... already seen The Private Secretary many years ago, she would be obliged if he would kindly exchange it for the pantomime at Drury Lane on Boxing Night A film critic says that Americans are still the supreme providers of motion-picture entertainment. Well ...

... talking of the one and only Dan Leno. The other day some one was recalling how Dan had to impersonate a woodland bat in a Drury Lane pantomime, and go to sleep for a trifle of twenty years or thereabouts. When he awoke he used to raise shouts of laughter ...

... come to her in film work, the most important straight engagement she ever had being that of the heroine of the pantomime at Drury Lane last Christmas, in which Lilian Davies was the principal boy. She has lived most of her life in Australia, although she ...

... its gracious English, high spirits and daring dialogue. And again, I seemed to be watching Nell Gwynn, queening it at Old Drury Lane, though the King was among the players on this occasion. We have to thank James B. tagan, who has written one ot the best ...

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... Qur Gft'ous Qrtc on THE LAND OF SMILES. (Drury Lane Theatre THE relative failure (judging from managerial notices) of The Land of Smiles, to fully capture the London public gives rise to various reflections. From time to time at tempts are made to ...

... comparison with these wild and amazing South American assassins at the Lyceum the fanciful Chinamen of the Land of Smiles at Drury Lane had quite a homely, domestic air. Not only does everyone live dangerously in Nina Rosa for full three hours, but they ...

... 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 ...

... Oft'0^ on CAVALCADE (Drury Lane Theatre). THERE is scarcely a writer who re ports new plays for the news papers but has gathered together his most gorgeous and im pressive adjectives to do justice to Caval cade, at Drury Lane Theatre, even to indulging ...

... is no more effective than the patter of less witty men would be in a similar environment. the late Arnold Bennett writing Drury Lane drama was a case in point. When the attention is fastened on outside T? action, whether of the knockabout tvpe or of the ...

... say apparently the gentleman in question has been to see Cavalcade too, for one article among many others left behind at Drury Lane Theatre was a complete sausage-machine. And a lady left behind a growing plant. Only she remem bered about it, because next ...

... said, Really, I always throw 'em back if they aren't over six. hundred. THIS is a famous story. Sheridan, proprietor of Drury Lane, sipping port in the Bedford Tavern close by his burning theatre, replied to a comment on his cool ness, Surely a man has ...