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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)US27/258
TitleSir Barry Jackson Blackhill, Malvern, to Josephine Nicoll
Extent1 item
Date6 March 1944
DescriptionScott has returned to Birmingham to start work as Touchstone in As you like it tomorrow. Has put aside the profits from Too clever by half for Josephine Nicoll. Does not feel that the cast did as much as they could have done with the play. A London agent, Alec Clunes, John Gielgud and others have all made applications for the MS of the play Laura Knight is working on a portrait of a Glaswegian government official. He himself is occupied with the curriculum for the theatre school at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the completion of rehearsals for As you like it, the summer outdoor theatre programme, the question of a grant for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from the City Council and the question of a University School of Drama
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