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FASHIONS BY D. LANE: SOME PERIOD FROCKS OF TO-DAY

... DOWAGER. I ____________ [Photographs by Foul sham and Banfield Ltd.\ Period dressing has invaded pantomime, as our page of Drury Lane celebrities shows The first three photographs illustrate the varied j wardrobe of Miss Lily Long, who plays one of Cinderella's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

In the-- Drury Lane-- Desert: Passion and Piety

... In the Drury Lane Desert Passion and Piety. AS OUR ARTIST THOUGHT HE SAW THEM PEOPLE WHO COUNT IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. Specially drawn for The Sketch by James Dale. The combination of Hiohens, Arthur Collins, Madge Titheradge, Basil Gill, and Godfrey ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

BY SHADED LIGHTS

... conversation at the same time. Women, he mused, I renounce them till the appearance of The Woman Then, for all the world like a Drury Lane melodrama in collaboration with a Pansy Faces novelette, the door opened, and Billy entered. Fate had stolen a march on ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1695 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Six Stages on One Stage: A Revolution for Drury Lane

... Revolution for Drury Lane. FORTY-TWO SCENES AND TWO INTERVALS IN TWO AND A HALF HOURS: THE MECHANISM OF ANGELO A WONDER OF BLACK-OUTS AND INVISIBLE SCENE-SHIFTERS. By Courtesy of the Scientific American. See Article on Page xxii.) Drury Lane's next production ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 171 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

JOHN WALKER & SONS, LTD

... JOHN WALKER SONS, LTD JOHN WALKER SONS, LTD., Scotch Whisky Distillers, Kilmarnock, Scotland DRURY LANE THEATRE where Nell Gwynne first attracted notice as an orange-seller, and made her first stage appearance in 1665. The famous theatre was first opened ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 83 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

MARIEGOLD AGAIN: The Ladies of the Imperial Conference

... manded Mariegold. Weddings and funerals are both depressing. What about the new shows I can't say anything about the new Drury Lane melodrama; except that the clothes were wonderful and ^interesting, because they are supposed to be an intelligent antici ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2596 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Clubman: Lord Wargrave's Discovery

... of these days, the horse-shoe shaped auditorium will be altered to the wide tiers which are a feature of the modernised Drury Lane. They give a better view of the stage and increase the seating accommodation, although not every actor of eminence is in ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1082 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SECRETS OF A SHOWMAN

... us began trying to follow out these instructions. Suddenly the producer, Joseph Brooks, who later brought over Ben Hur to Drury Lane, stopped the rehearsal. I want, he called out, ladies and gentlemen not children. What 's that child doing there With a ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4496 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SECRETS OF A SHOWMAN

... Grossmith had played in London at the Criterion. Its author (one of the Lindos, brother of Richard Lindo. for so many years at Drury Lane) was in New York. I got a copy of the play from him, and read it to Mansfield, and he arranged that I should go to England ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4254 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SECRETS OF A SHOWMAN

... married Isa Bowman, one of several sisters who were famous stage children. Isa had been principal girl in the pantomime at Drury Lane in succession to Marie Lloyd, and she was at this time, or had been just previously, leading lady for Arthur Roberts, who ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5501 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations