RENOWN THEATRE
TO-DAY AND TO-MOPvROW The opening of the picture is in the year 1942 in Grosvenor Square and reveals the magnificent home of' the Rohan family with its windows sliattered* and roughly boarded up/ Removal men are bringing out furniture and pictures. Inside : the spacious hall an auction sale is being held and a young airman from Jamaica is bidding for the 1 trinket box to take back to his mother. He meets there a beautiful girl in WREN uniform, Clarissa Richmond (played by Phyllis Calvert) and tells her that !his mother's ancestor was. in love i in the early nineteenth century with the Marchioness of Rohan. form.erly Clarissa Richmond. An attendant reveals to young Rokeby that the Marchioness was an ancestor of Clariss_a/s and the two become pally. The soft conversation is pierced by the auctioneer's voice. "And now lot 273. Hoppner's noted portrait of the eighth Marquis of Rohan, known as the 'Man in Grey.' ''
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1946, Page 3
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158RENOWN THEATRE Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1946, Page 3
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