norweigan play)
Produced by Miss Beatrix Lehmann
Monday, Dec 02, 1946;
Arts Theatre – George Lillo’s play Fatal Curiosity – revived under the direction of Miss Beatrix Lehmann
Friday, Dec 06, 1946;
Arts Theatre – The Fatal Curiosity – review
performed in 1736 originally The producer, Miss Beatrix Lehmann invited titters, yet only half heartedly … burlesque … It is somehow degrading to be asked to titter at writing which is manifestly good writing within an outworn convention.
Wednesday, Jan 08, 1947;
Stratford Festival for 1947 Sir Barry Jackson directing a company of 50 players headed by Miss Beatrix Lehmann, Mr Robert Harris and Mr Walter Hudd.
Monday, Mar 17, 1947;
Stratford Festival
Miss Beatrix Lehmann will be the nurse in Romeo and Juliet
Monday, Mar 31, 1947;
Stratford Festival – opening play Romeo and Juliet Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has been secured for the whole season will be seen as the nurse
Wednesday, Apr 02, 1947
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1947 festival
Poster style ad – Beatrix Lehmann top billing
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
Stratford festival – Romeo and Juliet review
It can scarcely be said that any of the actors come notably to the rescue of their produce. Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s nurse looking like a Tennial drawing, is a somewhat dry caricature…
Monday, Apr 14, 1947
Startford Festival – Measure for Measure review
Miss Beatrix Lehmann is betrayed by a quality of voice more attuned to Ibsen than to Shakespeare into making her seem one.
Monday, Apr 21, 1947
Stratford on Wednesday Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Viola in Twelfth night
Thursday, Apr 24, 1947
Stratford Festival – Twelfth night – Viola
She has a fixed and tragic mask, beautiful enough, even noble but tragical even in smiling, so that it is nothing like the face of a girl whose sadness comes from events, not temperament, and who can preen herself in the midst of what we should now call her depression, over some turn of phrase or verbal victory. Miss Lehmann’s Viola is not without its fascination – that “dark” voice enhances any hint of disillusion, in the spirit of one who knows Tchekov and Proust – but it is never the author’s.
Saturday, May 31, 1947
Poster add for Stratford Festival
Monday, Jul 07, 1947
Stratford Festival – Merchant of Venice Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Portia.
Festival has already been attended by over 103,000 people.
Monday, Jul 14, 1947
Stratford Festival – Merchant of Venice – review
Miss Beatrix Lehmann gives us a Portia in silver point. It is beautifully done in its way but inevitably the warmth and golden gaiety of the Lady of Belmont are somewhat rarefied. She is most effective in the trial scene, playing the cards up her sleeve with an incisiveness that would have extorted the shocked admiration of the famous lawyer she is impersonating, but here alas her effectiveness blunts itself against the unyielding wood of Shylock.
Friday, Sep 05, 1947
Stratford company to act in London
Twelfth Night with Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Viola (doesn't say if will reprise other roles)
Attended by over 206,000 people in Stratford.
Thursday, Oct 09, 1947;
Her Majesty’s Theatre – Twelfth Night
The production now seems very much better than when it was first staged in Stratford in April. Miss Beatrix Lehmann is still not an ideal Viola, but she takes the part more lightly and is no longer so extraordinary in-apposite as she seemed then.
Wednesday, Jul 14, 1948;
St James Theatre - No Trees in the Street a new play by Mr Ted Wills on July 27 with Miss Beatrix Lehmann in the leading part.
Stratford Festival – Merchant of Venice Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Portia.
Festival has already been attended by over 103,000 people.
Monday, Jul 14, 1947
Stratford Festival – Merchant of Venice – review
Miss Beatrix Lehmann gives us a Portia in silver point. It is beautifully done in its way but inevitably the warmth and golden gaiety of the Lady of Belmont are somewhat rarefied. She is most effective in the trial scene, playing the cards up her sleeve with an incisiveness that would have extorted the shocked admiration of the famous lawyer she is impersonating, but here alas her effectiveness blunts itself against the unyielding wood of Shylock.
Friday, Sep 05, 1947
Stratford company to act in London
Twelfth Night with Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Viola (doesn't say if will reprise other roles)
Attended by over 206,000 people in Stratford.
Thursday, Oct 09, 1947;
Her Majesty’s Theatre – Twelfth Night
The production now seems very much better than when it was first staged in Stratford in April. Miss Beatrix Lehmann is still not an ideal Viola, but she takes the part more lightly and is no longer so extraordinary in-apposite as she seemed then.
Wednesday, Jul 14, 1948;
St James Theatre - No Trees in the Street a new play by Mr Ted Wills on July 27 with Miss Beatrix Lehmann in the leading part.
Tuesday, Jul 20, 1948
British Theatre Group production of No Trees in the Street, July 27 with Miss Beatrix Lehmann in the cast.
Saturday, Jul 24, 1948 Tuesday, Jul 27, 1948
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street with Beatrix Lehmann – ad
Wednesday, Jul 28, 1948
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street by Ted Willis – review
Professedly this piece is a social document written in the spirit of Love on the dole, but it has neither the veracity nor the emotional power of its prototype. … tenement life in the East London youthful ideals wither and golden lads and lasses become killers and prostitutes… Miss Beatrix Lehmann squaring up to the vile mother as though she were playing Long John Silver to children at Christmas, accepts all the invitations that come her way.
Monday, Aug 02, 1948;
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street with Beatrix Lehmann – ad
(went on to be performed at the Bristol Old Vic)
Monday, Mar 21, 1949
Mention of They Walk alone revival and originally played by Miss Beatrix Lehmann
British Theatre Group production of No Trees in the Street, July 27 with Miss Beatrix Lehmann in the cast.
Saturday, Jul 24, 1948 Tuesday, Jul 27, 1948
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street with Beatrix Lehmann – ad
Wednesday, Jul 28, 1948
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street by Ted Willis – review
Professedly this piece is a social document written in the spirit of Love on the dole, but it has neither the veracity nor the emotional power of its prototype. … tenement life in the East London youthful ideals wither and golden lads and lasses become killers and prostitutes… Miss Beatrix Lehmann squaring up to the vile mother as though she were playing Long John Silver to children at Christmas, accepts all the invitations that come her way.
Monday, Aug 02, 1948;
St James Theatre – No Trees in the Street with Beatrix Lehmann – ad
(went on to be performed at the Bristol Old Vic)
Monday, Mar 21, 1949
Mention of They Walk alone revival and originally played by Miss Beatrix Lehmann
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