"Wartime Opera- Music and Entertainment at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, England, UK, 1943" The house lights dim, and a hush descends over the audience, in preparation for curtain up at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London. Peter Gellhorn prepares to conduct the overture to 'La Traviata'. The orchestra pit at the New Theatre is not large enough to accommodate the entire ensemble, so the drums are housed in a box on one side of the stage (clearly visible in centre of the photograph) and the harp is played from the box on the opposite side of the theatre (not pictured).