Entertainments

THE THEATRES

MR. NOVELLO'S NEW

MUSICAL PLAY

Mr. Ivor Novello's new musical play, .The Dancing Years, with its scenes sct in Vienna before and after the War, will be the next production at Drury Lane in succession to The Babes in thle Wood. The fourth play of his to be seen at Drury Lane, it will be produced on a lavish scale by Miss Leontine Sagan, with Mr. Novello, Mviiss Mary Ellis, and Miss Roma Bcaumont in the leading parts. ivliss Ellis's part will be that of an opera singer, and Mir. Novello will be a composer. As wilh his last three plays, the new production will have a large supporting cast.

The long run of Frenrch Without Tears at the Criterion witl come to an end towvards the end of next month. The company will then visit Golders Green and Streatham. The next production at the Criterion will be Mliss Lcslev Storm's play, Tony Drawts a Horse, which was produced by Mr. William Armstrong at the Liverpool Playhouse in the spring. The leading part in London will be played by Miss Lilian Braithwaite. who has enjoyed some of her greatest successes at the Criterion. Tony is the seven-year-old mischievous son of a doctor. and the horse he draws, all unconscious of the trouble he is laying up for his familv, is a piece of juvenile drau-htsmanship on the wall near his father's consulting room. Tony is not in the cast. He perpetrates his mischief unseen and is frequentlv referred to, but never appears. Hiis pranks lead to domestic misunderstanding. The doctor secs the incident from one standpoint, his wife from a totally different one; argument on the matter becomes heated, and the wife leaves her husband and rcturns to her home.

Lit/le Ladytship. Ian Hay's adaptation of an Austrian light comedy, will bc given a preliminary run at Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Oxford before its presentation in London towards the end of February. The cast includes Miss Lilli Palmer, Mr. Cecil Parker. and Miss Joan White. Mr. Noel Coward's comedy. Design for Living. will be given its first performance in London at the Haymarket Theatre on January 25, with Miss Diana Wvnyard as Gilda, Mr. Rex Harrison as Leo, and Mr. Anton Walbrook as Otto. Mr. Harold French will be in charge of the production, and the scenery wvill be by Mvr. Roger Furse. In the film version the leading parts were played by Miss Miriam Hopkins, Mr. Fredric March, and NMr. Robert Montgomery. On the New York stage the Lunts and the author headed the cast.

The next production by the London International Theatre Club will be Adults Only, bv Mr. Reginald Beckwith and Mr. Andrevw Cruickshank. at the Globe Theatre on January 15 and 22. The cast will include Miss Edna Best, Mr. Nicholson Hannen, Miss Athene Scvler, Mr. Richard Ainley, Miss Eileen Beldon. Miss Dorice Fordred, and Mr. Bernard Lee. The producer...