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FORMER MUSICAL DIRECTOR AT DRURY LANE

... FORMER MUSICAL DIRECTOR AT DRURY LANE Mr. James Mackey (“,,,Jimmy ”) Glover, formerly musical director at Drury-lanc 'ilioatre and one of the best-known figures in tho theatre world, died early to-day at his fiat at Albany Hotel, Hastings, where he had ...

Published: Tuesday 08 September 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ASK ME ANOTHER. 1. When was Drury Lane Theatre first opened? 2. How were the actors designated at that period?

... ASK ME ANOTHER. 1. When was Drury Lane Theatre first opened? 2. How were the actors designated at that period? 3. What is the capital of Madeira? 4. To whom does sladeira belong? 6. Where was Henry Kingsley, the novelist, buried? 6. What King ia honoured ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

r FROM ALL QUARTERS

... FROM ALL QUARTERS. TO-DAY’S ANNIVERSARIES.—PiIIory last used, 1830. Sir Augustus Harris (lessee of Drury Lane Theatre) died, 1896. Coronation of King George and Queen Mary, 1911. Austrian retreat across the Piave, 1918. Field-Marshal Sir H. H. Wilson ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 39 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Uchtrd d Taunton Dona i and

... C 82 75 (s/-) For 5a Other mv. Jmm Lit. Authorised Agents i J. STAVELEY & SON, 15, Lune Street, Preston. Telephone 4990. DRURY LANE MEMORIES By Regal Cinema Orchestra 8 Takes the listener through Desert I Song; New Moon; Show Boot) fJ Rose Marie; and Three ...

Published: Thursday 04 June 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... Piccadilly, and Algiers, may allow the male imagination to play with visions of a sunset over Nineveh or a transformation scene Drury Lane. But when viewed on the workaday reality of million peripatetic shins, all this rainbow of language reduces itself to string ...

Published: Tuesday 03 February 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR. GEORGE GROSSMITH’S NEW APPOINTMENT

... GEORGE GROSSMITH’S NEW APPOINTMENT. Mr. George Grossmith was yesterday appointed managing director of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Ltd., in succession to Sir Alfred Butt, M.P. Mr. George Grossmith, who 56 years age, first appeared the stage in 1892, ...

Published: Tuesday 05 May 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TALES OF A WIG-MAKER

... Hastings, * whither a party of us had gone to see how this seaside resort is keeping abreast of the times. Mr. Jimmy Glover, of Drury Lane fame, was another member of the party in the musicroom the enlarged and modernised Queen’s Hotel, where alternately the ...

Published: Tuesday 18 August 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEARLY 50 LONDON THEATRES

... lorty-eight. Very few of London’s theatres, 1 notice, are really old. In fact, there are only four older than the St. James’s —Drury Lane, which was founded in 1663, Covcnt Garden (1732), Haymarket (1720), and tho Lyceum (1809). And only twelve are more than ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dorothy Matthews in a restful mood. She will be seen and heard in the film, “A Handful of Clouds, an all ..

... and the custom? and modes of life of the people of those countries are intimately revealed. .idwyi ,aye. adaptation of the Drury Lane success, has Lawrence Tibbett, Grace Moore, and Adolphe Menjou In the leading roles. of the week received cheque for so ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 450 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DESIRE TO ATONE

... —myself still kicking and between you and your desire. It is pretty situationalmost sheer melodrama in the best manner of Old Drury Lane. The mirthless laughter sounded again, then he added: You there . . . and Olive and myself together still ” “No! by Christopher ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LANCASHIRE DAILY POST. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1931. COMMONS GOOD START. REAL SACRIFICES IN HIGH

... without an anaesthetic iust to show him what pain is. * A FAMOUS CHARACTER.” TIMMY GLOVER,” formerly musical con- ductor at Drury Lane, whose death was recorded yesterday, was not a great musician, and as a conductor he could bo very eccentric, but ho possessed ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Mayoress of Preston, Mrs. Atherton, presenting iho Wade Cup to tho winner, Clarkson, at Preston. Photo: ..

... PROGRAMMES. FAMOUS GERMAN TENOR AND MR. EDGAR WALLACE. Richard Tauber, the famous German tenor from “The Land of Smiles at Drury Lane, makes his English broadcasting debut to-night, when he will give a recital in the National programme at 9 50. Mr. Edgar ...

Published: Monday 20 July 1931
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 6 | Tags: none