• * * * This is the Shakespeare Birthday Week,
and there' is great dramatic activity on all sides. By a miracle of local patriotism and devotionto a great idea, an astonish- ing achievement has taken place at Stratford-upon-Avon. The curtain rang up on King Henry IV—Part II at the appointed day and hour- as if there had been no fire to destroy the Memorial Theatre. No praise can be too high for all who have played- their • part in helping to convert a local cinema into a temporary home for the Spring Festival, with which our dramatic .critic will deal next week. Romeo and Juliet is the Birthday play at the " Old Vic," and Coriolanus at Stratford. Miss Sybil Thorridike, is giving one special performance of Hamlet at the Lyceum, and an, eminent Italian actor—Signor Ruggeri—is at the Globe in the same play, Last, but not least, Sir-Frank Benson is-at the King's Theatre, Hammer- smith, where, one hopes, if only for the sake of old tinies, that he will have a successful season. And then they say we have forgotten Shakespeare ! * - * * *
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