... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the story he revels in all the robust dialogue Miss Ashton's narrative lacks. When Garrick gives Dick his blessing on the Drury Lane management, he says: You must be your own pilot. Have a care to steer wide of the reefs. What reefs? The bottle, the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Jkeatre SR.oya.1 in the Desert With. ENS A in the Middle East f By W. Macqueen-Pope ANY day at Drury Lane Theatre you may see a little party of girls, excited and wide-eyed, rushing madly from room to room, signing forms, packing up baskets, chattering ...

... countryside, and deserves study by every thinking person. This is a first-class production. Books (Continued from page 41) at Drury Lane from the balcony. It looks like comparative peace and success for Nicky i who has already played his part in a very J pleasant ...

... homeward call. Sometimes memories are what you dream when you are awake. Let me dream a few minutes, back into the gallery at Drury Lane. It is Boxing Night and Jimmy Glover had just swung round to face the audience and play God Save the King. Yes, they played ...

... but this is, in truth, the oldest English building of its kind with a continuous existence as a theatre. In London, famed Drury Lane, a far older construction originally, had been totally destroyed by fire and completely rebuilt. Wintry months bring wintry ...

... by an official of ENSA. Recording its three centuries of history, s Mr. W. J. Macqueen Pope writes in Theatre (j Royal Drury Lane (W. H. Allen, 17s. 6d.): S Orange girls, tragedians, comedians, buffoons, clowns, swindlers and men of S high repute immortal ...

... was also a frequent star of panto mime at Drury Lane (On left) A feature of pantomime time at Drury Lane. The cutting of the Bad- deley Cake on Twelfth Night. This cake is provided by a legacy left to Drury Lane Theatre by Robert Baddeley, a pastry cook ...