Regent Theatre
The story of "Oliver Twist," opening tonight at the Regent Theatre, hegins in a squalid parish Wnrkhquse-Qn a wild winter's. night in- England: in- the early part of the ■ apt qentuRy.' An unknown gir ('josephine Stuart). lies- dying aftoi giving birth. to- a. sqn, Shg tries to speak, but has s no- strength left and dies without saying who* she is or wh,era- ehe- has. come- f rom> Thera is. oni.y one- clue to her Identi.ty — a, gold; lo.ck.et con.taining a miniature nortrait. As soon as the doctor.. has, left the room, the midwifej Mrs. Thiiigummy (Deirdre Doyle) snatches it from- the dead girl's neck. To her it represents a few pence.from the pawnbrokeR.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1949, Page 4
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116Regent Theatre Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1949, Page 4
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