... 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 ...

... experience and sharpened by time. In any case the title ought to have recalled one of the most unforgettably foolish of that Drury Lane series of musical plays which began with Rose Marie. The film was that same musical, with the same alternately cloying and ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... defy but fulfil tradition, should be ephemeral, but that this particular example should wear so well. Its initial run at Drury Lane, you may remember, was inter rupted by the outbreak of the war. Since then it has toured the country continuously, but shows ...

... Veronica Brady and Iror I\nveUo One, two, three Up She Goes Photographs by Swacbe When war broke out, The Dancing Years was at Drury Lane The theatre was taken over by Ensa, and Ivor Novello took h s Dancing Years to the provinces. He has now brought it back ...

... 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 ...

... remember, was one of those high-powered importations from America which, in the nineteen-twenties, found so congenial a home at Drury Lane. It has been running, on and off, and here and there, ever since. Its immediate predecessor and compatriot, Rose Marie, ...

... 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 ...

... and a delightful singer her father was Tom Bur! the famous operatic and concert tenor, and her mother is Marie Burks the Drury Lane star. She played in Drinkwater's last play, A Man's Horn' at the Malvern Festival and, hy way of contrast, in Cochran's ...