All who care for good plays are in the debt
of the Phoenix Society for their fine productions of Elizabethan and Restoration drama. Marlowe's The Jew of Malta on November 5th and 6th will be the Society's first production this season. Later, the following plays will be given :—Ben Jonson's The Alchemiet, John Ford's lurid tragedy 'Tie Pity She's a Whore, and Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess with a new setting and costumes designed by Mr. Norman Wilkinson. We are glad to see in this pro- gramme that the Phoenix has returned to Elizabethan plays with a literary significance of the first water, after favouring the more futile plays of the Restoration. There is nothing pedantic about the work of the Society, the acting is generally beyond reproach, and in its productions the Phoenix has a standard of its own. No lover of English literature should miss an opportunity to attend these performances. An annual subscription of £2 12s. 6d. secures one seat for every production in the stalls or dress circle, or two seats in other parts of the house ; £4 48. doubles the accommodation. Surely this is the reverse of extravagance. Communications should be sent to the Secretary, Miss Freclman, The Phoenix Society, 36 South- ampton Street, W.C. 2. TeL No., Gerrard 6907.
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