... A 3 OLD crsTor The ceremony yesterday at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, of inspecting the ingredients and mixing the Betideley cake is on. of the most interesting living traditions which the theatre to-day has inherited. ft has an interesting origin. ...

... moot adventurous could wish. And that may serve to introduce Xenia Astafieva, the soung dancer, who is appe aring in the Drury Lane production of Wild Violets, on tour. Xenia can just remember the grim, but exciting, days As revolutionary Petrogradwhere ...

... LEADING LADY'S GEIER RISE. The choice of Victoria Hopper as one of the leading ladies in the big new Drury Lane musical comedy, Three Sisters, which is now being rehearsed for Faster production, calls attention to • rapid went into the firmament of stars ...

... TO BELFAST OPERA 'torn. The fame of The Bohemian Girl, first produced at Drury Lane in 1843, soon ppread over Europe, where it was translated into many languages. Many of the operas of Belie, like other ballad (iwias, have become unfashionable, but ...

... did women begin to smoke in public? This question was being argued at • rehearsal of Three Sisters when 1 looked in at Drury Lane. Part of the show has a 1914 background. and there was some uncertainty as to whether women—or should I say ladies?—smoked ...

... , is announced, has had a lightning rise to I tame. She is et present playing in the noisiest play, Three Sisters, at Drury Lane. hie appears as one of the sisters. Miss Hopper first kept into the limelight less than a year ago, when an operatic student ...

... is in this and her connection with the stage goes hack to the days of John L. Tonle. Sir Herbert Tree, and the heyday of Drury Lane. ...

... Dean selected her for the part of Tessa and the two met in the Tyrol. She is now in the musical play, Three Sisters, at Drury Lane, London, and when her engagement took place she said they would probably find it impossible to take • honeymoon because ...

... jokes lie never made. Miller was born in 1884. and first appeared in the caste of Sir Robert Howard's Committee at the Drury Lane in 17011. On the stage he was an excellent comedian. but when he took his ease in his . inn, the Black Jack. in Clare ...

... -oifty. Catherine Malone. Ma in Strwebt-f;aatletrlarner. Sweet Afton, A-23i8. P. J. Carroll and Co.. Ltd. D;siMians. Drury Lane, Dublin. P. Hand. Gee% ille Arms. Mullingar. Gal send Yon Back to Us, Flnllydebob T. Funeh, Monte°, Belfast. D X 81428 ...

... call. Give the cast their due. They played the piece through as thotieli they were playing before A crowded audience at Drury Lane. Can Art achieve higher flights than that? —Peter Simple in the Morning Post. A TEST OF PATIENCE. I went to the cricket ...

... from them on the subject. NOUSE RAN ON THE STAGE. AND DANCER GOT A FRIGHT. During • performance at the Fortune 'Theatre, Drury Lane. London. on Tuesday ovesiag, a moves ran on to the stage. Owe of the performers. Miss Jean Canters, was giving_ a dancing ...