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New Books for the New Year

... the list of plays in which Sir Henry Irving appeared, between 1871 and 1903, at the Lyceum Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as marked by Her Majesty Queen Mary to indicate which were the plays she witnessed. In this connexion, it is interesting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... the story he revels in all the robust dialogue Miss Ashton's narrative lacks. When Garrick gives Dick his blessing on the Drury Lane management, he says: You must be your own pilot. Have a care to steer wide of the reefs. What reefs? The bottle, the ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2874 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

Round the New Shows: At the Theatre

... of Cairo A version of this one-act work, which the composer started in 1783 and never finished, was, it seems, given at Drury Lane in 1870, which was before even my time. That version is said to have contained precious little real Mozart so those who ...

THE CINEMA: Away From It All

... experience and sharpened by time. In any case the title ought to have recalled one of the most unforgettably foolish of that Drury Lane series of musical plays which began with Rose Marie. The film was that same musical, with the same alternately cloying and ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Books

... tremendously, and the London of his day comes to life. It is a full history, 62 easy to read, especially such scenes as that in Drury Lane when he was one of the first to join in the booing of this first play, Mr. H, from which he had great hopes. Another confessed ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1528 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review