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ROUND THE THEATRES

... So the general impression left was of one of pity for so much cleverness wasted through an effort to be much too clever. drury lane Cinderella is very good this year. So many of the old friends are round her, and she herself is such an old friend that ...

A LITERARY LETTER: A Fine Restoration Comedy

... tells us that two scenes from the play were performed at Drury Lane in 1703, and that there was a performance of the whole play at the Haymarket in 1707. The play con tinued to be acted at Drury Lane at long intervals in 1720 and in 1746 and in 1752, apparently ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1979 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A New Hichens Novel

... among the crowds who go to see the play at Drury Lane. Naturally, be cause they turn on the eternal relation ship of man and woman, on the text Love and Religion, both lit with emo tion. What the Drury Lane audiences. certainly the women, mostly ask ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1605 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A New Hichens Novel

... among the crowds who go to see the play at Drury Lane. Naturally, be cause they turn on the eternal relation ship of man and woman, on the text Love and Religion, both lit with emo tion. What the Drury Lane audiences. certainly the women, mostly ask ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1605 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Psychology of Henry Irving

... Irving has not been spoken. There were moments when he rose to great heights of dramatic art. His Becket as I saw it at Drury Lane in the last year of his life seemed to me as good as anything I have ever seen from any British player. His Shylock, his ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1970 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE BABES IN THE WOOD AT THE NEW OXFORD THEATRE

... London where everything costs more we have panto- mimes at the Hippodrome and the Oxford to replace the one missing from Drury Lane so that the score this year is one up. It is amusing now to remember the rrush with which the Drurv Lane pantomime was always ...

THE STAGE LIFE OF MRS. STIRLING

... things she still had to go through the mill, playing in burlesque and comedy at the New Strand Theatre, me St. dames s, Drury Lane, the Olympic, and tlie riaymarket-- m iact, in all the popular productions of the day. it was at me Hayniarket that she ...

A LITERARY LETTER: The Duke of Buckingham's Works

... and coarseness, put life into the whole, and the play was well worth presenting. Why Garrick, when he acted as Don John at Drury Lane, improved away Buckingham's vivacity puzzles me. Dr. Johnson called a spade a spade, and made short work of Lady Di's vagaries ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1985 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

LONDON NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS

... called him when I was young, and the compliment stuck to him or ever after. It must be nearly forty years since I went to Drury Lane Theatre to see Mr. Barnes as Macbeth, though I really beg to assure you that I was frightfully young at the time, o Well ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1334 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Decameron Nights

... from the popular taste is illus trated in the case of Decameron Nights, which all the world is flocking to see at the new Drury Lane Theatre. Not all of us with manhood throw away childish things. Most of us, indeed, if we live to be ninety, retain the ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1948 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review