Choosing a Play
A Brains Trust organised by the Birmingham and District
Theatre Guild
W. Bushill-Matthews, M.B.E.
Chairman of the Birmingham and District Theatre Guild
Hugh Willatt a director of Nottingham Playhouse
Derek Salberg a director of the Alexandra
Repertory Theatre. Birmingham Evelyn Gibbs Lecturer on Drama and English at the Teachers' Training College.
Edgbaston
The Brains Trust is questioned by an audience of members of the Birmingham and District Theatre Guild and various dramatic societies in and around Birmingham in the Theatre Centre, Islington Row.
In the chair, Leigh Crutchley
Drama Adviser to East Sussex

The match for the world championship of 1957-a three-cornered contest between Italy, the U.S.A., and the Argentine-ended yesterday.
Terence Reese has flown back from Como to tell the story of the match and to test two pairs:
Rixi Markus and Joel Tarlo and Boris Schapiro and Claude Rodrigue in the bidding of some hands that were played