... organisation. There is ho such thing as a hit-or-miss theatre there. In London the worst actor in the world can play Hamlet at Drury Lane for 20 years. All he has to do is to pay the expenses. But in Russia he would not be able to do that. People are not allowed ...

... influence of drink, driving to the danger, and driving without lights. Evidence was given that defendant was driving down Drury-lane, Solihull, without lights when his car crashed into a stationary lorry. After reversing the car he again struck the lorry ...

... FOR WORLD CITIZENSHIP Mr. R. A. Butler, President of the Board of Education, who opened at the Cify Literary Institute, Drury-lane, London, on Monday, a short course for teachers on ** The Growth of the English-Speaking Peoples,” called upon the teachers ...

... _ Benson was knighted by King George | V' at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, on May 2nd, 1916. . sir Frank, in his Memoirs, has vividly described how, after the tercentenary performance of ** Julius Casar,” no sword could be found in the theatre to comply ...

... listening to it. We yawn a little at the end of Act One. The second part of this production, consisting of a réhearsal at Drury Lane, calls for nothing but praise. Its main .action takes place on a second stage, with footlights and all the gaudy elaboration ...

... actress you discover that she does not want to talk about herself, or even ** shop.” Instead of ** When 1 played the lead at Drury Lane . . s or ** As John Gielgud said to me as wWe stood in the wings . . ~ you find that she has broadened her outlook—and, ...

... Gainsborough picture. A large portrait is reputed to be by Sir Joshua Reynolds. An elaborate engraving shows Garrick in the Drury Lane play called * The Jubilee ”” in a scene in which the great actor is reading the ode he delivered at Stratford-on-Avon. The ...

... ™ of the Christmas play is Derek Oldham—the Baron Schober of * Lilac Time,” and the leading actor in *“* Rose Marie ” at Drury-lane and ** The Vagabond King at the Winter Garden and Gaiety Theatres. ” Derek Oldham had a * command ™ performance at the White ...

... witness denied that he asked him if he could have the lorry. Special Constable Frank Wood said that he saw the lorry in Drury Lane at about 8.45 p.m. The vehicle had only one side-light and he signalled the driver to stop, but he failed to do so. P.s ...

... STATE COACH Silk hatbands, gloves and mourning cloaks for the gentlemen performers of Drury Lane Theatre were charged at £ll 14s, with an equal amount for gentlemen of Covent Garden Theatre. *Phone 2319 PERMANENT WAVING from 35- Shampoo and Setting 4/- ...

... illustrating their appropriation to the bard, introduced a line from the celebrated Prologue (by Johnson) at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre: “ Each change of many-coloured life he drew.” ey Y N T R e Y . R RO Y ) % ps > gy, >’ - o~ R n ; 5 . ) > g X SXT ...

... occupied by John Vanbrugh’s Restoration comedy * The Confederacy,” opening on July 17th. It has had many successful revivals at Drury Lane and elsewhere from 1739 to 1929. The present cast at York is: Brass, Baliol Holloway; Dick, Anthony Pendrell ; Flipanta ...