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PETROL VAPOUR: Answer That!

... of low rating, than the constant use that has to be made of the gear-lever. STAGE-DOOR KEEPERS SERIES, NO. 6: WOODY OF DRURY LANE Mr. A. Woodward is perhaps the busiest stage-door keeper in London, as the productions at Old Drury usually have from three ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1017 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations 

Here We Are Again!: Cinderella (Drury Lane)

... Here We Are Again Cinderella (Drury Lane) No impious hands are laid upon Cinderella in this latest version of the old fairy-tale at Drury Lane, and the most critical child will admit that the story is well and truly kept to. The Good Fairy still spoils ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 579 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Pantomimes, Ancient and Modern

... audience. When I was seven, the 1870's were quite new, and even Dan Leno hadn't arrived. But I remember my brother taking me to Drury Lane every year on New Year's Day and from Christmas onward I used to pray for them to make it last for hours and hours. Now ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1415 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... out robbing cigarette machines We think not. Fireman, Save My Leg T egs, said one of the firemen at I the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, to one of those inquisitive Press boys the other day, aren't so large now as they used to be in the old days. But they ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

Foreign Folk English and French Versions: Second Thoughts on First Nights; Glamorous Night (Drury Lane)

... and French Versions Second Thoughts on First Nights Glamorous Night (Drury Lane) IVOR NOVELLO has performed, with uncanny cleverness, the difficult feat of making a play to fit Drury Lane Theatre. Glamorous Night was devised, written, and composed by him ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1065 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

Article

... Musical comedy on a large scale, with Mary Ellis and Ivor Novello as stars a pleasant evening for the Ruritanian-minded Drury Lane, 8.15. Wed., Sat., 2.30. Jack o' Diamonds. Gay and witty lyrics the Cinder ella story makes a cheerful, amused evening Greta ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1745 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

GLAMOROUS NIGHT: A Production in the Grand Manner, with Ivor Novello at Drury Lane

... Mmm GLAMOROUS NIGHT- A Production in the Grand Manner, with Ivor Novello at Drury Lane RH NERN4N |KH rMILITZA'S COM PANION Minnie Raynor as Phoebe, accustomed to temper ament and temper, treats kings and tenors J with equal indifference On left: A SMALL ...

Standing By: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... we are the only other theatre-lovers alive who have ever read Lamb's comedy right through. It was hissed off the stage at Drury Lane, Lamb himself hissing as much as anybody. The fun of the evening centres round a Mr. Hogsflesh, who dare not reveal his ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2081 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

East End Prince: A Cinderella Story

... still stood Cinderella in all the glory of a princess. On her head a coronet rested, not much of a one, perhaps, judged from Drury Lane standards. It would have looked pathetic in the Jewel Room of the Tower, but in the parish hall it cast little flashes of ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2390 | Page: 90 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... prints of the period show the diversity of their costume. Hence the ritual glazed hats, striped vests and bell-bottoms of Drury Lane and other stage Trafalgar seamen are pure fiction, like the alleged perpetual gaiety and solid worth of those who follow ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2049 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: He-Girls at Play

... It is claimed that this, from a woman, is remarkable (despite the im mediate case in point from Miss Leontine Sagan and Drury Lane's Glamorous Night). Miss Croft is a fully competent task-mistress. She presents a virile chorus in support of Mr. Bernard ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1285 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

How Times do Change: No. 10. The Theatre

... managements, unlike many of the present day who produce every kind of entertainment under one roof, believed in continuity. At Drury Lane the Autumn Drama and Pantomime were the staple at tractions; Mr. Irving, the public's very faithful servant, mainly relied ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations