The disappearance of a London theatre in these days is
a serious loss, and whatever the merits of the moral disarmament plays which the Oxford Group, which has acquired the Westminster Theatre, just off Buckingham Gate, proposes to stage there, they will be small compensation for the loss of a house where the public has in recent years been served so well. It was at the Westminster, I believe, that Eugene O'Neill's great plays Mourning Becomes Electra and Desire Under the Elms were first introduced to London audiences, and the same is true of several notable Spanish plays. It might, indeed, be said of the Westminster that whatever was on there at the moment was sure to be worth seeing. With so many of the London theatres under syndicate-control, the existence of this independent
house had a special value.
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