LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 10

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 12th February. Miss Isabel Wilford has been cast for a small part in a new comedy which will be staged at St. James's Theatre on 17th February. The piece, which is a translation from the French (M. Jacques Doval), is entitled "Etienno," and it ran for a year in Franco. The translation is by Mr. Gilbert Wakcfieltl. The comedy will be produced by Mr. Nicholas Hannen. Among others in the cast will bo Miss Mary Clare, Miss Una O'Connor, Mr. Emlyn Williams, and Mr. David Home. In theatrical and Press circles tho news that Miss Marie Ney has accepted a special engagement for the Old Vie and Sadler's AVclls is hailed with much interest and pleasure. It was at the Old Vie that the very talented New Zealand actress made her lirst big successes in the Mother Country in 10'2i. She will play Baina in Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," with Mr. John Gielgud as Bluiitschli, Miss Dorothy Green as Louka, and Mr. Ralph Richardson as . Sorgius. This will bo the first Shaw part that siie has taken. Miss Key's engagement at the Old Vie will prevent her appearing in "Desire Under the Elms," the banned piny 1..y Mr. Kiif{i;ii<! O'Noill, which is ~) lie produced iit tho Onto Theatre shortly. New Zealand-bound passengers by tho Orient liner Ort'ord, leaving Tilbury on 14th February, include the fol-lowing:—Squadron-Leader C. I*. Can-, D.F.C., A.F.C., and Mrs. Curr, Miss J. Homo, Miss W. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Taylor, the Misses M. E. C. and L. F. P. Taylor. Earl Jcllieop, Countess Jollieoc, ond Lady Gwendoline Jellicoe have gone to St. Moritz for a winter holiday.-