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Standing By. . .: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... smelling) real foxhounds and horses on the stage at Drury Lane. Arnold Bennett thought this kind of thing was pretty easy, and put a sinking yacht, among other excitements, into London Life, also at Drury Lane. The piece flopped. If you ever want to gauge the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2455 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

MISS MARY ELLIS

... and in it Miss Mary Ellis plays the part of the famous opera singer, in which she won such fame in the stage production at Drury Lane. The play was first put on in May, 1935. The gala film premiere at the Regal is in aid of the National Union of Journalists' ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOME CROWNED HEADS OF THEATRELAND

... but that's beside the point) but he writes, composes and produces as well. And anyway, he seems to have dug himself in at Drury Lane, which is the Royal Palace of Theatreland. BERNARD. KING OF THE PLA YWRIGHTS The greatest dramatist since Shakespeare Perhaps ...

THE THEATRE IN CORONATION YEAR

... and Miss Ger trude Lawrence have also been away on a Manhatten conquest, but Mr. Novello has stayed at home to triumph at Drury Lane with the spectacular Careless Rapture. All foreign visitors will want to see this great house, whose name is carved so ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1100 | Page: 71 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... have laughed at it for centuries. It 's only just over a hundred years since The London Cuckolds ceased to be performed at Drury Lane every Lord Mayor's day, and since Lamb wrote that pleasant essay on Cuckoldry which his refined modern fans are so anxious ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2601 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

More Celebrities in Cameo: No. 31 Leontine Sagan

... Murder in Mayfair, Careless Rapture, and Balalaika. At the moment she is working on Crest of the Wave, Ivor Novello's new Drury Lane production. Leontine Sagan never has a failure largely because she takes the whole cast individually, even the supers. She ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 519 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Desperate Doings In Eighteen Scenes

... played by Mr. Ivan Samson, who was villainous half-brother to Mr. Ivor Novello in the most recent of the drama-spectacles at Drury Lane. In any case, this gargantuan show at the Princes Theatre, devised and invented by Ian Hay and Firth Shepard, is not specially ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1107 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

GORE--BLIMEY!: Stanley Parker Dips His Brush in the Blood-Tub and Impales the Personnel on His Pen

... dastardly deeds upon these historic boards, and one looks to Mr. de Marney to do for the Lyceum what Mr. Novello is doing for Drury Lane. One hopes not in vain. tj Below I feel that the authors themselves were not quite sure whether to make it a Sj psychological ...

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: AN ODD LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE; IVOR NOVELLO, DOROTHY DICKSON

... IN the first place, Ivor Novello has again rung the bell with a resonant clang. Time rolls on, and he continues to fill Drury Lane with a consistency that no other author, actor or manager has been able to achieve. Once a year he delivers the formula ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1170 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

That Old-Fashioned Christmas

... one could come into the theatre at hall-time for half the price. Which was easier on the dramatic diges tion and cheaper. Drury Lane, Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden were the principal purveyors of pantomime. The little boy depicted in the first of the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4342 | Page: 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 399 | Page: 135 | Tags: Illustrations 

This Year's Galaxy of Pantomimes

... time finding it out, for it must be at least twenty years ago that he found no difficulty in being the life and soul of Drury Lane pantomimes. Principal boys should be handsome and dashing and Miss Madge Elliott well comes up to the convention. What has ...