... (bfr TfuL ly 0-* Bless The Bride (Adelphi) Oklahoma! (Drury Lane) BIG BEN loosed a swarm of bees that had long buzzed in Sir Alan Herbert's bonnet. There were redundant nose-pokers, kill joys who would deny the Briton his liquor, legislators thin-blooded ...

... practically reared in Drury Lane. There have been four Drury Lane Theatres the theatre of Killigrew and the Restoration, the Drury Lane of Garrick, of Sheridan and Siddons, the Drury Lane of Augustus Harris and Arthur Collins, and the Drury ...

... Countries and have been overtaken by the ladies of Drury Lane forwarded by a considerate Whitehall for their pleasure. Miss Daphne Anderson leads the ladies, and with a song called The Gay Little Ladies of Drury Lane she warms the stage into life. From that ...

... defy but fulfil tradition, should be ephemeral, but that this particular example should wear so well. Its initial run at Drury Lane, you may remember, was inter rupted by the outbreak of the war. Since then it has toured the country continuously, but shows ...

... chronicler, Mr. W. Macqueen-Pope, it remains the 2 place it was when Fielding fought for freedom there, Cibber used it to defy Drury Lane, Foote X flouted the law, Liston raised laughs, Romeo Coates made an ass of himself, Buckstone and s Sothern popularized ...

... but life raised to a new power, as in a day dream. The songs are not. I think, as certain of popularity as those sung at Drury Lane a id at the Coliseum. Not so much is made of them. They are deliberately subordinated in the general scheme of things to ...

... season. The professional trustees of Christmas have done a stout job of work. Elders may lament the departed glories of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Lyceum. They are unlikely to depress the youngster who is offered his choice of what is going. The ...

... Edwardes, the producer for as a play this never did amount to much, and it struck me as amounting to even less than it did at Drury Lane some sixteen years ago. The music is tuneful enough, but is spoiled by being plugged to a tedious degree. How many times ...

... leading lights of this colourful show. BACKSTAGE with 9 After the longest closure in the history of the Lpresent house, Drury Lane Theatre reopens 011 December 19, with the Noel Coward operetta Pacific I860, a show which, I gather, will reveal, among ...

... COLISEUM Annie, Get Your Gun. Dolores Gray and Bill Johnson in another tough and melodious backwoods comedy from America. DRURY LANE Oklahoma Outstanding U.S success. It is tuneful, decorative, and moves with typical transatlantic speed and smoothness. ...

... brought out, and that is the main thing, though I missed the loyely stage-pictures of previous productions at His Majesty's, Drury Lane, etc., with Mendelssohn's music played by a large orchestra the Westminster season has to be run on economical lines in ...

... Miss Helen Tamarisk, is mainly English. However this may be, the Coliseum stage has not the unity of movement achieved at Drury Lane, and the episodes between the songs and spectacles are taken too slowly. With this reservation, I have nothing but praise ...