"West End Stars at "gib" Give Matinees For the Navy. 7 January 1943, Gibraltar, Under the Guise of "ensa", a Galaxy of Film and Stage Stars Took Some of the Colour and Gaiety of London's West End To the Men Stationed on 'the Rock'. Beatrice Lillie, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Welch, Phyllis Stanley, Jeanne De Casalis, John Geilgud and Micheal Wilding Played To Crowded Houses at the Theatre Royal, Gibraltar, Every Night in "christmas Party". in the Afternoon They Visited Each Warship in the Harbour in Turn and Gave a Matinee For the Men of the Navy." Edith Evans playing to a naval audience during a show on board HMS NELSON.