The event is called Midsummer in Oxford, organised by the British American Drama Academy and has brought the Americans over at £800 a time for an intensive month-long training. The course has its own showpiece production of a high prestige revival of J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World by Lindsay Anderson with Frank Grimes in the title role and Nicola McAuliffe as Widow Quinn. It opens amid fanfares at the Oxford Playhouse on Monday, goes to Edinburgh Festival then to Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. August 08, 1941. (Photo by London Express News And Feature Services).