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Criticisms in Cameo: THE DESERT SONG, AT DRURY LANE; VERDICT AND SENTENCE; II. THE CONSTANT WIFE, AT THE STRAND

... Criticisms in Cameo. V 2° I. 44 THE DESERT SONG, AT DRURY LANE. VERDICT AND SENTENCE. Sutnma cum laude Two years, with the option of extension. HONOURS. First: To the bountiful enterprise of Sir Alfred Butt and his co-directors. Next: To the composer ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1296 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: THE TEMPTRESS

... melodrama that was vastly more amusing in its stage form it is based on the Drury Lane success of the same name than it is on the screen. This is surprising enough, since a Drury Lane drama does not aspire to those high qualities of dialogue and thought that ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 801 | Page: 87 | Tags: Review 

CABARET

... George Metaxa, are at the Kit Cat, where a special gala is being ariven to-night in honour of The Desert Song company at Drury Lane. Queenie Leonard has joined the 'Tricity cabaret, the rest of the acts remaining the same as during the last few weeks. ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1927
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1137 | Page: 19 | Tags: review 

DRAMA

... (Daly's). Little drops of dream-stuff, Barric-like and quaint. Make a normal jazz shoxv Seem as if it ain't. The Desert Sotig (Drury Lane). A musical non-comedy based on Sheik and Foreign Legion stuff with Edith Day and Harry Welchman. The Beloved Vagabond ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1450 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... Lady Luck (Carlton). Leslie Henson, Laddie Cliff, and Phyllis Monkman in a musical comedy of Mormonism. The Desert Song (Drury Lane). The Sheikh stuff for Sir Alfred Butt to give the troops. Peggy Ann (Daly's). A melodious muddle in the mind of a pure ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1527 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... Maurice Chevalier, Mr. Tex McLeod and Mr. Anton Dolin, at any rate. Sir Alfred Butt The managing director and chairman of Drury Lane Theatre, of the Victoria Palace, and the Glasgow Alhambra. He is also head of the syndicate leasing the Globe and Queen's ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... deceptions, broad jokes, comic business, hearty fizziness, old Uncle Tom Wallsey and all. Musical Comedies The Desert Song (Drury Lane). The maiden's prayer for a masterful sheikh who m the end turns out to be an eligible white man. The Vagabond King I ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1578 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA: The Menkenisings of Miss Menken: The Beloved Vagabond from the Public School: The Merry Group of Still ..

... sweet fiance, a naughty, non-fiance, and the usual hilarious mix-up of Aldwych farce. Song and Dance The Desert Song (Drury Lane). The answer to the maiden's prayer for a sheikh to abduct her into the desert, treat her rough, and then turn out to be ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... Courtneidge Jack Hulbert, and Changeless June in the happiest revue seen 111 London for a eas three years. The Desert Song (Drury Lane). -Sir Atfrcd Butt deplores that he cannot British Empire musical comedy. w y worry, when he still has the shell' give them ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1833 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review