Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 08 March 1946
The Round table – arts council production by BL
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 15 March 1946
Round table – preview
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 22 March 1946
Round table ad
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 29 March 1946
A play produced by Beatrix Lehmann at the Town Hall for three nights each
month is a great joy… Photo of Bea with the Mayor and
mayoress and Regional director and assistance regional director – more details
about Arts Council work.
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 12 April 1946
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Friday 19 April 1946
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Friday 26 April 1946
Ad for Town Hall, return visit of the Arts Council Midland
Theatre company performing The rising Sun by Herman Jeijermans produced by Beatrix Lehmann
Perfomance April 29, 30th and May 1st booking openings April
15th
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 03 May 1946
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 10 May 1946
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 10 May 1946
Ad for Arts Council Midlands production of The Anatomist by James Bridie on
May 23, 24th and 25th
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 24 May 1946
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 31 May 1946
Ad for Arts Council Midlands production of The Maitlands by Ronald Mackenzie
produced by BL AND Michael Langham, June 11-13th
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 24 May 1946
Arts Council Midlands Anatomist – review
“Those responsible for the Arts Council Midlands selection of plays certainly
believe in the power of terror, if not of pity… (Did Bea choose the plays?
Could check Arts Council Midlands notes?)…
“once again the team work of the company is excellent and
reflects great credit upon the producer BL. The subtle effect of varying speeds
adds greatly to the life and vigor of the performance, and there is a confidence
and a certainty about the interpretation of the whole play which is most
impressive.
Bath
Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 15 June 1946
Candles at nine ad.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Thursday 27 June 1946
BBC home service – “The walls are down” will celebrate the
foundation of the Retreat at York…
one hundred and fifty years ago a group of humane philanthropists set out to
ameliorate the unhappy lot of patients in mental homes. They founded the
Retreat, where for the first time the insane were treated as sick human beings
and not, with chains and brutal punishments, like mad dogs. The patients’
response was immediate, and the new treatment made medical history. Mr Edward
Livesey, who has written the programme, spent three
Lancashire Evening Post -
Saturday 29 June 1946
The walls are down – report
“Beatrix Lehmann as a woman doctor, heads the cast”.
Western Morning News - Saturday 20 July 1946
Vicious circle – preview “Miss Beatrix Lehmann BAD and AG brilliantly portray
the unsavoury trio whose atonement consists of being very quarrelsome, falling
in love and talking to, of at each other. This play makes arresting if somewhat
unpleasant entertainment.”
Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 20 July 1946
Candles at nine showing
Western Morning News - Tuesday 10 December 1946
Arts theatre club – Fatal curiosity
“is a bloodthirsty play written about 150 years ago. A young
man returns to his home after making his fortune abroad, and to play a joke on
his parents (now destitute) he does not reveal his identity. They, on the point
of starvation, murder him for the casket of jewels he has handed to his mother
for safe keeping.
It has some good theatrical moments, but unfortunately
Miss Beatrix Lehmann’s production is a burlesque. It may be fun to those who are amused by a
stage littered with corpses. The play is
being shown in a double programme with Christopher Fry’s witty trifle, “a
phoenix too frequent.”
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 10 January 1947
Shakespeare festival
“The two principal artistes will be BL who will play the
Nurse, Porita, and Robert Harris…
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 14 March 1947
Shakespeare festival, “the company of 50, headed by BL,
Robert Harris, Walter Hudd and Paul Scofield rehearse morning and night in
foyers and on stage… The season opens April 5th with Romeo and Juliet.
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 21 March 1947
Shakespeare festival – ad
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 21 March 1947
Shakespeare festival – “BL one of Britain’s finest actresses, was
secured for the nurse”.
Cheltenham Chronicle -
Saturday 22 March 1947
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 04 April 1947
Cheltenham Chronicle -
Saturday 05 April 1947
Shakespeare festival – ad
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 11 April 1947
Shakespeare festival opens with Romeo and Juliet – review
“As the nurse – a younger and more vigorous nurse than usual
– Beatrix Lehmann also scored a triumph, with none of the monotony which mars many a
performance in this part.”
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 18 April 1947
Shakespeare festival festival ad
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 18 April 1947
Shakespeare festival 12th night review/preview
12th night will form the climax … will be attended by
ambassadors, ministers and other representatives of more than 30 nations who
are visiting Stratford
to take part in the day’s celebrations…
Tempest May 9th, King Richard II, June 13th, Merchant of Venice July 11th,
Pericles August 15th
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 25 April 1947
Shakespeare festival 12th night review
“Beatrix Lehmann’s viola is a most interesting piece of work, lacking
some of the grace of the Viola of one’s dreams, but with genuine tenderness and
understanding. She is an older Viola than usual but her deep voice “pairs”
better with Sebastian’s than does the more familiar soprano, and makes one feel
that the inhabitants of Illyria were not quite
deaf after all…”
Western Morning News - Saturday 10 May 1947
Actor’s equity article, when Beatrix Lehmann was president – important
campaigning.
“equity seeks 100 percent membership” annual meeting was 9
May 1947 “Miss Beatrix Lehmann in her presidential address, said people who went into the
profession would have to be properly trained. “The state,” she said, “must
continue its relationship towards us that was so strong during the war. The
managers must also help us in this task, which will be to their good and to
their advantage”.
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 06 June 1947
Shakespeare festival Richard II – preview
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 20 June 1947
Shakespeare festival Richard II review
“In the Duchess Miss Beatrix Lehmann had a role which fitted her to
perfection….”
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 18 July 1947
Shakespeare festival Merchant of Venice
review
“as Portia Beatrix Lehmann plays her most important role this season, and
it is certainly her best. If she fails to charm us by her feminine wiles, she
gains our admiration for the tremendous power which she gives to the trial
scene. I would much prefer to see a deeply intelligent interpretation of Portia
such as Miss Lehmann gives than one which allures…”
Western Morning News - Saturday 04 October 1947
Shakespeare festival Richard II, - review of Stratford
upcoming London
productions
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 16 January 1948
Stratford Poison pen by Richard Llewellyn.
“Beatrix Lehmann leading actress of the 1947 Shakespeare festival, will
return to Stratford
to play the terrifying role of the crazed writer of anonymous letters in
Richard Llewellyn’s play, Poison pen, which Oldham Repertory Company will
present at the memorial theatre for the week commencing Feb 9th.”
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 06 February 1948
Poison pen ad
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 06 February 1948
Poison pen – preview/review , “she takes the part of Phryne,
the neurotic sister of a vicar, in whose parish she creates havoc and tragedy
by anonymous letter writing. The play abounds with suspense which is relieved
by intensely human and amusing character studies.”
Leamington Spa Courier -
Friday 20 February 1948
Beatrix Lehmann at Westham House
Leaders of Warwickshire Youth Clubs attended a most
interesting drama court at Westham House, Barford, during the weekend when
leading figures of the Stratford Memorial Theatre gave generous help and advice
on production and stage management.
On Saturday afternoon the party attended the matinee of
Poison Pen in which Miss Lehmann took the leading part. The next morning, immediately
after breakfast, Miss Lehmann was at Westham. After an introductory talk on the
development of dramatic gesture and diction, Miss Lehmann personally conducted a model
rehearsal of a scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Western Morning News - Monday 10 May 1948
Cruelty cases in pantomime – equity charges…
The president, MBL told them, “The theatre is a public
institution. We do not have to apologize for the creative, thoughtful side of
the theatre –calling it entertainment- because the larger public is supposed to
fear thought in their leisure hours”.
Western Daily Press - Monday 05 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Tuesday 06 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 07 July 1948
Bristol
– Theatre Royal – No trees in the street – ad
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 07 July 1948
PHOTO No trees in the street preview
Western Daily Press - Thursday 08 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Friday 09 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Saturday 10 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Tuesday 13 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 14 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Thursday 15 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Friday 16 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Saturday 17 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Monday 19 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Tuesday 20 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 21 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Thursday 22 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Friday 23 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Saturday 24 July 1948
Western Daily Press - Monday 26 July 1948
Theatre Royal (Bristol)
The British Group present Beatrix Lehmann in the brilliant play success No trees in the
street by Ted Willis.
For two weeks, nightly at 2, Mat wed and sat – ad
Western Daily Press - Tuesday 13 July 1948
Theatre Royal – Bristol No
trees in the street – review
“low tragedy of ignoble minds overthrown by piercing is
squalid and enormously effective...the
subject matter is distasteful to many, but the play is about something of
current importance, the generation of vicious young criminals – and the author
does not set out primarily to shock,,, BL faithfully avoided the remotest hint
of a demanding feature, and almost made us believe in the mother who sells her
daughter for £20, while John Stratton as the 18 year old murderer was
uncomfortably convincing…
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Wednesday 28 July 1948
No trees in the street – St James’ theatre – London
“Yorkshire actor’s success
A critical London
audience this evening warmly confirmed at St James Theatre the friendly verdict
of provincial theatre-goes, already refered to in these notes, on Mr. Ted
Willis’s crime drama, “no trees in the street”. Mr. John Stratton, the young Yorkshire actor whose career I described last week, gave
a vivid performance as an 18 year old slum boy who, as the victim of bad
companions and environment, develops quickly into a gunman and murderer.
It is Mr Stratton’s first West End
appearance, and he told me later that despite the play’s success on tour, he
suffered badly from first night nerves before the curtain rose tonight. MBL as
the youth’s too-bad-to-be-true mother, was as terrifying as was Miss Freda
Jackson as the slatternly virago in No room at the inn.
Western Morning News - Thursday 29 July 1948
No Trees in the street – st james theatre – review
“Rather naïve… the story tries to show how life there
produces crooks and killers. East enders will probably be annoyed at the
picture portrayed, but despite its over theatricality, the play has many good
points. John Stratton and Charmian Eyre played their parts well, but Beatrix Lehmann
disappointed. (First bad review)
Hull
Daily Mail - Monday 04 April 1949
Hull
– New theatre (new play?) ad next week
BL in The corn is green
Hull
Daily Mail - Friday 08 April 1949
Actresses Jubilee
The corn is green – preview
“The appearance of Miss Beatrix Lehmann in next week’s production of The corn
is green at the New Theatre Hull, marks the silver jubilee of her acting
career. In Emlyn Williams’ noted play she takes the part of Miss Moffat, the
woman who overcomes all obstacles to bring enlightenment to the young people of
a remote Welsh village. Opposite ML is John Stratton (who was in No trees with
BL) a young actor who is making a rapid rise to fame.
Hull
Daily Mail - Saturday 09 April 1949
Hull
Daily Mail - Monday 11 April 1949
Hull
Daily Mail - Wednesday 13 April 1949
New Theatre Hull, The corn is green “all next week,
Haymarket Guild Theatre presents BL in The play that ran for 600 performances
in London. – ad
Hull
Daily Mail - Tuesday 12 April 1949
PHOTO! The corn is green – review
Play of Welsh village life rings true
EW’s strength is his simplicitgy and artistic handling of
dramatic suspense. This was apparent in the revival of The corn is green, … the
human relationship which is built up as the play progresses, is alive with
generosity, exasperation, sympathy, sacrifice, wit… As the idealist spinster
(!) who stakes everything on her private pupl, BL is the pivot of the play. Her
delicate and depp-rooted acting achieves the ultimate dramtic reality; she
embodies the whole truth and the purpose the dramatist’s message… her
interpretation of the part of Bessie Watty was thoroughly sound…
Western Daily Press - Monday 09 May 1949
Radio – BL and Walter Rilla in the Compelled people
9.15-10.45
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay
Herald - Saturday 11 March 1950
Two well known film personalities will be seen shortly on
the London
stage. John Mills returns to the London
theatre after a 5 year abscene to star with Beatrix Lehmann in The Damascas Blade, the other
actor John McCallum, appears in april in a new play Dangerous legacy,
Western Daily Press - Monday 20 March 1950
Damascus blade – Bristol
John Mills is coming to Bristol next week in a new play by Briget
Boland, author of the Cockpit. It is called the Damascus Blade and is at the
Hippodrome for a week. The play opened in Newcastle
last week and is touring before going to London.
BL, Austin Trevor, Barry Jones, Peter Finch and Mary Mackenzie are in the cast…
(No longer considered a draw?)
Western Daily Press - Saturday 25 March 1950
Western Daily Press - Monday 27 March 1950
Western Daily Press - Tuesday 28 March 1950
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 29 March 1950
Western Daily Press - Thursday 30 March 1950
Western Daily Press - Saturday 01 April 1950
Bristol Hippodrome – The Damascus blade
Laurence Olivier presents John Mills in the Damascus blade by Bridget
Boland with BL;,,,” - ad
(First time BL hasn’t gotten top billing in a tour of the
provinces in years)
Nottingham Evening Post -
Tuesday 27 June 1950
Radio – Third programme – Beatrix Lehmann in Ariadne
8.35-10.35
Nottingham Evening Post -
Friday 30 June 1950
Radio – Third programme – Beatrix Lehmann in Ariadne
6.20-8.30
Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 15 July 1950
Western Daily Press - Saturday 15 July 1950
Radio – Third programme – Beatrix Lehmann in Ariadne
6.55-8.35
Western Morning News - Wednesday 06 December 1950
Children’s theatre
One of the genuine pleasures of London’s theatre land are the regular
perfomances which the LCC promote to quicken the interest of secondary school
children in the serious works of the stage….
The players were a distinguished cast of 35 professional
actors and actresses, led by BL and the audience an enthusiastic gathering of
several hundred school children. Reginald Berkeley’s chronicle play, The lady
with the lamp, based on the life of Florence Nightingale was an admirable
choice, produced and interpreted with a fine understanding.
Sunderland Daily Echo and
Shipping Gazette - Monday 28 May 1951
The Taverner’s all amateur group with BL as one of their
patrons.
Sussex
Agricultural Express - Friday 30 November 1951
Brighton Theatre Royal
Ian Hunter, Walter Fitzgerald, Catherine Lacey, Beatrix Lehmann in The
Day’s mischief a new play by Leslie Storm (4th!!!)
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Wednesday 12 December 1951
Duke of York Theatre – The Day’s mischief -review
How rarely we feel in the theatre that given a certain set
of circumstances their inevitable result would be as the dramatist suggests..
Lesley Storm, whose capacity for drawing oddly inhibited women amounts almost
to genius, offers in The day’s mischief, an uncommonly realistic drama of small
town life. The local journalists’s daughter has a crush on her school master.
Essentially it is a harmless enough business on both sides but the outcome is
stark tragedy. The foolish girl runs away..The suspiciou of murder grows… and
the poor woman kills herself.
Though one or two scenes are a little long drawn, characterization and dialogue are gripping. The play,moreover is finely acted by Ian Hunter, BL,…
Though one or two scenes are a little long drawn, characterization and dialogue are gripping. The play,moreover is finely acted by Ian Hunter, BL,…
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Tuesday 16 December 1952
The Mexican film BL did the dubbing for reviewed (the devil
is a woman)
Yorkshire Evening Post -
Saturday 03 October 1953
Peter Ustinov’s No Sign of the Dove Grand Theatre – Leeds opening October 19
The play is directed by the author and stars BL (first
again!) Raymond Huntley, Miles Malleson and Robin Bailey. Alvys Maben has an
important role as Robin Bailey’s wife.
Peter Ustinov says, The theme is serious, and the characters
comic. They are people for whom life is but an imitation of thought and art;
people so accustomed to the stratosphere of refined prattle, and so blinkered
by the confines of their peculiar intellects, that a breath of good, honest air
is liable to knock them senseless.
These fragile and pretentious people I have confronted with
the anger of nature in its most far reaching form”.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Tuesday 06 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Wednesday 07 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Thursday 08 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Friday 09 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Saturday 10 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Tuesday 13 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Thursday 15 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Friday 16 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Saturday 17 October 1953
Grand Theatre Leeds - Peter Ustinov’s new play, No Sign of
the dove staring Beatrix Lehmann, Raymond Huntley, Miless Malleson – ad
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Tuesday 20 October 1953
Grand Theatre Leeds – No
sign of the dove – review
Mr Ustinov has cause to be proud.
Mr Ustinov has cause to be proud.
“profound, rousing and brilliantly funny… it is a
continuously witty play, often a sparkling uproar of a play, something of a
comedy of manners, almost a bedroom farce at times, occasionally a sober
discussion… it is consistently a play of intelligence, of keen and probing
satire, of sense and sensivitivy. In all this high and magnificent comedy there
are BL and Raymond Huntley to shudder deliciously and be shocked by life… a
distinguished play with a distinguished cast…
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Tuesday 20 October 1953
Grand Theatre Leeds – No
sign of the dove – review
PHOTO – “The author.. reading a message of congratulation
after the first production, at Leeds Grand Theatre last night, of No sign of
the dove. With him are some of the cast…
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Wednesday 21 October 1953
Yorkshire Post and Leeds
Intelligencer - Thursday 22 October 1953
Grand theatre Leeds, No sign of the dove – ad
A world premier, BL, Raymond Huntley, Miles Malleson in Peter
Ustinov’s No sign of the dove…
Bucks Herald - Friday 13 November 1953
New Theatre Oxford production of No sign of the dove
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