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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 

Other

... Your Gun (Coliseum). Dolores Gray and Bill Johnson in another tough and melodious back woods comedy from America. Oklahoma (Drury Lane). This American musical play has everything. It is tuneful, decorative. Moves with typical Transatlantic speed and smooth ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 558 | Page: 6 | Tags: Cartoons  Other 

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 

Other

... who shine so brightly. They are Dolores Gray, who finds that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, and dashing Bill Johnson. DRURY LANE Oklahoma This outstand ing U.S. success is tuneful, decorative and moves with transatlantic speed and smoothness. DUKE OF ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 907 | Page: 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Other 

Anthony Cookman on--Pantomime

... eloquent preferences. Some were assured that the last distillation of the basic spirit of pantomime was to be caught only at Drury Lane; others discovered superior charm in the characteristic grandeur of Covent Garden; still more plumped for the rollicking ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 6, 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Photographs 

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

... heard of the celebrated eighteenth-century actor and play wright, Charles Macklin Macklin gave his farewell performance at Drury Lane at the age of ninety- nine, wrote a five-act comedy at 101, and died at 107 as recorded on his memorial tablet in St. Paul's ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1482 | Page: 14, 16 | Tags: Cartoons  Illustrations 

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: 14, 15 | Tags: Cartoons