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Twenty-four Hours--Days that have made History: No. 2: January 26th, 1885: The Last Day of General Gordon ..

... playhouses, the Hay- market, Mr. Squire Ban croft is resting after the polite labours' of Diplo macy and at the other, in Drury Lane, the watch man is wandering through the scenery of the Dick Whittington pantomime. And at Osborne, in the Royal residence ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1957 | Page: 41 | Tags: Illustrations 

MISS WINNIE MELVILLE'S WONDERFUL PARTY

... wonderful party to the Covent Garden Opera Stars to see the last performance of her husband in The Song of the Drum, at Drury Lane. The celebrities included Herr Lauritz Melchior, the greatest living Wagnerian tenor, and his wife, Herr Friedrich Schorr ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

HUMOUR, SONG, AND GLOOM: Lean Harvest, at the St, Martin's

... gentleman is a die-hard aristo crat to his finger tips, which are all about a foot long SKETCHES OF THE LAND OF SMILES AT DRURY LANE BY H. II. HARRIS of overwork. Moral Money does not necessarily bring happiness. As a contrast, we see the novelist, his ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1127 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE PASSING SHOWS: Marry at Leisure, at the Haymarket, and The Land of Smiles at Drury Lane; Marry at Leisure

... TTHE PASSING SHOWS Marry at Leisure, at the Haymar\et, and The Land of Smiles at Drury Lane A Marry at Leisure. THERE is something superbly static about that country house lounge, which, as an opening gambit, writers of drawing-room comedy are seldom ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... HERR RICHARD TAUBER-- A RE-INCARNATION OF CARUSO Even before Herr Richard Tauber's wonderful voice was heard at Drury Lane singing Franz Lehar's music in The Land of Smiles, the sage musical critics on the Continent had pronounced it to be the first ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE THEATRE OF TO-DAY: IV.--THE CHEATERS

... Sir Henry Irving had a slightly different phrase, Your loyal and obedient servant. There was a time when the actors of Drury Lane were called His Majesty's servants, to avoid their being classed as rogues and vaga bonds. Eventually, they became the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1509 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

A TRIP to PARIS

... innocent viola expressed in a single short breath a dozen different emotions. It would have done credit to the villain of a Drury Lane melodrama. At the moment, certainly, it was most appropriate. For there on the front page was all about the big London jewel ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3812 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Captious Critic

... of produc ing, though the fickleness of the public taste had already prevented their sleeping as to the plays themselves. Drury Lane dramas died, the manage ment presumably thinking that the wider range of the films outstripped what it was possible to do ...