... 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 ...

... Left Watching a rehearsal from the stalls of Drury Lane. MISS TAYLOR, secretary MISS NINA WALTON, dance producer and MR. ARCHIE DE BEAR, producer (I. to r.). Right The Paint Frame, where scenery for Drury Lane shows has been painted for centuries. To-day ...

... dance producer, MISS WALTON, looking on. Meanwhile the photographer butts in for a pictorial record. DRAWINGS BY TOPOLSKI. DRURY LANE THEATRE, one of the oldest and most famous playhouses in the world, is, during wartime, catering for the entertainment of ...

... 1905. He organised a concert party and played to troops at the Front in the 1914-18 war. He was knighted in 1935 and at Drury Lane, where, as illustrated by Topolski in our last week's issue, ENSA shoivs are 44 manufactured Sir Seymour occupies Sheridan1 ...

... 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 ...

... can be complete without the revival of The London Cuckolds, the comedy by Mr. Ravenscroft which ritually held the stage at Drury Lane every Lord Mayor's Day from the Restoration nearly to the advent of Victoria and gave our merry ancestors keen delight. ...

... bedecked and garlanded as of yore. Every May Day the Labour Party would dance round it, arm in arm with the wantons of Drury Lane, and the merry Somerset House boys would trip out, pen behind ear, and dance an antic hay with their admirers. Something ...

... John, taking us straight back to the period of Lord Mohun's midnight attempt to abduct the lovely Mrs. Bracegirdle out side Drury Lane stage-door, with a fal la la. Across the Channel at the same time we of the Theatre (Mr. Cochran) were in more constant ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...