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Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... be re- He was knighted by King George V use in 1914. when it was believed that duced from 48 to 44 a week from yester ,at Drury-lane Theatre in 1916, after the great bulk of nervous disorders day under the provisions the Young A strong protest against farmhouse ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

To-day in The Bal Tabarin

... an English journalist who in turn introduced him to Arthur Collins, who gave him a break by putting him into panto at Drury Lane. That was Potts's introduction to fame and fortune. Perhaps you will be more interested in the story of Potts and the Bal ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3285 | Page: 89 | Tags: Photographs 

New Books for the New Year

... the list of plays in which Sir Henry Irving appeared, between 1871 and 1903, at the Lyceum Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as marked by Her Majesty Queen Mary to indicate which were the plays she witnessed. In this connexion, it is interesting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

SIR FRANK BENSON DEAD Famous Exponent of Shakespeare j

... but it was the year in which Benson was knighted . He received the accolade > . from King George V , in the Royal box F at Drury Lane , still in the blood-stained ^ robes of Julius Caesar . When , next j morning , he returned to Stratford , he ; was pulled ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2721 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR FRANK BENSON DEAD

... September, 1882, and his last recorded appearance was almost exactly 50 years later. He was knighted by King George V. at Drury Lane Theatre in 1916, after the Shakespeare Tercentenary performance. In 1933 he was given Civil List pension of £100 a year ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DEATH OF SIR FRANK BENSON

... services were recognised by the knighthood conferred upon him at the Shakespeare tercentenary performance of Julius Cwsar” at Drury-lane.in 1916. In his stage costume received the accolade with a property sword in the royal box, amid a scene of remarkable fervour ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ACCOLADE IN STAGE COSTUME

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

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Sir Frank Benson

... never die. To be an Old Bensonian has for years been dramatic hallmark; to speak reminiscently of the days of Benson at Drury Lane has in it something of the histrionic nostalgia with which stage patriarchs recall Henry Irving. Sir Frank, in short, was ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 91 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

He Brought Shakespeare To The People

... September, 1882, and his last recorded appearance was almost exactly 50 years later. He was knighted by King George V. at Drury Lane Theatre in 1916 after the Shakespeare tercentenary performance. In 1933 he was given a civil list pension of £lOO a year ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STRATFORD FESTIVAL

... services were recognized by the knighthood conferred upon him at the Shakespearian tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar at Drury Lane in 1916. In his stage costume he received the accolade with property sword in the Royal Box. From 1886, for 30 years, he ...

The Birmingham Post

... 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