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... their long stage experience that they have appeared in a show together. V^OUTH is decidedly the keynote of Oklahoma at A Drury Lane. The company numbers fifty and apart from only two players it is composed of young people between the ages of twenty and ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 694 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LOVELY MISS LINLEY: Sheridan's Elopement And Secret Marriage With The Beautiful Young Bath Singer

... to be, despite parental opposition on both sides which compelled him, when she was appear ing with father and family at Drury Lane, to await her at the stage door disguised as a hackney coachman so that he might drive her home, enjoying sweet dalliance ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1659 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... Annie Carnes (the girl who couldn't say no) in the record-breaking American musical play which is filling the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It is a simple but colourful story of early American life in Indian territory, with lyrical music based on American folk-tunes ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 676 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

Bubble and Squeak: Stories From Everywhere

... comes from J. B. Booth's Life, Laughter and Brass Hats. It concerns a re hearsal years ago of Hall Caine's The Bondman, at Drury Lane. The author had ven tured on a few suggestions to the leading lady. He said At the beginning of the speech, No one can say ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 863 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Greatest Clown of Them All?

... The Greatest Clown of Them All V Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells these were the stamping-grounds of Grimaldi, darling of early nineteenth- century audiences. His most famous pantomime was Mother Goose, and when he died in 1837 he bequeathed ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1012 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

SHOW GUIDE: Pantomimes

... who shine so brightly. They are Dolores Gray, who finds that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, and dashing Bill Johnson. DRURY LANE Oklahoma This outstand ing U.S. success is tuneful, decorative and moves with transatlantic speed and smoothness. DUKE OF ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

SHOW GUIDE: Pantomimes

... who shine so brightly. They are Dolores Gray, who finds that 44 You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, and dashing Bill Johnson. DRURY LANE Oklahoma This outstand ing U.S. success is tuneful, decorative and moves with transatlantic speed and smoothness. DUKE OF ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 911 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

SHOW GUIDE: Pantomimes

... who shine so brightly. They are Dolores Gray, who finds that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, and dashing Bill Johnson. DRURY LANE-- Oklahoma! This outstand ing U.S. success is tuneful, decorative and moves with transatlantic speed and smoothness. DUKE ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 916 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

Thanks for These Memories

... homeward call. Sometimes memories are what you dream when you are awake. Let me dream a few minutes, back into the gallery at Drury Lane. It is Boxing Night and Jimmy Glover had just swung round to face the audience and play God Save the King. Yes, they played ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

Priscilla in Paris For Dear Life

... and her voice, though tiny, was sweet and true. I am quite certain that she played Cinderella to Harry Fragson's Dame in a Drury Lane pantomime one Christmas. Harry wrote several songs for her and one of them, Whispers of Love, was whistled by every errand-boy ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1148 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Myself at the Pictures: Give Warners Their Due

... Myself at the Pictures Give Warners Their Due By James Agate THE other morning in the dilapidated barracks which used to be Drury Lane Theatre I looked in at a rehearsal of a show intended by E.N.S.A. for Burma. An admirable little show, with two first-rate ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By..

... which a female unit of State Theatre-personnel named Gwyn, Elinor (ST/17769), was slung in the cooler for selling oranges at Drury Lane without a B licence from the Minister of Nutricion-Intake (Mr. Nitchevoff). Public Informer N663 got the axe simultaneously ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1171 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations