Sixty years after the opening of a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford, W. Bridges-Adams, who was Director of the Theatre from 1919 to 1934, will tell listeners to Daventry something about the way in which this Warwickshire township has honoured the memory of its most famous son.
Barry Sullivan, Edward Compton, and Sir Frank Benson are among the famous actors who have directed the annual festival at Stratford, and there are few distinguished Shakespearean players who have not appeared upon the stage of the Memorial Theatre.
In 1926, the old theatre was destroyed by fire, but six years later, thanks largely to the generosity of "bardolaters" in the United States, "it was possible for the then Prince of Wales to open a magnificent new theatre, which had cost about £160,- 00 to build.
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