THE guide to the Leeds Festival of Britain celebrations says that Leeds is a city in which the present over-weighs the past. “It’s vigour,” it declares, “is more noticeable than the intimations of a past age.” Yorkshire Post
Spotters seek 766 prizes in Leeds shops
LEEDS shoppers eagerly scanned shop windows to-day for the 766 prizes offered in connection with Leeds Shopping Festival organised by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce as a contribution to the City’s Festival of Britain Week. First claim for a prize – a Biro pen – was made half an hour…
Y.S.O. Festival of British Music
A Festival of British Music by the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra began in Leeds Town Hall on Saturday night with the first of seven concerts. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Lieut.-Colonel F. Eric Tetley and Mrs. Tetley) and many other prominent citizens were in the audience. The chief work was…
Festival prizes in Leeds shops
SCHOOLBOYS in Leeds have discovered a new form of spotting that may prove more profitable than railway engine numbers. The spotting competition organised by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce during the city’s Festival celebrations, has started them scanning shop windows for the 766 prizes. Yorkshire Post
‘A Sleep of Prisoners’
The Pilgrim Players’ performance of Mr. Christopher Fry’s new play, “A Sleep of Prisoners,” at St. George’s Church, Leeds, this week, should prove to be one of the most important events in the city’s Festival of Britain celebrations. First, the producers and four actors are the original company which gave…
Guild of singers
Music’s appeal, so far as the size of audiences goes, is sometimes mystifying. The Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra have played British music to many empty seats in Leeds Town Hall lately. Last night at St. Chad’s Church, Far Headingley, was hardly big enough for the numbers who were drawn by a…
“IN GOOD KING CHARLES’S GOLDEN DAYS”
“A TRUE history that never happened” is how the author (George Bernard Shaw) described this comedy. The year is 1680, in the library of Isaac Newton’s house in Cambridge, and the action illustrates what might have happened if Charles II had called upon the philospoher Newton, at the same time…
‘Tom Jones’ at Temple Newsam
Fine singing by the principlas and chorus marked the opening performances on Saturday of Temple Newsam’s second open-air Festival production , “Tom Jones.” The production is the first combined effort of the British Legion Players (Leeds Central branch) and the Hunslet Choral and Operatic Societies. Principals whose singing and clear…
Rain hits Leeds “Tom Jones”
The afternoon rain in Leeds on Saturday afternoon prevented the strings and tympani from playing in the first open-air performance of Tom Jones. But the audience stayed and the players sang on to the accompaniment of woodwind and brass. Conditons were more suitable in the evening and the performance was…
Y.S.O. end their fourth year
With the final Festival of Britain concert, given in Leeds on Saturday night, came also the end of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra’s fourth year. After a Third Programme broadcast with the Leeds Philharmonic Society in a Delius concert next Friday, the orchestra will take a well-earned rest before embarking on…