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At The Pictures: The Neagle and the Lockwood

... herself equally at home at the court of Prince Albert and at that of K ing Charles, in Curzon Street, A.T.A. uniform, or Drury Lane. The modern Elizabeth of Ladymead has a brain storm over the difficulty of welcoming home' her soldier-husband (Hugh Williams) ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1282 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

PORTRAITS IN PRINT: SIMON HARCOURT-SMITH

... with Mathews, in one of v .eh he was severely wounded, and the Li icy family ended up as his partners in ti ownership of Drury Lane. Iowever the lovers may have quarrelled, Sheridan was utterly distraught with grief when .Elizabeth died in 1792 at the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1512 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... her precious windows is another matter. Probably not. She knew all about fiddlers not to speak of woodwind from the old Drury Lane days. Fie Fie The amorous rogues We hope we 're not too strait-laced about all these Bohemians art and music boys, poets ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1448 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... heard of the celebrated eighteenth-century actor and play wright, Charles Macklin Macklin gave his farewell performance at Drury Lane at the age of ninety- nine, wrote a five-act comedy at 101, and died at 107 as recorded on his memorial tablet in St. Paul's ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1482 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Sketch-Book

... Yesterday. I was fortunate enough to sit next to the charming little lady who is courted by the cowboy every evening at Drury Lane. I noticed that she was wearing a suspiciously matronly garment. I 'm leaving the show at the end of July, she said. Don't ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1680 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... things foiled wicked young Lord Mohun and his rakehelly young friend Captain Richard Hill that December night of 1691 near Drury Lane stage-door (1) his Lordship and the Captain were excessively drunk (2)' Mrs. Brace- girdle's Mamma, who clung to her daughter's ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1671 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Sketch-Book

... public protest and cause a scene. I loved Oklahoma when I saw it in New York, I liked it enormously on its first night at Drury Lane. I even enjoyed it mildly on the birthday occasion of La feune Fille, but during the heat wave I could not take the Aberdeen ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By..

... cow, not if I were you, boy. Listen, in London (Here Beethoven relates for the fifth time how Hamlet had a record run at Drury Lane because a real doggie ran across the stage in Act III.) Yeah, well, the saps would think a cow was me old haybag soprano ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1416 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 95

... made a great name and niche for himself in the World of London Enter tainment. For several years he was General Manager of Drury Lane and he directed his own play-producing company with notable success. He knew everybody in Theatreland and the World of Music ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1956 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... held such a gay raffish company still .more incredible that the Maypole then stood permanently opposite Somerset House, and Drury Lane was full of trulls and mopsies all a-blowing and a-brawling. Tonic That high tension Restoration gaiety is mostly illusion ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1738 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By: One Thing and Another

... girl's working clothes. She must feel naked without them, and you 'd think ENSA could have done something about it. From Drury Lane, ENSA's H.Q., to the premises of Elder and Fyffe, Britain's lead ing banana-importers, in Bow Street is only nve minutes ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1642 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Portraits in Print

... secrets with which he was entrusted. He was fired, and thereupon found his true vocation with the King's company ol actors at Drury Lane. His success was immedi ate and great, the excellence of his acting and brilliancy of wit having the effect, in that dis ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1863 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations