Old Vic Saga

London: Winchester Publications, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 8vo. 239 pages, indexed, With 123 illustrations in black and white and a colour frontispiece. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. The publication date is taken from Trove, as the book offers none. Signed by Harcourt Williams. CONTENTS: A lamp is lit The game begins Gaslight nights Robert Atkins Personalities and powers A merrie Andrew My watch Sadler's Wells renascent The working-day world Plummet sound The Laughton invasion Henry Cass Guthrie returns Lilian Baylis The storm threatens The storm breaks A new Phoenix The gods depart 'Other knee, sonnie' All's well Plays and their producers: the Old Vic and the Old Vic Theatre Company Players at the Old Vic and with the Old Vic Theatre Company. "Ernest George Harcourt Williams (30 March 1880 - 13 December 1957) was an English actor and director. After early experience in touring companies he established himself as a character actor and director in the West End. From 1929 to 1934 he was director of The Old Vic theatre company; among the actors he recruited were John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. After directing some fifty plays he resigned the directorship of the Old Vic but continued to appear in the company's productions throughout the rest of his career. He appeared in thirty cinema and television roles during his later years." (Wikipedia)