... how many, alas! of these outlying theatres have become cinemas, or have vanished altogether were deservedly famous. But Drury Lane at Christmas-time was panto- mimically the centre of the universe and, so far as the West End was con cerned, reigned in ...

... Edwardes, the producer for as a play this never did amount to much, and it struck me as amounting to even less than it did at Drury Lane some sixteen years ago. The music is tuneful enough, but is spoiled by being plugged to a tedious degree. How many times ...

... brought out, and that is the main thing, though I missed the loyely stage-pictures of previous productions at His Majesty's, Drury Lane, etc., with Mendelssohn's music played by a large orchestra the Westminster season has to be run on economical lines in ...

... (Prince of Wales). This is a story of the land of date-palms. It struck me that palms can date. London first saw this at Drury Lane sixteen years ago, when, except in the musical sense, it struck no new note. The present revival is lavishly presented and ...

... practically reared in Drury Lane. There have been four Drury Lane Theatres the theatre of Killigrew and the Restoration, the Drury Lane of Garrick, of Sheridan and Siddons, the Drury Lane of Augustus Harris and Arthur Collins, and the Drury ...

... paint from a statue of Shakespeare which, until he noticed it, had lain neglected in a lumber-room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Being cleaned of many coats of paint, it is now revealed that the statue is of lead, and it has been identified as the ...

... MASTERPIECE, BUT IT IS A FIND This statue of Shakespeare, which has lain neglected in a lumber room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was recently rediscovered by Mr Fred Sundin, an upholsterer and french polisher. After it had been cleaned of its many ...

... gambler a lover of extravagant display and generous to a fault, invariably over-spending the annual income of 1 0,000 which Drury Lane brought him. Regularly every decade somebody writes a new biography of this extraordinary man. The latest of these is by ...

... art as Maupassant and Chekhov A GEM OF THE BOOKBINDER'S ART This copy of W. Macqueen-Pope's history of The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was presented to Princess Elizabeth as a wedding gift by the directors of the theatre. The binding is in blue Persian ...

... is a master of anecdote, and here his hunting- ground has been rich. His stories of the actor Foote and his rivalry with Drury Lane s Garrick, the management s feud with Kemble, and Ellen Terry having her hair pulled by Sothern, are only some of the h ...