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At Covent Garden

... At Covent Garden The breathless excitement with which a young girl accepted invitation to the opera last night reminded me of pre-war days, when even VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ON TRIAL MRS. LAURENCE CADBURY AT MEDICAL MISSION SALE Mrs. Laurence Cadbury ...

Published: Friday 05 May 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 279 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

COVENT GARDEN

... COVENT GARDEN Six R.A.F. squadrons of bombers will fly past and a salute will be fired by the shore batteries as the President of the French Republic, accompanied by Mme. Lebrun, arrives at Dover on board the Cote d’Azur on Tuesday, Details of the ceremonial ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

COVENT GARDEN

... COVENT GARDEN M. and Mine. Lebrun fulfilled many engagements in London yesterday and, wherever they went, found crowds awaiting them to continue the demonstrations of cordiality so marked on the first day of their three-day State visit. Rain had just ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 212 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

COVENT GARDEN

... COVENT GARDEN TWO ACTS OF “TRISTAN AND ISOLDE’’ The official opening of the Triennial conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World will be broadcast from the Central Hall, Westminster, at 2.55 p.m. in the National. The commentaries on the County ...

Published: Tuesday 30 May 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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In Covent Garden

... Covent Garden Trees and grass seem an integral part of London squares; but many of them, including Covent Garden in its fashionable days, had in the centre only a gravelled space enclosed by wooden railings. About the time when the first market-stalls ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

“PARSIFAL’* AT COVENT GARDEN

... “PARSIFAL’* AT COVENT GARDEN. The most interesting event of the musical year (will, all likelihood, be the first performance otf “Parsifal” in England, at Covent Garden, on February 2. New scenery is being painted by Mr. Joseph Harkcr, and the costumes ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1914
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Abuses in Covent Garden

... Abuses in Covent Garden On his visit to Covent Garden a few days ago the Food Minister was shocked by the amount of good food he saw rotting for lack of buyers. This is no new scandal; but in days of stringency it is doubly serious. For a long time many ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Covent Garden Properties

... Covent Garden Properties Covent Garden Properties Company’s report shows net profit for the year ended June 30 of £140,473 (against £152,482). The amount brought forward was £82,540. The directors recommend a final dividend on ordinary shares of 3%, making ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Crooning at Covent Garden

... Crooning at Covent Garden As a gesture towards the furtherance of British-American friendship, Irving Berlin wrote his song My British Buddy and dedicated the profits to the British Services Charities Committee, of which Lady Louis Mountbatten is the ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COVENT GARDEN OPERA

... COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHANCE OF WINTER SEASON In the Chancery Division yesterday an agreed order was made in two actions concerning the future of the Opera House, Covent Garden. When the matter was before the Court in May. it was stated that Boosey and ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COVENT GARDEN OPERA SEASON

... COVENT GARDEN OPERA SEASON OPENING OF WAGNER’S “RING” CYCLE SIR THOMAS BEECHAM SPEEDS UP RHLNEGOLD LLOYD’S SHIPPING NEWS ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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