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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: 22, 71, 72 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

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: 27, 88, 89 | Tags: Photographs 

Round the New Shows

... is the pantomime at Golders Green Hippodrome this year. Princess Beauty is dainty Greta Fayne, who was Principal Girl at Drury Lane last year. Anne Jiegler, the radio singer, is Prince Silverihistle. LADIES IK RETIREMENT Richard Newton is the only man ...

London Federation of Boys' Clubs

... points. 7 ST. 7 LB. UNDER This was a good fight. R. Fordham {Lion, Hoxton) the winner, has his man, J. Kent Inns of Court, Drury Lane), on the ropes. 9 ST. AND UNDER F. Hitchin High Street, Shadwell) leaps in to finish off V. Smith Downham Community) 9 ST ...

There's History in Every Brick

... once the great rival of Drury Lane. Handel it was who first brought Italian Opera to London and obtained a £50,000 subscription to launch his season which did not, however, become a success. Then the battle royal between Drury Lane and Covent Garden started ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3279 | Page: 20, 84, 85, 86, 87 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... conspicuous in 1 he Glen. GRACIE FIELDS and MAURICE CHEVALIER appeared at the Entente Cordiale ANGLO- FRENCH MATINEE AT DRURY LANE last week, provided by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes and arranged by E.N.S.A. as a return gesture for the ent ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CINEMA: Lovely Nonsense

... doubtless luncheon with President Roosevelt. What happens to the ape we do not learn. J. A. Gracie and Maurice Together again at Drury Lane last week when Maurice paid a flying visit to London to appear in a return match for the Foyers Franco-Brittaniques held ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1307 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The Provincial Theatre

... Dancing Years, with Roma Beaumont. It was his idea, I believe, eventually to bring this spectacular musical-comedy back to Drury Lane, where, however, E.N.S.A. is likely to remain in possession for an indefinite time. The new revue in which Stanley Lupino ...

Books

... tremendously, and the London of his day comes to life. It is a full history, 62 easy to read, especially such scenes as that in Drury Lane when he was one of the first to join in the booing of this first play, Mr. H, from which he had great hopes. Another confessed ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--THE LUPINOS, for being the Royal Family of Greasepaint and in four hundred years ..

... stars. LUPINOS AND LANES AND BRITANNIA HOXTON TRADITION. Traditional clown JOSEPH GRIMALDI, Drury Lane, 1795. Tradition carried on GEORGE LUPINO as a clown, Drury Lane, 1912. Seventeenth-century French Punchinello, which, as a puppet show, was brought to England ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 642 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Who'll Be the Big Names After the War?

... of Keep the Home Fires Burning. It would not have seemed likely, at the time, that he would ever play Henry the Fifth at Drury Lane. Quite a schoolboy still was a slim youth called Cecil Beaton, destined to become J. B. PRIESTLEY i| He did five years of ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1544 | Page: 30, 31, 67 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... she first came here with Colonel de Basil's company. Her last appearance as a Russian dancer was with Massine's Company at Drury Lane in 1938. Last summer she and her English husband had a perilous journey back from the South of France, in his yacht. Since ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs