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Handed in at GHX New York. - Has dispatched 'Mother night and sovereign Zeus' [music for the production of Trevelyan's translation of Aeschylus's "Oresteia" by the Cambridge Festival Theatre]: 'ought never to have boasted [he] could tackle this quickly'. Pencil note on back seems to be Trevelyan's draft reply: all music sent is being used, Gordon Jacob is scoring and completing it.

Press cuttings, most sent to Trevelyan by Durrant's Press Cuttings, from: "Granta" (two articles); the "Morning Post" (four articles); the "Liverpool Post and Mercury"; the "Evening Standard"; the "Evening News"; the "Eastern Daily Press"; the "Daily Mail"; the "Westminster Gazette" (two articles); the "Daily News"; the "Cambridge Daily News"; the "Times" (two articles); the "Daily Express"; the "Daily Telegraph" (two articles); the "East Anglian Daily Times"; the "Yorkshire Post"; the "Stage"; the "Isis"; the "Oxford Magazine"; the "Manchester Guardian"; the "Bulletin and Scots Pictorial"; the "Cambridge Review" (note by J. T. S. [J. T. Sheppard) as well as a review by R. P. W.-I. [Winnington-Ingram]; the "Newcastle Daily Journal & North Star"; the "Sheffield Daily Telegraph"; the "Referee"; the "Sunday Herald" and the "Observer". Reviews variously mention Terence Gray (theatre owner and artistic director), Herbert Prentice (director), C. Harold Ridge (lighting), Donald Tovey and Gordon Jacob (music), Ninette de Valois (choreography), Hedley Briggs, Maurice Evans, Miriam Lewes, Doria Paston, Marion Prentice and Torin Thatcher (actors)