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Drury Lane Drama

... Drury Lane Drama. Drury Lane went back to pre-war melodrama to-night, when Good Luck,” the joint work of Seymour Hicks and lan Hay, was put upon the stage. Nothing like this has been seen since the spacious days when Sir Augustus Harris and his confederates ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Thrills for Drury Lane

... Thrills for Drury Lane. Tho great Drury Lane drama, Good Luck,” is to be produced Thursday, and will, I learn, provide a series of melodramatic thrills of the kind with which Sir Augustus Harris used to delight his audiences. One of the scenes will represent ...

Published: Tuesday 25 September 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

“ Angelo ” at Drury Lane

... Angelo at Drury Lane. Angelo,” the new production at Drury Lane Theatre, is an artistic enterprise with many novel devices used for its staging, setting, and lighting. The performance, consisting of a prologue and three acts, contains no fewer than forty-five ...

Published: Thursday 29 March 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DRURY LANE PACKED

... DRURY LANE PACKED WITH WOMEN. Mr. Bonar Law's audience consisted more than 2,260 women, tho theatre being filled its utmost capactt*. This, however, did not any means represent the demand for ticket*; matter fact, more than 8,000 applications for seats ...

The Fate of Drury Lane

... The Fate of Drury Lane. It is too early say whether popular sympathy lies with Mr. Basil Dean or Sir Alfred Butt in the controversy which has led to Mr. Dean’s sensational resignation from the managingdfrectorship of Drury Lane Theatre today. The practical ...

Published: Thursday 29 January 1925
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE NEW DRURY LANE

... THE NEW DRURY LANE. Fl.ppant people declare that the pillars in Lont of Drury Lane look like giant sticks of rhubarb. Personally, says a London correspondent, I should call tbem a deep petunia colour, though they are equally striking in appearance by ...

DRURY LANE POLIC^-

... DRURY LANE POLIC^- Sir Alfred Butt, Driiry Lane to musical t takes the opportunity general meeting of the to ease himself of any science by vigorously policy, on the ground i financial success. At to-day’s meeting was still receiving people who deplored ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1927
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AGAINST DRURY LANE

... AGAINST DRURY LANE. New York, Saturday. The legal advisers Mr. Arthur Hammerstein, the American theatrical producer, announco that action lias been entered against the Drury Lane Theatre and Sir Alfred Butt, who is at present in America, to recover the ...

The Future ef Drury Lane

... The Future ef Drury Lane. The fate of Drury Lane Theatre seems to be sealed—for the pprosens at least—- and Mr. Basil Dean's opes that it might become a home t tor sis kespeare and the classics are blown to the four wind. The success ot ** Rose Marie ...

Published: Tuesday 20 October 1925
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DRURY LANE SUCCESS

... A DRURY LANE SUCCESS But Drury Lane can be proud Show Boat,” which is, in fact» essentially incongruous thing, musical play with a coherent ana nected plot, but its incongruity e prevent it from being a very tine e tainment. Some us, indeed, , preferred ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DRURY LANE THEATRE SOLD

... DRURY LANE THEATRE SOLD. Drury Lane Theatre has, says Hie Times, been privately sold Mtwn. Edwin Fo*. Burnett, and who have also disposed the Waldorf Hotel. Drury House, and other interests, including promises in Bow Street, and Catherine Street. the ...

New Experiment at Drury Lane

... New Experiment Drury Lane. Mr. Louis Parker’s adaptation Johannes Krcisler,” which produced at Drury Lane, will h© scenically the most remarkable thing yet attempted this theatre, for the play is in forty scenes, and all manner of new devices setting ...