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How a Radio Play is Born

... broadcast of _£\ c av a I c a d e Mary O'Farrell who played the lead in the radio version and Mary Clare who played the lead at Drury Lane How A Radio Play Is Born Continued from page 17) in broadcast drama, is entirely one of sound nothing visual enters into ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2840 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON'S Vanished Theatres

... history. It was built in 1840 by a Miss Kelly, who had made her reputation in both comedy and melodrama at the Haymarket and Drury Lane. At first used largely for amateur theatricals, it became a burlesque house. Miss Kelly lost over ten thousand pounds ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3047 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

FAY COMPTON IN A CHRISTMAS-CARD SETTING

... FAY COMPTON IN A CHRISTMAS -CARD SETTING. MISS FAY COMPTON is the Principal Boy, Robin Hood, in the Drury Lane pantomime The Babes in the Wood. Here she is posed in a decor with a real Christmas-card atmosphere about it. Scenes from the panto are given ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 54 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY

... SKETCH'S DIARy. IHfc FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. Having decided to enjoy a genuine Christmas, I f I went 011 bv attending premiere of DRURY LANE SI j PANTOMIME, THE BABES IN THE j) I WOOD. This is panto., with a difference. It's SI f true that the lavish production ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1445 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

Circus and Pantomime: The Famous Bertram Mills Show at Olympia; Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre

... Circus anc Pantomime The Famous Bertram Mills Show at Olympia I Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre CIRCUS and pantomime time has come round again, and at Olympia the Bertram Mills Circus provides a spectacle as brilliant and thrilling as ever. ...

Article

... the audience to sine it with him, and they actually do. There you have some of the chief features of Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane, which is a good pantomime and likely to run until long after the children have been packed off to school again. At the ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2140 | Page: 32 | 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 

MARCO MILLIONS: A ... BRILLIANT SATIRICAL COMEDY

... In the stage directions accompanying the text O'Neill indicates a production on a scale which should only be attempted by Drury Lane. Had we believed this to be really necessary we should not have attempted the play with the very limited resources of this ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2357 | Page: 29 | 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. 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