The Committee of the Phoenix announce that the first prods"
tion of their present season—Otway's tragedy Venice Presetv'd- will be given at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (by arrange ment with Mr. Nigel Playfair), on the 28th and 30th .mat- Sunday evening and Tuesday afternoon. The play will be produced by Mr. Allan Wade in the setting designed by lb Norman Wilkinson, with Mies Cathleen Nesbitt in the part .1 "Belvidere," Miss Edith Evans as " Aquilina," Mr. Ball° Holloway as "Pierre," and Mr. Ion Swinley as " Jaffier." Later productions of the season will include Ben Jonson's Volpost, Dekker and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton, Dryden's Au Pr Lace, and Bon Jonson's Bartholomew Fair. Applications for membership should be made to the Secretary at the Society's address, 36 Southampton Street, Strand. Telephone, 6907 Gerrard.
We wish the Phoenix success in its gallant venture. We can assure them that there are plenty of people eagerly waiting to see whether, though it is no impossible to read Venice Presered, it may conquer them when it comes across the footlights as effec- tively as did Dryden's Marriage-a-la-Mode. "You never can tell" is a maxim more absolute in its application to the drama than to almost anything else in the world.
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