abstract:Command Performance is a 1937 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Arthur Tracy, Lilli Palmer and Mark Daly.http://ftvdb.
There was a commandperformance (the lecture which is the obligation of every prize-winner) that was so popular that it had, in at least one case, people queuing to get past the bouncers at the door because the theatre was full.
One Royal Navy captain after another would champion his new command's inaugural performance at sea trials, or praise the yard to the hilt when a vessel returned to the port of its birth.