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Standing By: One Thing and Another

... then plunging like a rocket into the deep. The Argyll- 3 shire monster may of course, judging by description, be a retired Drury Lane 1 principal boy. If the fur is mink or |t sables, this is obvious. They often sit on rocks and lure mariners, but not very ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1726 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... happen in Manchester do that lovely city a fearful wrong. There was a rapier- duel by candle-light there in 1760, just like Drury Lane. We came upon it by pure accident while looking up the files of The Gentleman's Magazine, hoping (as ever) to discover what ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1764 | 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 

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 

Myself at the Pictures: Give Warners Their Due

... Myself at the Pictures Give Warners Their Due By James Agate THE other morning in the dilapidated barracks which used to be Drury Lane Theatre I looked in at a rehearsal of a show intended by E.N.S.A. for Burma. An admirable little show, with two first-rate ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | 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 

BACKSTAGE

... when you had the choice of at least a dozen first-class productions in the West End and the inner circle of London, when Drury Lane competed with Covent Garden and the Lyceum, when such theatres as the long-departed Surrey, the Britannia (Hoxton), the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 643 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

BACKSTAGE with

... next March it will have an entirely new production. Joseph Carl, who painted the scenery for the original production at Drury Lane in 1939, is now busy designing fresh sets. TTarry Dubeny and Bill O'Bryen are proud of the J-Xfact that seven out of a cast ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 641 | Page: 9 | 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 

BACKSTAGE

... its fortnight's season at Blackpool it is due in the West End. YV7HEN Noel Coward's musical romance Pacific 1860 opens at Drury Lane tomorrow (Thursday) first-nighters will see little trace of the extensive bomb damage of 1940, so well has the work of ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 667 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Theatre

... Pacific 1860 (Drury Lane) DRURY LANE reopens not with a cavalcade but with a charade, a pretty, prattling tuneful charade. Mr. Noel Coward always knows what he is after, and this time it is a romantic escape to as far as possible from the present in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEATRE GUIDE

... Evans and Godfrey Tearle. With Music Sweetest and Lowest (Ambassadors). Hermione Gingold, Walter Crisham. Pacific, 1860 (Drury Lane). Noel Coward's new operetta with Mary Martin. The Coward touch is, as always, tuneful, accomplished and spectacular. Perchance ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 564 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations