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THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS: Theatrical Successes of the 'Eighties--A Music Hall in 1872--Pictures from the Files

... Files DAISY SHALL RUN A SCENE FROM A RUN OF LUCK AT DRURY LANE, 1 886 44 Mr. Augustus Harris has certainly scored another very decided success with the new sporting drama he has written for Drury Lane. Our scene represents one of the most thrilling incidents ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 418 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

MISS LILIAN DAVIES: IN THE THREE MUSKETEERS

... This beautiful picture of Miss Lilian Davies in the actual colours of the costume she wore in The Three Musketeers at Drury Lane, is reproduced by Mr. Bertram Park's special colour photography process. The run of The Three Musketeers unfortunately was ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

CAMBRIDGE THEATRE & OXFORD CIRCUS MUSIC HALL

... other theatre I have ever been in in this country, Paris, or Berlin. It is not very big it seats about half the number that Drury Lane, the Dominion, or the Lyceum can hold but what there is of it is good, as Mr. George Robey would have said a few years ago ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Hoard of Autograph Letters

... Sheridan is writing to his father-in-law, Thomas Linley, at Bath. In 1775 Sheridan, Linley, and Ford bought Garrick's share in Drury Lane Theatre for ^35,000, and our letter has to do with this transaction. In 1776 the theatre opened under Sheridan's management ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 315 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE PASSING SHOWS: Follow a Star, at the Winter Garden Theatre

... Timothy Bohun (pronounced Boon), heir to a disputed Baronetcy-- these ludicrous idiosyncracies belong more to Dickens than to Drury Lane. Mr. Baskcomb's portrait of the man| whose flags-of-all-nations' trick started the War deserves a frame in the 1 gallery ...

Published: Wednesday 15 October 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1347 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LONDON STAGE: Edgar Wallace Okay in most of Smoky Cell: A problem in emotion for the audience in To See ..

... days If they were not, Mr. Wallace might object that this was no fault of his. But if the play had not lapsed into old-time Drury Lane melodrama I should not have made the discovery. It was nice, of course, to see the electric chair, but the means whereby ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1600 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LONDON STAGE: Edgar Wallace Okay in most of Smoky Cell: A problem in emotion for the audience in To See ..

... days If they were not, Mr. Wallace might object that this was no fault of his. But if the play had not lapsed into old-time Drury Lane melodrama I should not have made the discovery. It was nice, of course, to see the electric chair, but the means whereby ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1600 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

TELEVISION!

... was a child, Madge Kendal, a white, played Desdemona to Ira Aldridge, a black. I have seen large-scale melodrama of the Drury Lane type, which showed us fights under the sea, and train wrecks, and escapes from balloons, and things, superseded entirely ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2059 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations 

SNOWS AND AUTRES CHOSES

... police chief who has put him away. Revolvers crack, glass flies, and machine guns-rattle- a thrill as big as any staged at Drury Lane or. the Lyceum. Nearly all the closing scene, when, of course, justice triumphs, is played in silence. It has a lot to live ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1927 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

The STAGE of the DAY

... 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 ...

THE CHILDREN OF THE THEATRE AND ADVENTURERS

... He went right on to the end, and died in harness. His silver voice still echoes in many ears. Augustus Harris, who ran Drury Lane, Oscar Hammerstein, who lost a fortune on the London Opera House, Edmund Kean, whose whole life was a passionate adventure ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2750 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations