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... to be seen. The tak ings are generously passed on to a children's hospital. CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. BABES IN THE WOOD, at Drury Lane. Under a spreading chestnut tree the village moron peers the fool, a frightful chump is he, with large and blithering ears ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE

... Procession For eighty years it has gone on and on, and the theatre-managers have cashed in and in. So here they are again, at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Lyceum bosomed Princes, mus cular Dames, human horses, child-choruses, flying ballets, acrobatics ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

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 

THE CINEMA

... his delicate arms are just as they should be. Robin Hood (FAY COMPTON). This is how Sherriffs sees BABES IN THE WOOD, at Drury Lane ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1118 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Other

... BERTRAM MILLS CIRCUS (Olympia). KRONE CIRCUS (Agricultural Hall). DOORLAY'S CHRISTMAS ROCKET (Coliseum). BABES IN THE WOOD (Drury Lane). PETER PAN (Palladium). QUEEN OF HEARTS (Lyceum). CHARLEY'S AUNT (Haymarket). THE BOY WHO LOST HIS TEMPER (Duke ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 179 | Page: 28 | Tags: Other 

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 

8 NEWS CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11, 1939

... rat. bor.ie, Geo. Jackley. Mew Ir. 3,6, Ual.l 6 CRITERION. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS. 8.40. Tues.. Thurs.. Sat. 2.30. 3rd Year. DRURY LANE. I tem. 7141.1 Dly., 2.0 & 7.45. * BABES IN THE WOOD. U. 8. Melvin. lay Compton. Jack Edge, Greta Payne. DUCHESS. Tens ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OPERA AND BALLET KINGSWAY—(HOLBORN 5642.) CHAUVE SOURIS. Tuesday Next. 8.30. Ist Mat, Sat, Jan. 21, 2.30. $ ..

... Jackley. Res. from 3/6. Gallery 1/6. CRITERION—Evgs, 8.40. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS. Mats, TUES, THURS, SAT, 2.30. 3rd Year. DRURY LANE—(Tem. 7171.) Daily, 2.0 and 7.45. BABES IN THE WOOD, with G. S. Melvin. Fay Compton, Jack Edge, Greta Payne. DUCHESS—(Tem ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FATHERED DRAMA FINALISTS

... FATHERED DRAMA FINALISTS STRIDING about the Fortune Theatre, just off Drury Lane, yesterday afternoon was a tired but happy man. He was seeing his reward for the care which for 17 years he has lavished on Northenden Amateur Dramatic Society. These North ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEIL KENYON in Scottish Character Studies, eef _ i BUNNY DOYLE Pa8- Tom Arnold's Sleeping Beauty.'* n GINGHAM ..

... Aft Q(?8 House, Leeds Road, Blackpool. Telephone 3519. >^,BY'S FLYING BALLETS S Pan Covent Gdn. 14 Babes in the Wood. Drury Lane. Palladium, etc. 110, Tulse Hill. S.W.2. (Tulse Hill 2407.) tc- I BIG HEARTED ARTHUR ASKEY business Representatives: Reeves ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1076 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MIS* dolly harmer. t s Lionel Wallace for offer. Temple Bar 8092. I Nn il'lE RAYNER. AUX'i' UvS,w Crest of

... Hou. 2014. pRANKLAND GREY. J- Comedian-Producer. 8*2, Gloucester St., S.W.I. Victoria 5951. GS. M E L V I N. Pantomime. DRURY LANE THEATRE. MR. GEORGE MILLER. 8, Priory Road. Kilburn. N.W.G. 'Phone. Maida Vale 1724. ARTHUR HELMOR E. It. Spencer Hill, ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 842 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

VARIETY GOSSIP

... friends as Aunt Polly, was the mother of the Five Vernons xylophonists) and sister to the late Amy Rosa lind (wife of the Drury Lane clown, Fred Evans.) and Will Simpson, once a well-known clown and pantomimist. She was aunt to the late Will Evans and to ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3135 | Page: 7 | Tags: none