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THE PASSING OF TRADITION

... the foyer-- thai it is the only London theatre where Charley s Aunt has failed! Covent Garden Market strongly ob jected to Drury Lane Theatre beine painted outside. When they put reH over all the pillars the porters called it Rhubarb Row. They did not mind ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 6 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE LLANRHYLL MYSTERY

... bus. Dan Leno, now 1 Do you mean to say you can sit through a pantomime at Drury Lane without laugh ing at Dan Leno I am not in the habit ot going to pantomimes at Drury Lane. Well, you couldn't help laughing if you were.. Have you ever read Barry ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3736 | Page: 44 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

MR. GORGONZOLA HAS THE TIME OF HIS LIFE

... rousing regalia of a king, with ostrich aigrette and linoleum shield. I tell you he is something that would stagger even Drury Lane for sumptuous barbarism. He treats her with such regal urbanity that she sagely surmises his object is bigamy. Before he ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2716 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE CURATE'S MELODRAMA

... to the horizon. On the skyscape there is the hottest thing in suns that paint and language can command. In front of this Drury Lane Phoebus there stands a comatose camel staring with ghastly composure at the rubicund stage-manager in the wings. A man is ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3079 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

RECOGNITION: BEING OUR SHORT STORY

... How-not-to-do-it. That was what it had got to. The scarecrow of the theatre, the bogey man he, Leonard Light, who had been Drury Lane's leading man for fifteen years, who had trained, exercised, taught himself hour upon hour of fencing, ballet, mime, till ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1409 | Page: 18 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative