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... non-stop. Pantomime Time Three big pantos in the I Vest End are doing excellent business at Covent Garden the Lyceum and Drury Lane. Here is Lulu, the horse of great virtuosity, in The Babes in the W ood at the last named theatre Running Riot. The Gaiety ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1627 | Page: 43 | Tags: Other 

The Theatre: The Gate Revue (Gate)

... Walter Crisham, who may well be glad of an opportunity to do something more than is possible in the enormous limitations of Drury Lane in Miss Joan Swinstead, who shows that she san sing as well as she can talk, and burlesque a foreign diseuse better than ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 553 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

George Melvin: Nurse to the Babes

... Melvin Nurse to the Babes George Melvin is the nurse in charge of the Babes in the Wood in the pantomime of that name at Drury Lane urbane and eyebrow-raising, on bicycle, in nursery, or among the pie-slingers in the kitchen, he fits ideally into the show ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

Drury Lane

... Garden and Drury Lane were as the war-cries of two armies of passionate controversialists. Now these great old theatres are competitors again but more peacefully, and with a third and boisterous contestant for applause in the Lyceum. Drury Lane can claim ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... production Playhouse, 2.30 only. The Babes in the Wood.-- Fay Compton as boy, G. S. Melvin as dame, in Tom Arnold's panto Drury Lane, 2 and 7.45. Ihe Boy Who Lost His Temper. Roger Parker leads in Rica Bromley Taylor's perennial Duke of York's, 2.30. Charley's ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1548 | Page: 2 | Tags: Other 

Other

... 30 non-stop). Seasonable Specials The Babes in the Wood. Fay Compton as boy, G. S. Melvin as dame, in Tom Arnold's panto Drury Lane, 2 and 7.45. Charley's Aunt. Richard Goolden as Lord Babs in this hoary farce Haymarket, 2.30 and 8.30. Krone's Circus. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1419 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... 30 non-stop). Seasonable Specials The Babes in the Wood. Fay Compton as boy, G. S. Melvin as dame, in Tom Arnold's panto. Drury Lane, 2 and 7.45. Krone's Circus. Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, 2-45. 7-45- Sats., 2.30, 6, 8.45. Mills Circus. Olympia ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1279 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

The Kennedy Family and Dame Melvin Mary Countess Howe and Two Bears

... Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, back from Switzerland, took some of her family to their first pantomime The Babes in the Wood, at Drury Lane. The Dame, G. S. Melvin, joined their tea-party in the interval. Joseph Kennedy, Jr., was still in St. Moritz, Cresta riding ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 508 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Tues., Fri., 2.30. With Music The Babes in the Wood. Fay Coinpton as boy, G. S. Melvin as dame, in Tom Arnold's panto. Drury Lane, 2 and 7.45. An Elephant in Arcady. The Farjeons' musical play is charming, witty and elegant, with music picked from Mozart ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1399 | Page: 43 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Hulbert Saville, 8.30. With Music The Babes in the Wood. Fay Compton as boy, G. S. Melvin as dame, in Tom Arnold's panto. Drury Lane, 7.45. Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2.0. An Elephant in Arcady. The Farjeons' musical play is charming, witty and elegant, with music ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1291 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Late Joys: At the Players' Theatre

... in the big view above Ivor Novello and Dorothy Dickson were two more celebrities at the Joys. His Dancing Years is due at Drury Lane next week ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 366 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... opera stars, with a 1938 pro- and epilogue to avoid demode, is the setting for Ivor Novello's new musical with Mary Ellis Drury Lane, Thurs., 23rd. King George's Pension Matinee. A galaxy of stage stars in shorts and extracts in aid of the fund King and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1359 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs