An inter-city knock-out bidding competition : first semi-final
Birmingham v. Bristol
L. N. Sayer Mrs. G. Griffiths G. B. Hill J. C. Oxland
Introduced by Terence Reese and Harold Franklin
This is one of the hands to be bid. The programme is recorded and the players had no advance knowledge of the cards at the time of bidding
West is the dealer at love-all

A magazine programme
Opera by Luchino Visconti
Verdi's opera Don Carlos will be performed for the centenary of the present Royal Opera House, London, on May 15.
Luchino Visconti , the producer-who is - the exponent not only of neo-realist Italian films and modern drama but of nineteenth-century and Renaissance style in opera-talks to Carl Wildman about the problems involved in the stage production of this Italian form of theatre.
The British Repertory Movement
The function of the Repertory Theatre in this country's dramatic life and the methods of overcoming its difficulties discussed by: Sir Barry Jackson
Founder and Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
George E. Gedde 's of the Dundee Repertory Theatre and Chairman of the Council of Repertory Theatres
Charles Landstone of the Bristol Old Vic
Val Gielgud
Head of BBC Drama is in the Chair
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