... A 3 OLD crsTor The ceremony yesterday at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, of inspecting the ingredients and mixing the Betideley cake is on. of the most interesting living traditions which the theatre to-day has inherited. ft has an interesting origin. ...

... LONDON THEATRE DISPUTE. DRURY LANE SHOW WILT. 00 ON Eleven managers representing t wenty London theatres are now ranged with the Drury Lane Theatre management in opposition to Equity's insistence on the closed shop clause in contracts. This insistence ...

... MB. JAMES GLOYER Mr. James Mackey Glover, for. many year® musical director at Drury Lane, died yesterday Hastings. He was born at County Dublin, 1861, and as youth worked as property man at the Theatre Koyat,'Dublin. Following a period of study in went ...

... the youngest members of the Episcopal Bench 1 Drury Lane Prompt Books The Gabrielle Enthoven collection in Victoria and Albert Muaeom has been recc- i enriched the gift Mre. of vaiu able series of Drury lane prompt boohs. x»‘ acquisition, 1 hear, consists ...

... CHORUS GIRLS MUST SWIM, THEATRE-DIVING SPECTACLE. The chorus girls at Drury Lane this Christmas will have to swim as well as dance and sing. In one of the magnificent scenes in the Cinderella pantomime there is to be a huge pool in which the girls will ...

... upon the management of Drury Lane, in which so many fortunes had been lost, but which, under his direction, had an almost uninterrupted career ot success.” Mr, Wilson devotes an entire chapter to Augustus Harris and Drury Lane, and it is theatrical history ...

... who terminated his position as' managing director in January last, has resigned the o ffi ce of chairman and director of Drury Lane. Mr. Sidney Smith, who has been associated with the company since 1889 and a director for the last twenty-fire years, has ...

... GRDE- AN ULSTER GHOST TALE. DRURY LANE The Cooneen Ghost, a dramatic reconstruction of the Haunting of a little Farmhouse in County Fermanagh, will be broadcast to-night at 8 o'clock. The material has been supplied by Cahir Healy and dramatised by N ...

... Mr. A. P. Collins. Mr. Arthur Pelham Collins, producer of plays and pantomimes at Drury Lane, Loudon. for over forty years, has passed away at his home at Weybridge, Surrey, aged 68. retired from theatrical work in 1924 owing ill-health. Joining the staff ...

... Collins, wh. manager of Drury Lane Theatre for 27 used to say that the greatest comedians 1 ever seen were Mr. Arthur Roberts, (• Barrett, Dan Leno, George Graves, and ( Huntley. For more than 40 years Mr. ( was associated with Drury Lane, and a new direction ...

... AT REHEARSAL Talk With Artists at Drury The King and Queen visited the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, . yesterday, and met members of the | N.A.A.F.I. party, who were giving a rehearsal before leaving for France this week-end to entertain the troops ...

... GILBEYS INVALID PORT BOTTLE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, t-ta Sir Alfred Butt Re*ign» Chtinnen»h.f and Directorship. It was officiallj stated la«t night that Alfred Butt, who leruiiaated bia m«n.i,in« dire.tor last January. ha>* ~ the offit-e ol chairman ...