Refine Search

GATHER ROUND HE LAUGHS BEST TALES OF OLD TIME MERRY MEN How Peter Doody Was Made: and What Dan Leno

... that with him temporarily died the project Dan Leno’s Art Another Christmas memory recalls Dan Leno Oh those first nights Drury Lane pantomime! 1 grow old and blither in senile decreptitude or am 1 right in proclaiming Dan Leno as the most irresistibly ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2102 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH TUESDAY 3 JANUARY 1933 I N FL U E N Z A PERILS Famous Doctor's Advice Influenza fair

... ihe ancient Roman Saturnalia but no merry-making has been arranged for Friday old custom of cutting the Baddeley cake at Drury Lane Theatre just after midnight remains The cake is made in memory of actor called Baddeley who was one time a cook left a bequest ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1933
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4240 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CUTTING THE BADDELEY CAKE

... CUTTING THE BADDELEY CAKE f .4 fry The famous Baddeley cake being cut and toasted in traditional manner at the Drury-lane Theatre, London, by the cast of Wild Violets. Robert Baddeley, who won fame as an impersonator of Jews and Frenchmen, and who ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH FRIDAY 13 JANUARY 1933 13 STAGE GOSSIP MISSED DRURY LANE GWLADYS STANLEY principal boy in the ..

... know” Might Have Been at Drury-lane is very fond of ' Waltzes from Vienna” That periiaps is just as well for exactly week after she signed the contract to appear it on tour she offered an engagement in Wild Violets at Drury-lane She stuck Waltzes” which ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1933
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2998 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

WELL' of course the outstanding event of the cinema week in Birmingham has been the presentation Grand Hotel” ..

... “Cavalcade” “ The Miracle” and The Dubarry” Torn Arnold in addition to “Waltzes frofti Vienna” has started “Wild Violets” the Drury Lane success on a tour of the country Prince Littler continues to make good with White Horse Inn” and there is inspired talk ...

Published: Sunday 15 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2967 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

DON'T !LIDE ALONG SEE PAGE 11

... speaking parts. Street Scene had 30. Jkirrilinghapt Gimetis photograph, VIOLET, the cow appearing in — Wild Violets at Drury Lane. is greatly honoured. Owing to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease she is the only cow in the country specially licensed ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

FAMOUS FIGURES

... Terry, Martin Harvey, Forbes-Robertson. were all having regular seasons in London; melodrama flourished at the Lyceum and Drury Lane theatres, while H. B. Irving was at the Savoy. Frederick Harrison was in management at the Haymarket, Robert Courtneidge ...

Published: Monday 23 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 272 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN A MONASTERY GARDEN

... had then worked it up for an Eastern bazaar scene in a sentiment of a certain sketch, and picture of t hat monastery came Drury-lane pantomime. Jimmy Glover liked it, but said it was too the winning tune was to be played back to me. Why not something long ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

marking traffic control lines arrows and Utters evolved being tested at of New-street Corporation-street ..

... the to JOll arrive Mr Irving Asher production chief of Warner Brothers Miss Tberese Vincent is starring Wild Violets at Drury-lane FLAXEN CURLS Ten minutes later dressed in nigger-brown velvet suit with heavy fox round shoulders close fitting brown liat ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1933
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2244 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY 5 HSBRUARY 1933 11 Britain to Have World’s Largest Liner QUEENS BEAUTY CINEMAS OPEN TODAY! - ' v

... Edward Mine Espinosa the once famous dancer at her London home yesterday at the age of 84 As Miss Matilda studied M Petite at Drury-lane three years later went to Paris where siie Leon Espinosa who was ballet master at Porte St Martin Theatre They married Mme ...

Published: Sunday 05 February 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3310 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MME. ESPINOSA Death of Former Famous Dancer Mme. Espinosa. the once famous dancer, died at her London Dome on ..

... famous dancer, died at her London Dome on Saturday at the age of 84. As Miss Matilda Obust she studied under M. Petite at Drury-lane, and three years later went to Paris, where she met M. Leon Espinosa, who was ballet master at the Porte St. Martin Theatre ...

Published: Monday 06 February 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 110 | Page: 8 | Tags: none