The Best Way t o Mel bourne The new Sydney-Melbourne Daylight Express provides the best way to travel to Melbourne. • Comf o1•t: Relaxing in your adjustable seat in an artistic, air-conditioned car, you see the varied scenery through wide-vision windows as the express speeds smoothly behind its fast and powerful diesel electric locomotive. • Convenience : You leave Sydney at 7.45 a.m. (Monday, Wednesday or Friday) and arrive in Melbourne 13½hours later. Services from Melbourne are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Excellent meals and refreshments are obtainable in the buffet-diner car. Seat reserv­ ations can be made up to two months in advance of travel. 'i • Econo1ny: Jwi l-ffH NIGH1 Fares (including seat reserva­ by tions) are: 1st Class 2nd Class l Single, £6 I 0 £4 11 6 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Return, £9 17 0 £7 6 0 • Safety: The Rail Way is the Safe Way. COMM ISSIONER FOR RAILWAYS / The Austr alian Elizabethan Theatre Trust PATRO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN PRESJDENT ........................The Rt. Hon. S1r John Latham, G.C.M.G., Q.C . ••••••••••••••••••• CHAI RM A .....................................................................................................Dr. H. C. Coomhs EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ..........•..........•....•........................................................Hugh Hunt So EASY to play .. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ...........................................................................James Mill s HO . SECRETARY .............................................................................................Maurice Park~r BOARD F THE AUSTRALIA DRJ\M.'\ COMP A Y: Mr. Warwick Fairfax, Chairman Mr. Frank J. Mc Kenna, C.B.E. Mr. C. J. A. Mo .es, C.B.E. Mr. Rupe1 t Murdoch Mr. Clive Ogilvy Professor Keith McCartney The purpose of the Au stralian Drama Company is to form a continuing theatrical company similar in its aims to the Old Vic and to the Comedie Francaise, with its artists drawn principally from Austr alia, though from time to time it is hoped to welcome guest artists from overseas. Its repertoire will be mainly of a classical nature, but it is hoped to include Au stralian plays of proved worth as well as new Europ ean plays . so easy to OWN This Company was first launched at the Elizabethan Theatre with Medea, in which Ju 0dith Anderson played the leading part, and this play, after its It's easy to play a musical mstrument . ano Nicholson's convenient term s make it so eas)' phenomena lly successful season in Sydney, was toured successfully to all to own one. You can choose from a vas? range of good quality Piano Accordions capital cities of the Comm onwealth. Pianos, Guitars . Clarinets Saxop hones Violins, Flutes, Trump ets . Tr ombones Drums and all type s of mu sical accesso rie s The majority of the players from the Medea Company are in the current Write today for full information two productio ns of <fwelfth N_ight and 'The Rivals, and we welcome some EASY TERMS GLADLY ARRANGED new faces also who are joining the Company to help consolidate its position in Australian drama tic life. Amon g these is Ray Lawler, who is playing Feste in <fwe lfth N_ight and is also the author of Summer of tlie Seventeenth ~~ Doll. ~1f!.u;oa,t c.,..t.u~ .. r-..vflv"f 11r,.,,<J] 416 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY . 'PHONE BL164 1. This play made a considerable impression when it was produced here earlier this year, and, in answer to constant requests, we are happy to rc:vivc "'YOU GET THE BEST AT NICHOLSON'S'· it with the same cast, some of whom are now joining the Austr alian Drama ••••••••••••••••••• Company in this second sea on. At the conclusion of the Sydney season, the three plays, <fwelfth N_ight, 'The Rivals and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, will leave Sydney on a Commonwealth tour . Th e Elizabethan Theatre is most happy to be associated with the birth of this important venture. 3 "·- -=-= :~=;,.;,r ~§ail~Jj,e-"'"': -~-, ::·.~= - .- . , ;_---.:a - _:_·• .:._ ::- ~~- - ·:=~-~~-::-~-~:~;__·~ t - .. -~, :_- - --~,-I!4~:~ ~ S...I~ :-_:;.::_.=.:-=-· - ~\ . -- - -· .. ·-.;~ -~ --- · ~-:.- -:-~: :-:-= ~ ~~ -.1 ......~ --:-::..,. ..- · -·- . .... - Since his present appoint­ ment as execut ive director of the Austr alian - Elizabethan T heatre Trust in February of last year, hi herculean efforts have stirred the imagination of all interested in the development of the Australia n Theat re. The choice of T welfth ight is a happy one, as his direction of this play with Roger Livesay, Ursul a Jeans and Peggy Ashcroft, scored a personal triumph when it re-opened theO id Vic. Th eatre, London, in 1949. To his work with the T rust and the Elizabet han Th eatre he brings a wealth of background experie nce. He wa educate d at Marl­ borough ollege; Magdalene The Globe Theatre, on the river Thames, London in the year 1599. College, 0 x f o r d (B.A. Oxon); Sorbonne, Paris; and In the steps of Shakespeare Heidelberg niversity, Ger­ many. From 1935-1938 Here is a bird's eye view of the Glob e Theatre - early English horn< directed the Abbey Th eatre, of Elizabethan drama . Dub lin. Durin g the war Built on the Bank side, Southwark , London, in 1599 during the reign of the served in the King' s Royal first Queen Elizabeth, the Globe saw the production of many of Shakespeare'~ Rifle Corps with the rank of plays. He appeared in some of them . Major. He was the first director and produ cer of the Bristol Old Vic lbe Globe was almost circular in design, and for ventilation was partly oper> Comp any from 1946-1948, when he left to take over direction of the to the sky. It could accommodate 1,20 0 spectator s. Old Vic Theatre, London. In the next four years his production s NEW ELIZABETHAN THEATRE included Tw elfth Night , Love's Labour Lost, Julius Caesar, to mention Today, in the reign of the second Queen Elizabeth, Australia has a link with but a few. The year 1954 found him adjudicatin g the Canadian D rama the cherished past in this new Elizabethan Theatre. Kno,· n formerly as the Festival finals; lectur ing at Ameri can Univ ersities, and directing The Majestic, it can seat more than 1,500 patron s. U~like th~ _Gl?b c, the sky does Living Room at the H enry Miller Th eatre, ew York. He has two not provide its ventilation - in modem words, air cond1uorung. publications to his credit , "Old Vic Prefaces" ( 195 3) and "Th e Oil from SHE LL refineries is being used in theatres throu ghout Australia, nm Di rector in the Theatre. " Last year he directed Judith And erson and only for the maintenance of air conditi oning plants, fans, and filters. but tn ~ the Australian Dram a Company in l\f edea. many other aspects of theatre production and management. 5 sta~e, screen a d has starred on fral,an theatre n d" television. A ~b his Don j~h~en_ces ..will reme'::i: ' Mout Nothing" ,d Much Ado acbeth" w"th an Banque · t~eaEre IMemo/ial T~heeatfirsCt Shak~~ ng and h re omp Gielgud at ~h played with Jant ln the theatre-as in real life- perfect 0 HLilian s'ay r,s, ande thOld y·,c undern groom ing, be it casual or form al, is of ri8nry V at Stratf d title role in , m performan . or -on- Avon H" With the L ~~s include "Th . ,s In t I . amp and "R b" e Lady the utmost importance. e ev,sion h O in Hood •• Henry y e starred . · "J 1· and also again as When you choose Hosiery by Jtes li9t u ius Caesar" as Cassius in After t · New zealand a ouri of., A ustralia and yon can be assured of per£ ect grooming opposite Soph. nS Dear Cha rl " the Mede ,e tewart, he .. es £or your legs, through perfect fit, Jason r:'·Chompany in the 1olined h h · 15 obby · f ro e of he as arranged ,s encing, and Olivier in ,s double bill , .. ;anyaesar famouand Cls sta ge duels , incl ntd' ony and .Cl or aurence fashionable styles and colours which ~-------=~ e=o~p=a~tr~a~" aand :. ,hng the fights f L - will blend or contrast with your £rock­ '"'Th eopatra' ere is no 1ove sincerer them the love of food ,. ing, depending on your wish and your · Bernard Shaw. choice. We are proud that Hosi ery by ~cesli9t ha been chosen £or the talented and discriminating actresses who appea r in this theatre. Wh ere WGood Food an d me are combined -· _,..,__ ttOSl!!RY , L!N G!!Rll! AND pABR!CS with superb ser VICe. and magnificent scenery. Here an arou,id-the-clock welco me awaits you M • tne Host S 69 Bynya Roai PEARSON 'Telephone. p ' Palm Beach . am1 Beach 4050 7 Vienna Opera Star for Australian Opera Company Mozart JubileeEditi on 1956 From the du,t and ruhblc of war deva station a new Vienna State pera House ha,, arisen as a monument to the devct1 on and unshakeable helief of a country 111 it culture and heritage. ow. at a cost of nearly GIO I £4,000,000, Vienna has once again taken a leading place in the world of mus'c. The re-opening of the Opera House late la t year provided Vienna K.527 with one of the ha pp1est and most glittering night· 10 1t, hi tory. An Auto-couplin g in special presentati on leat her box with a international audience of music lover s, thirty page booklet containing Ita lian /Englis h Libretto, diplomat s and statesmen crowded the photographs of the artists taken duri ng the reco rding and a foyers. Out idc, in the grounds and the st reets, many thousand of Vien, special introduction by DR.