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... the scroll was enclosed in a casket made from the old woodwork in Stratford Church. After the tercentenary performance at Drury Lane in 1916 was summoned to the Boyal Box to receive the accolade from his Majesty King Geeorge V. It was fitting that Benson ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 511 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORK AT STRATFORD

... without honour in his own time. He was knighted in 1916, after the Shakespeare Tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar at Drury Lane, and he was the only actor to be knighted in a theatre with a “property” sword. King Gehrge summoned him to the Royal Box ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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ALBRICHTON Tuesday, Jan. 2

... 10 0 CROOME Tuesday, Jan. 2 The Ewe and Iximb Hanley Swan 10 0 Saturday, Jan. 6 Pirton Sidings 10 LEDBURY Monday. Jan. 1 Drury Lane (Pony Club invited) 10 Friday. Jan. 5 Chaceley Church Monday, Jan Upleadon Cross Friday, Jan. 12 Tirley Church 10 0 MEYNELL ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMAZING PRAYER BY GOEBBELS

... services were recognised by the knighthood conferred upon him at the Shakespeare tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar at Drury Lane, London, in 1916. In his stage costume he received the accolade with a property sword in the Royal box, amid a scene of ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 725 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGH

... since David Garrick. He prized the distinction highly, as he did the Knighthood bestowed on him by King George V in a box at Drury Lane during the Shakespeare tercentenary celebrations. But the highest honour he received was the title by which he was known ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 344 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HUNTING LEDBURY

... HUNTING LEDBURY The Ledbury Hounds had good sport for the meet at Drury Lane, Redmarley, the residence of the joint Master, Colonel L. R. Kettle. Members of the children’s Pony Club, in addition to many followers—about a hundred in all—took part on foot ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HIPPODROME

... and Doreen Dalton, RriJ J Charming. Specialities will be introduced the Four Marvels, Eugene’s Flying Ballet, , Twelve Drury Lane Babes, and the Streamline Girls. Performances will be gi' in the afternoon and evening each day. I he pantomime “ Aladdin ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Round the shows

... Butterfly Ballet. Interesting speciality numbers are introduced by Eugene’s Flying Ballet, the Four Manuels; the Twelve Drury Lane Babes; and the Sixteen Streamline Girls. esl Bromwich More pantomime here; this lime Babes in the Wood ” in the neat traditional ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1177 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HIPPODROME

... and Malborne and Goode (the Broker’s Men). They are supported by the Sixteen Streamlined Girls and Eileen Rogan's Twelve Drury Lane ißabes. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Renee Goes In For Big Business

... Cinders, and Doreen Dalton as Prince Charming. Speciality numbers include Eugene’s Flying Ballet, the Four Manuels, the Twelve Drury Lane Babes, and the Sixteen Streamline Girls. MOSCOW UP THE POLE: ROME MORE ANTI-RED From a Special Correspondent radio stations ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 712 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CANLEY SCHOOL TRIBUTE

... and saw a man on the roof. Before the* court was Andrew Carney (aged •37), described as a barman, of Siddons Buildings, Drury Lane, London, and he was committed for trial on a charge of entering the vicarage with intent to commit a felony. Mrs. Howson ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 766 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Leaflets Cost Gestapo Sleep

... the responsibility is solely that of the direction of E.N.S.A. for not providing them with better material. Now that the Drury-lane people know that the 8.E.F., 1940. demands a reasonable intellectual standard in even its free shows they may inclined to ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 922 | Page: 4 | Tags: none