Plays and references from local newspapers on the British newspaper Archive 1925-1935

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Saturday 03 December 1927 ,  Gloucester Journal ,  Gloucestershire, England

The sketch Christmas issue 1927 features short story by Beatrix Lehmann

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 09 April 1929

Gale Theatre Studio – The race with the shadow

Review with plot description.

"Miss Beatrix Lehmann gave a strongly arresting performance as the unstable and passionate wife..."

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 20 June 1929

All Gods’ Chillin – The court  - review

"Miss Beatrix Lehmann (of the Gate Theatre) acted with extraordinary power in the part of the white girl. She has a strange, almost eerie personality, and her fits of raving against her husband, changing suddenly to childish affection and then again to horror, are weirdly true to he character she plays. Miss Lehmann  gives a wonderfully vivid idea of the agony of overwrought nerves. AGC is curiously moving, one might almost say disturbing, and it may prove too much for the theatregoers of London..."

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 27 September 1929

The Silver Tassie

plot outline – looking for a theatre

“I was glad to heat that one of the two girls is to be played by Miss Beatrix Lehmann who has long been a pillar of the productions of the Gate Theatre Studio, where she is now acting in Grand Guignol..."

Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 27 February 1931

On the Spot which has had 12 months success in London will be touring at the Theatre Royal (Nottingham) next week – Miss Beatrix Lehmann supporting cast

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 17 March 1931

On the Spot – Theatre Royal (Leeds)

Excellent too in looks and voice, is Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Maria Pouliski

Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 09 May 1932

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 01 June 1933

Wild Decembers Apollo Theatre (PHOTO OF BEA AS EMILY BRONTE!!!!)

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 08 July 1933

Talking about C. B. Cochran visiting BL when she was in Wild Decembers,

He evidently made a tour of the artists rooms to thank them for their services, for he came to see MBL whose performance as Emily Bronte was the saving grace of an ordinary, episodic play. Cochran came in; he looked round and still smiling reservedly made his way to Miss Lehmann and in the same soft voice as he shook hands said simply, Thank you very very much and quietly went out again.

Aberdeen Journal - Tuesday 24 October 1933

Tudor Wench –summary and review

 It is a remarkably vivid and interesting play, splendidly acted with Beatrix Lehmann as Elizabeth.

Edinburgh Evening News - Friday 27 October 1933

The Tudor Wench Embassy (Opened on Monday 23) – review

Beatrix Lehmann suggests very plausibly the sort of girl Elizabeth might have been, mingling hardness with tenderness and ambition with romanticism. The way in which she receives news of the page-boy’s death with phrases of conventional concern shows an unerring knowledge of one side of Elizabeth’s character. (then mentions the duel)

Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 18 November 1933

Alhambra – Tudor Wench

Give BL in the name part the chance of showing Elizabeth in some of her most commanding aspects.

Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 18 November 1933

Alhambra – Tudor Wench Word for word repeat of the Echo story

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 29 January 1934

Radio production of Wild Decembers 9.20 pm Scottish national

Western Morning News - Tuesday 30 January 1934

Warsaw radio broadcast of Wild Decembers

Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 30 January 1934

Today’s radio – National broadcast of  Wild Decembers

Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 30 January 1934

National Broadcast of Wild Decembers

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 30 January 1934

National broadcast of Wild Decembers with photo and description states that of original cast 2 members will repeat their performance Beatrix Lehmann will be Emily "Her performance was regarded as the high spot of the London production"

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 30 January 1934

National broadcast of Wild Decembers

Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday 30 January 1934

National broadcast of Wild Decembers

Hartlepool Mail - Tuesday 30 January 1934

National broadcast of Wild Decembers with photo

Beatrix Lehmann to play her original part – headline rest repeated and same photo reproduced..

Gloucestershire Echo - Tuesday 30 January 1934

Wild Decembers radio play

Aberdeen Journal - Friday 16 February 1934

Success story –  Cambridge Theatre

Review – and plot summary

Poor Russian jew and his secretary “Magnificant acting made the unrealities believable. Beatrix Lehmann as the jewish girl Secretary,….

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 16 February 1934

Success story –  Cambridge Theatre – review

Sarah, Miss Beatrix Lehmann was kept in a state of emotional agony from which there was no escape. Which was a pity for sardonic humour is also Miss Lehmann’s strong suit and there was no room for it here.

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 03 March 1934

Report saying Katherine Hepburn will take the part of Elizabeth in the film version of the Tudor Wench which Beatrix Lehmann did on stage.

Dundee Courier - Saturday 16 June 1934

Lists Rumour of Heaven in Books received

Dundee Courier - Tuesday 14 August 1934

Rumour of Heaven – review

The fascination of this achievement in fiction will elude popular sense and taste. Readers alert to fine nuances of vital drama and to selective art of words will absorb with delight and pain the sweet and bitter of its story of a famous dancer who develops a mental oddity. Her devoted husband seeks and finds a rural retreat. The sequel is tragedy, wistful as autumnal sunlight. (I don’t think he read past the first few chapters)

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 01 September 1934

Eden End – Priestley – announcement will open September 13

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 14 September 1934

Eden End

Review and plot “Throughout the acting is first-rate. Miss Beatrix Lehmann as the actress daughter, is somewhat overcharged with sentimental emotionalism, but it is as a tender portrait, for all its thoughtless inconsistencies.

Grantham Journal - Saturday 09 February 1935

Article – Good housekeeping Feb 1935, Beatrix Lehamann actress and novelist.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 16 April 1935

"Conrad Veidt has evidently settled now in England for good – and Germany’s loss is our gain. At the moment he is playing in Gaumont’s new version of JKJ evergreen play, The passing of the Third Floor Back, which Berthold Viertel who made Little friend is directing at Shepherd’s bush. Veidt has the part of the stranger, …among other members of the cast …and Beatrix Lehmann"

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 11 May 1935

Screen gossip for Conrad Veidt Passing of the third floor back

"Beatrix Lehmann I should add, is also in the film as one of the catty clientele of the boarding house

Born at Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, one of the earliest recollections of this gifted actress who for years understudied and played for Tallulah Bankhead is that of being “flung” into the river Thames by her father when she was three. Father apparently had a notion that all children fall into the water at some time or other so he forestalled Time by premarturely immersing Beatric and starting her off on the sport of swimming at which she is now expert.

She was once a member of a company called The English players all of whom were German except herself!

They toured the German Towns giving Shaw’s plays in English. All the German players had learnt English parrot fashion and greatly impressed the critics, all except one writer in a newspaper who gave it as his opinion that “all the players were excellent except Fraulein Lehmann who could not be understood!”

Moral: when in Germany speak English as the Germans do."

Gloucestershire Echo - Wednesday 14 August 1935

Pleasant portion – radio broadcast

Western Daily Press - Wednesday 14 August 1935

Pleasant portion by Barbara Couper, produced by Howard Rose with Gladys Young, BL, Joyce Bland, Renee de Vaux, Geoffrey Edwards, Gordon McLeod, Molly Hamley Clifford, Vivien Lambelet.

Dundee Courier - Wednesday 14 August 1935

Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 14 August 1935
Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 14 August 1935
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 14 August 1935
Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 14 August 1935
Hull Daily Mail - Friday 16 August 1935
Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 16 August 1935
Hartlepool Mail - Friday 16 August 1935
Northampton Mercury - Friday 16 August 1935

Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 16 August 1935
Pleasant portion radio – regional

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 17 August 1935

Review Pleasant Portion

The two daughters played by Beatrix Lehmann and Joyce Bland successfully conveyed the impression of two caged lives…

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 22 October 1935

The passing of the third floor back – review