Queen Mary Makes Rare Evening Visit To Theatre -- Queen Mary, within two months of her 83rd birthday and making one of her now rare evening visits to the theatre, is received by Nancy Price as she arrives to attend Eden Phillpotts 'The Orange Orchard' at the New Lindsey Theatre Club. London, this evening (Tuesday). When Charles Wreford, who instructed the company in Davon dialect, later told the Queen he was 78, she said: 'That's nothing. I'm 83.' April 18, 1950. (Photo by Reuterphoto).