The Blue Lamp and then to White City Stadium. Most of the chase is a logical following of Riley's car apart from when the car goes from Hythe Road NW10 into Sterne Street – Hythe Road in 1949 was a dead end. "The Blue Lamp" premiered on 20 January 1950 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and the reviewer for "The Times" found the depiction of the police work very plausible and realistic, and praised the performances of Dirk Bogarde and Peggy Evans, but found Jack Warner's and Jimmy Hanley's two policemen portrayed in a too traditional way: ""There is an indefinable
Chris and the Wonderful Lamp Chris and the Wonderful Lamp Chris and the Wonderful Lamp is an operetta in four acts by John Philip Sousa with libretto and song lyrics by Glen MacDonough (best remembered as the librettist for Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland"). Of the nine operettas that Sousa wrote between 1885 and 1909, "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" is number 7, chronologically. It was composed in 1899 and was based on a popular book of the same name by Albert Stearns, and retells the story of a young man from Connecticut who buys Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to