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THRILLS of the CIRCUS--BLONDINS OF 1932

... fine careless rapture of their youth in fact the circus has now ascended the throne which in pre-War years was filled by Drury Lane Pantomime. This year, among the newcomers, are Diaz de Velasco, who uses no bridle in his equestrian feats, and Cilly Feindt ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

The FOLK Who MAKE YOU LAUGH The Great Humorists of the World--Literary, Artistic, and Theatrical--are Shown to ..

... best performance he ever gave was in 6 Cylinder Love, and before the slump in stars' salaries he was earning /400 a week at Drury Lane. Bobby Howes was telling me the other day that it takes him at least a fortnight to work up his part, and that he always ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4464 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

WEDDINGS; A PRESENTATION; A TWELFTH NIGHT CEREMONY; AND A PORTRAIT

... PARISH CHURCH OF STOKE- BY-CLARE I MR. IAN LINDSAY AND HIS BRIDE, THE HON. MAYSIE LOCH. THE ANNUAL TWELFTH NIGHT CEREMONY AT DRURY LANE MISS MARY CLARE AND MR. C. M. LOWNE CUTTING THE BADDELEY CAKE. Photographs nv L.N.A., C.N., Lknake, ani> Lafayette. Colonel ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... Getting Good Teeth into Their 12th Night Not-so-Baddeley Cake. On Twelfth Night, when, as usual, the Baddeley Cake was cut at Drury Lane, Mr. Leslie Henson and Mr. Firth Shephard held a rival affair at the Strand, in honour of the cast of It 's a Girl and of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 584 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

the passing hour

... 1 JANE GORDON'S I j ROUND AND ABOUT, t THEATRES. SHOOTING, I Etc 4 Keeping Twelfth Night at Drury Lane. Mary Clare cutting the Baddeley Cake at Drury Lane, where the ceremony has been performed regularly every Twelfth Night since 1796 in accordance ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3269 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

HAPPENINGS IN LONDON

... artists used to appear at the music-hall when it was the Standard CUTTING 1 HE BADDELEY CAKE: The annual traditional event at Drury Lane, dating back to 1796, was held on Twelfth Night. Miss Mary Clare and Mr. C. M. Lowne are here seen cutting the cake b ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 260 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

BEHIND THE SCENES AT DRURY LAN MARY CLARE'S QUICK CHANGES

... BEHIND THE SCENES AT DRURY LAH p. MARY CLARE'S QUICK CHANCES Mary Clare, who plays the part oj Jane Marryot in Cavalcade at Drury Lane, seen in her dressing-room putting on the costume she wears in the December 31, 1899, episode Ajter rapidly changing into ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 381 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYS

... Proposition of Euclid. Arthur Collins could, and did, stage any thing successfully, from grand opera to pantomime. His reign at Drury Lane marked the rise of spectacular melodrama and the zenith of the typically English humours of Dan Leno and Herbert Camp bell ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1885 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

if Gossip we must

... present at the performances could appreciate the enormous amount of skill and hard work entailed in successfully reproducing a Drury Lane musical drama on the amateur stage. Not unnaturally, even in the Totem Dance, the Bank performers preserved the balance ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2426 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

IN DICKEN IAN DEPTHS

... lower right hand and this picture on this double-page were taken in Shaftesbury Chambers, a doss- house in Mack/in Street, Drury Lane. Though frequented largely by regulars, a few toughs are to be founa washing-rooms, where you can dry your wash ing after ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2614 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs