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This Year's Galaxy of Pantomimes

... time finding it out, for it must be at least twenty years ago that he found no difficulty in being the life and soul of Drury Lane pantomimes. Principal boys should be handsome and dashing and Miss Madge Elliott well comes up to the convention. What has ...

Old Tales Re-told: The Loves of Charles II

... beer-houses and countless other haunts came into their own. Two theatres opened their doors to the public the King's at Drury Lane and the Duke's in Lincoln's Inn Fields: the first under the patronage of Charles II, the second under that of his brother ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3504 | Page: 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

UNIVERSAL

... reputable Electrical like ail UNIVERSAL Products. Shops, Electrical Undertakings and Stores. L. G. HAWKINS CO. LTD., 30-35 DRURY LANE, LONDON, W.C.2 'Phone: Temple Bar 5811 DON'T FORGET TO VISIT STANDS 57 and 58 IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION, OLYMPIA, APRIL 5th ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 283 | Page: 140 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Long Live Sanders

... Wallace and Mr. Guy Bolton for what is still a national theatre. Commissioner Sanders, meanwhile, is as valuable to Drury Lane as Drury Lane is to him. His character and adventures have made it again the home of grand spectacle and thrilling hullabaloo. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 901 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Double Bill of Ballet

... spirit of ridicule? They would dance to another tune if it came to the notice of Comrade Stalin. The Russian Ballet now at Drury Lane is, however, labelled of Monte Carlo, and their latest effort, Nobilissima Visione, is not likely to attract much adverse ...

A Sadistic Captain Tried on Richmond

... symphony (except for such as like Tchaikov sky's hysterically emotional music) and, in consequence, a most attractive ballet. Drury Lane has dug up a very old friend, Giselle, which among its many virtues gives brilliant opportunities to that excellent and ...

More Celebrities in Cameo: Leonide Massine

... had chosen to become a second Fred Astaire he might easily have succeeded as any of you who have seen Gaite Parisienne at Drury Lane this season will realise. How ever, he spent four more years with Diaghileff's company, from 1924 to 1928, and then in 1932 ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 660 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

Leslie Henson: Prince of Stage Comedians

... I became great friends with William, now the producer, and who had already started his stage career, having appeared at Drury Lane at the age of ten, and Clifford, who had since become one of our leading musical-comedy comedians. The other brother, Henry ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4704 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Shakespeare and Mr. Novello

... ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE By J LAN &OTT THERE are forty-five coats-of- arms on the vast draw-curtain for Drury Lane's production of Ivor Novello in Henry V., with Dorothy Dickson. The Presence Chamber of the English king holds many more of them, and dozens ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

KING PANTOMIME THROUGH THE AGES

... scene presented is probably a rehearsal. Pantomime m Joey Grimaldis days, 19 tk century Here is what one might have seen at Drury Lane Theatre in the pantomime season The Prince Regent watches the greatest of all clowns -Joey Grimaldi. And a Modern Pantomime ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

Poverty and a Wife-- or £20,000 and a Ritzy Doll: Story of an Underpaid Clerk at the Apollo

... London is better off than usual in this respect this year, for three of tne largest theatres are presenting pantomimes Drury Lane Babes in the Wood, with Miss Fay Compton and Mr. G. S. Melvin), the Lyceum Queen of Hearts, with Mr. Clarkson Rose) and ...