Am Early Favourite

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 7

Am Early Favourite

Princess: Elizabeth narrowly escaped being mobbed-by an admiring crowd which gathered outside the Cambridge Theatre, where she attended her first play, states the "Daily Telegraph."

The Boyal car; in wliich were the Duchess of York and the little Princess, drove up and stopped at the main entrance of the theatre, where a crowd of men and women had been waiting for more than an hour to-greet them. The "chauffeur, however, was told to drive on to a private door at the side of the theatre As. the car moved off the crowd.made.frantic efforts to follow it, but. policemen.also hurried round to the door. and were just in time to prevent them, .pressing, too closely on the Boyal car.

The, little Princess, wearing a red coat over her red frock and. no hat on her bright .curls, gave a skip of. excitement as she went into the theatre. Oil her-arrival she was presented : with a

box of chocolates ahd a posy by litt'lo Suzanne, 'daughter' of Mrs.1' Warren Pearl.' The play—"Ever So Long Ago","■ by Laui-a Wi.ldig and Marcus Magill—was presented in aid of the St. John's Clinic and Institute of Physical Medicine. It is ia cheerful melange of: fairies, "bogles," enchanted princesses, wizards, and spells, and animals that talk. There is pleasant incidental music by Messrs. Temple Abady and Tony Lowry, and some charming ballets arranged by Dorie'e Stainer.; . . Princess Elizabeth gazed entranced part of the play was about another golden-haired Princess not so very much older than herself. She chuckled with delight when, the king, having eaten a magic'plum,'appeared ■with a nose Bft long, and "when1 the three-headed ogre was;killed, by the hero, she applauded as loudly as any of the'other children present. ■ ... Over 30 little children dressed in ivory and scarlet carried round trays of sweets during the interval, and business.'was .decidedly brisk among the four-, and five-year-olds. -..