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ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: The Battle of the Ballets

... queerly named Educational Ballets, Ltd., presents the Russian Ballet plus Fokine but sans Massine and Dani- lova and at Drury Lane (Bow Street usefully separ ates the two hunting grounds) the JBallet Russe de Monte Carlo has a season with Massine and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 990 | Page: 23 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Theatre: The Light of Heart (Apollo)

... small part, in which he gave such an admirable per formance that Charles B. Cochran decided to present him as King Lear at Drury Lane in a John Gielgud production. (Why no mention of Motley or Roger Furze Mean, I call it.) The part was, of course, a long ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 11 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Mixture As Before: CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS IN WAR-TIME

... provided with a perfect orgy of entertain ments to suit all tastes. There is, to begin with, the beauti fied Sleeping Beauty at Drury Lane, which is quite a delightful entertainment. I had the advantage of being present at the dress rehearsal of this production ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 752 | Page: 22 | Tags: Cartoons 

DANCING DAYS AND NIGHTS

... Messrs. Grossmith and Laurillard in connection with the production of Kissing Time at their new Winter Garden Theatre in Drury Lane. For this production they brought from America Miss Cissie Sewell to produce and arrange the chorus dances. Now this is ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1134 | Page: 26 | Tags: Cartoons 

Celebrities I have Wiģged: Honi Soit

... and his Wig. A nother victim of a somewhat similar accident was the late Mr. Fred Vokes, who at the time was playing at Drury Lane. In one scene he bad to appear on the stage mounted on an elephant, the animal's back being reached by means of a ladder ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1906
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1246 | Page: 14 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Letters of Eve

... war-music outside they actually did Tristan from start to finish on the very worst and noisiest night of all last week at Drury Lane. With his usual business-like forethought the one and only Sir Thomas had duly provided concrete shelter places for the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3174 | Page: 8 | Tags: Cartoons 

Standing By ...: One Thing and Another

... grinned and produced an entire manuscript play of Shakespeare's from his sleeve called Vortigern, which had one night's run at Drury Lane and received the bird. Other Shakespeare forgers of the period were Jordan, a Stratford citizen who discovered that charming ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1392 | Page: 15 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Letters of Eve

... success at the Garrick, and with Whitsun the uncrushable Sir Tommy Beecham comes into the front trench again with a season at Drury Lane, after one up in Manchester, which I'm told was a tearing success from beginning to end. J\ s well, there's the Russian ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3599 | Page: 4 | Tags: Cartoons 

WOMAN'S SPHERE

... appeared, and refused to come out of her retreat until she was assured that they had departed. The pantomime, Aladdin, at Drury Lane, too, is a feast of colour and fun the Chinese note in the costumes giving it a novel and gorgeous touch. Miss Madge Ti ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1800 | Page: 32 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Letters of Eve

... lovely Marriage of Figaro. It's worth risking even going to Heaven straight from those shiny, slidey, slithery stalls of Drury Lane Theatre to hear Mozart's charming music in that delicious opera, and see what someone describes as those irresistible, doll-like ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3346 | Page: 4 | Tags: Cartoons 

The Letters of Eve

... Duchess of Marlborough, and Lady Alastair Innes-Ker, and the Princess of Monaco, and, of course, Lady Cunard, who takes at Drury Lane rather the place Lady Ripon did at Covent Garden you know, patroness-in-chief of the operatic arts. And as well, amongst ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3420 | Page: 6 | Tags: Cartoons