... tried and true Emmpees going, the amusement they supply to the country is cheap at the price. Probably one run of a Drury-lane drama would cost England more than the tried_ and true Emmpees cost this country in a year. A half a million people ...

... TILL LEAL Eit. Du'~1:~: DEAR lion, — I ant having a rotten time, - as the old geezer said in the Drury Lane panto. The b:omning mourning fairly put the lid on any sports we might have had in these parts. Everyone going around duds as black as your neck ...

... the same night, a two-fold triumph such as sometimes fell to the lot of Sheridan. the triumph of x great first night at Drury Lane theatre. and of an epoch. making speech in the English House of Commons. we may judge an orator from his immediate effect ...

... Nora as the * heroine ” is” conclusive evidence that he is all at sea. If a person can only think of a play in terms of Drury Lane melodrama it is, of course, useless to expect him to understand a play like ““The Shadow of the Glen.” I +f - am no lover ...

... melodies are contributed by Nat Shilkret and the Salon group, orchestra and male voices. From the present musical play at Drury Lane, “ The New Moon,” De Groot and his. orchestra cull “ One Kiss and ““ Softly As In a Morning Sunrise,”” two of the leading ...

... SAVOY CINEMA COMMENCING FRIDAY, 3rd JULY Continuous 2to 11 LAWRENCE TIBBETT }gesove” oSt el o “NEW MOON” The Drury Lane production is eclipsed by this new wonder picture BOOK NOW FOR 8,30 PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY Two Houses, 3 pm. &830 ...

... ROUND THE THEATRES « CAVALCADE AT DrURY LANE. When in London recently the only play that really interested me deeply-;was “ Cavalcade,” Noel (oward's latest play. It is the sensation of the season in London, and it is 9onsidered an achievement to have ...

... centuries perfected in England by Sir Herbert Tree, with the assistance of such painters as Joseph Harker and the school of the Drury Lane Pantomime. In this type of work a forest was represented by an enormous back cloth of trees painted according to the laws ...

... tumbled over itself in welcoming a double season of foreign Ballet in Covent Garden with the Philharmonic Orchestra and in Drury Lane with the London Symphony Orchestra. The former staged the Russian Ballets under Fokine with a dozen stars and a Corps de ...

... stage, but the people want it, and so it has come to stay. More than two hundred years ago, Skakespearc had to be dropped at Drury Lane in favour of pantomime because the people of London asked for it in no uncertain voice. We can imagine the hearthurnings ...

... and hear on 27th Nov.. 1943, in the Theatre Royal It is of interest to note that while the first production took place in Drury Lane, London, in 1843, the first Trish performance did not take place. until the following June in the old Theatre Royal. Its ...

... is the stuff of life’’ would nicely fit. For us Irish, however, a line from Samuel Johnson’s prologue (on the opening of Drury Lane theatre) would be more pat, “ And panting Time toil’d after him in vain.”” The manipulation causes this island much bre ...