SUCCESSFUL THEATRE
How Mermaid Prospers (Special Crtpdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON. May 30 A man with an extraondir ary flair for organtoMton and for finding talent is one description giver of 55-year-old Bernard Miles, the actormanager who runs the M.vmaid Thewtre at Puddle Dnek on the bank of the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge It is now four years since h. got the Mermaid she and raised the money to build the theatre. Today it is making a weekly profit of £15.000. Three plays which started out trt the Mermaid rt all now running in West End theatres and next wiek the theatre's current production goes tn the Strand. The secret of Miles s success is that he puts on good plays. The moat expens: ve seats cost only 17s 6d_ and he does not worry about star names for the east. The average wage at the Mermaid is £l7 to £lB a week and the principals get only £4O a week.
So far 1500 actors and actresses have worked fcr the Mermaid, many of them going on to West End success* s
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30146, 1 June 1963, Page 14
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