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OLD DRURY IN WARTIME: MANUFACTURING FORCES' ENTERTAINMENTS

... Left Watching a rehearsal from the stalls of Drury Lane. MISS TAYLOR, secretary MISS NINA WALTON, dance producer and MR. ARCHIE DE BEAR, producer (I. to r.). Right The Paint Frame, where scenery for Drury Lane shows has been painted for centuries. To-day ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

and Our Critic's Opinion of the Show

... --and Our Critic's Opinion of the Show CHEERING at curtain-fall on the Drury lane first-night might have been heard in Oklahoma itself. For a while other musical plays must seem uncommonly small. Here conventions have been discarded: anyway, none of the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 653 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

GRANT MACDONALD A QUINTET OF STARS

... player in 44 An Inspector Calls recently at the New. And Mary Martiu, singer for whom Noel Coward wrote 44 Pacific 1860 at Drury Lane Constance Cummings, actress of subtlety in 44 Clutterbuck at Wyndham's Yolande Donlan, incomparable doll of 44 Born Yesterday ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

WHITBREAD

... Then, in middle age, fate directed that he should become the guiding influence in a very different enterprise. In 1809, Drury Lane Theatre had been es roye by fire, dashing to the ground the hopes and fortune of its Manager, Sheridan. Sheridan however ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 129 | Page: 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE HEAD OF ENSA

... 1905. He organised a concert party and played to troops at the Front in the 1914-18 war. He was knighted in 1935 and at Drury Lane, where, as illustrated by Topolski in our last week's issue, ENSA shoivs are 44 manufactured Sir Seymour occupies Sheridan1 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 180 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

AN ARTIST VIEWS AN OFFICIAL ENSA SHOW IN REHEARSAL

... dance producer, MISS WALTON, looking on. Meanwhile the photographer butts in for a pictorial record. DRAWINGS BY TOPOLSKI. DRURY LANE THEATRE, one of the oldest and most famous playhouses in the world, is, during wartime, catering for the entertainment of ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

GLADYS CALTHROP

... quaint old-world phraseology, a sockeroo. Some called it witless some called it tuneless some said it was not good enough for Drury Lane some said it was not good enough period. The one person who came out of the affair unscathed was Mrs. Calthrop. Whatever ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 933 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Then, in middle age, fate directed that he should become the guiding influence in a very different enterprise. In 1809, Drury Lane Theatre had been destroyed by fire, dashing to the ground the hopes and fortune of its Manager, Sheridan. Sheridan however ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 419 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

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Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 505 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Jamaican Cigars Manufactured by the B. J. B. Machado Tobacco Co. Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica. Imported solely by Lambert Butler of Drury Lane Branch of The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain Ireland), Ltd. ltbm A rolling stone gathers no thorns neither will ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 566 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Sketch-Book

... Yesterday. I was fortunate enough to sit next to the charming little lady who is courted by the cowboy every evening at Drury Lane. I noticed that she was wearing a suspiciously matronly garment. I 'm leaving the show at the end of July, she said. Don't ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1680 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Sketch-Book

... public protest and cause a scene. I loved Oklahoma when I saw it in New York, I liked it enormously on its first night at Drury Lane. I even enjoyed it mildly on the birthday occasion of La feune Fille, but during the heat wave I could not take the Aberdeen ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations