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GOING OUT to GOINGS-ON: The Bystander in Society

... and their confeder ates. There are not a great number of pantomime-stories from which to choose, it seems. The Lyceum and Drury Lane swap over each year, Cinderella and Dick Whittington, with Aladdin to change the bowling sometimes. Douglas Byng is the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2161 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUNDABOUT

... sister Sicacbc 11 â– mm 6 Gemma Jones and Her Director Husband 6) Elisabeth Bergner talking to Dr. Paul Czinner, her husband at Drury Lane, where the ballet scenes in the film of Escape Me Never were shot. Elisabeth Berg ner is playing Gemma Jones in the screen ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 421 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE REIGN OF KING PANTOMIME

... and it has at Drury Lane and elsewhere in the matter of the pantomime renaissance. For years they said pantomime was dead, but it is now more alive and kicking than ever! Poor Julian Wylie's and Dan Leno, Junior's, joint effort at Drury Lane is something ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 171 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STORY OF SEYMOUR HICKS: From Wine Merchant's Clerk to Great Actor- The Super who became a Star

... played Cinderella. She had played it at the Lyceum, and so great was her success that she drew the audiences away from Drury Lane, which that year did very poor business. Those days of super -ing at Islington taught Seymour Hicks a lesson he never forgot ...

THIS WEEK'S NEW PLAYS IN LONDON: A Pair of Pantomimes and Jill, Darling at the Saville

... hear. The Lyceum and Drury Lane are the only pantomimes I have seen as yet, though I mean to travel as far north as Golder's Green to renew ac quaintance with Mr. George Graves as a dame. The Lyceum has the advantage over Drury Lane in that it is carrying ...

PANTOMIMES IN SEASON: Dick Whittington at the Lyceum and Cinderella at Drury Lane

... PANTOMIMES IN SEASON Dick Wliittington at the Lyceum and Cinderella at Drury Lane PANTOMIME IN THE GRAND MANNER The enchanted lake scene in Cinderella at Drury Lane with the arrival of the Prince's troops. Behind the army is a large tank of water complete ...

HOW PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY MADE HER NAME: The One Line Part that Nobody Heard--Understudying her Mother, Julia ..

... comedy, she can play tragedy, she can play Shakespeare or farce she is an actress. And this year she is Principal Boy at Drury Lane. She is not the first Terry to appear in pantomime. Her aunt, Ellen Terry, played in pantomime as well. Phyllis Neilson-Terry ...

THIS WEEK'S NEW PLAYS IN LONDON: The Dominant Sex at the Shaftesbury--Milk-and-Water on Marriage and Morals

... that time his place will be taken by Prince Nicolas Galitzine, who was associated with Sir Alfred Butt for several years at Drury Lane, A NEW adjec tive has been found by Michael Egan for one of the sexes. But he leaves a doubt as to which he champions in ...

THIS WEEK'S NEW FILMS IN LONDON: Maskerade at the Academy, Strictly Confidential at the Tivoli, and Dirty Work ..

... the days of Bonnie Charlie Stew has he invented such amazing songs. Even Miss Otis will not regret a visit to the Comedy. Drury Lane.-- Cinderella An entertainment presumably for children. But the grown-up6 are flocking in their hundreds to see June and ...

THE STORY OF AN UNWILLING MATINEE IDOL: Owen Nares-From Walking-on Parts to Actor Manager

... Beverley, was a great artist who did not disdain to turn his talent to scene painting, and was indeed on the permanent staff at Drury Lane in the days of Chatterton. On his father's side Mr. Nares HfNlnncrc: fhp Chnrr.h His nater- nal grandfather was a clergyman ...

METROPOLITAN

... British Equity-- the actors' union --issued a notice to its members not to sign any contracts to appear in the forthcoming Drury Lane production Glamorous Nights as a dispute had arisen with the theatre over the closed-shop question, and Equity was determined ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 394 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs