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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 

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 

STAGE CAMEOS

... new produc tion by the Sadler's Wells Ballet attempts to disguise its monumental platitudes bv a snectaclo m#*. suited to Drury Lane than to Covent Garden. Miss Fonteyn and Mr. Rassinc can take good care of the dancing, and Mr. Helpmann's buffoonery pleases ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1065 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

NOEL COWARD'S NEW LEAD--MARY MARTIN

... MARTIN. Mary Martin is to play the lead in the new Noel Coward musical 44 Pacific 1860, due to open at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on December 19. The music is melodic no jazz rather in the 44 Bitter Sweet tradition and Miss Martin plays the part of ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHRISTMAS THRILL: The Fantasy-World of Pantomime

... and from the orange-eating gallery a shower of peel and pips would constantly descend on the heads of those below. Even at Drury Lane the overture was usually drowned by extempore choruses from pit and gallery. When the performance finally began, it was ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2255 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STAGE

... he may be sure that Messrs. Maschwitz and Fraser are just about to turn the tables on him. An Uncertain Noel Coward At Drury Lane there are fewer surprises. Pacific i860 never seems quite to have decided whether to be a quiet little atmospheric study ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SCREEN

... (Stoll). A spectacular revue on skates. FIFTY-FIFTY (Strand). Harry Green in a hilarious Jarce. PACIFIC i860 (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Mary Martin in Noel Coward's post-war offering. SWEETHEART MINE (Victoria Palace). Lupino Lane in a Cockney musical. WORM'S ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1179 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SCREEN

... (Stoll). A spectacular revue on skates. FIFTY-FIFTY (Strand). Harry Green in a hilarious farce. ACIFIC i860 (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). M .ry Martin in Noel Coward's post-war offering. SWEETHEART MINE (Victoria Palace). Lupino Lane in a Cockney musical. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1383 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

COMPOSED FOR MARY MARTIN: PACIFIC 1860

... COMPOSED FOR MARY MARTIN PACIFIC 1860. 44 Pacific 1860 has brought to Drury Lane Noel Coward's version of a South Sea island romance. Beautifully dressed, with pleasantly flowing music including a catchy song or two, and effervescent decor by G. E. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYS IN BRIEF

... junction of Queer atid Sinister Streets. Edward Percy's thriller more than 800 performances. PACIFIC i860 (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Noel Coward discovers an island, writes an operetta around it, and brings Mary Martin to London. THE WHITE STEED (Whitehall) ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 609 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD

... world. IVOR NOVELLO, for being the only person ever known to be author, composer, and actor in four successive successes at Drury Lane. Unique in theatre history, Ivor Novello's four successful productions which he has written, composed, and acted in are ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

OKLAHOMA!

... OKLAHOMA! The Story Behind the Drury Lane Show which has been running in New York since 1943. OKLAHOMA!, now a smash-hit at Drury Lane, has been news in America for years. The Theatre Guild presented it on March 31, 1943, at the St. James's in New ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs