RME0PT68–Feb. 02, 1957 - Mr. Norman Ginsbury, the well-known British playwright and author of man West End successes, is leaving in the ' Queen Elizabeth' this evening for New York, where his famous play about the Prince Regent, ''The First Gentleman'' is to have its American production at the National Theater on Broadway next month. Photo shows Mr. Norman Ginsbury seen packing at his Hampstead home - watched by his boxer dog ''Prince'
RME12HB3–Jan. 03, 2012 - KEEPING FIT THE EASY WAY...... AT AN AGE when her contemporaries are spending their time in wheel chairs, Dame Marie Rambert, founder of the oldest British ballet company keeps herself fit by rolling down hills, because fourteen years ago at the age of 70 she was ordered to give up cartwheels! This order came from her late husband, Ashley Dukes a successful playwright in his own right, and author os ''A Load of Mischief''. This play was so well received that he was able to buy his wife Mercury Theatre, Haymarket on the profits and this is where she opened her own ballet school
RME0WPB1–Jan. 01, 1964 - ''THE RELUCTANT PEER''. WILLIAM DOUGLAS-HOME, playwright brother of Prime Minister SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME, has written a play about a storybook British peer who gives up his title to stand for Parliament as Prime Minister (as did SIR ALEC). The play, entitled ''The Reluctant Peer'' will open at London's Duchess Theatre on January 15th. PHOTO SHOWS: Author WILLIAM DOUGLAS-HOME (centre) makes a comment to cause laughter to NAUNTON WAYNE who plays the Earl of Lister, and DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE who plays Countess of Lister.