... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... held such a gay raffish company still .more incredible that the Maypole then stood permanently opposite Somerset House, and Drury Lane was full of trulls and mopsies all a-blowing and a-brawling. Tonic That high tension Restoration gaiety is mostly illusion ...

... girl's working clothes. She must feel naked without them, and you 'd think ENSA could have done something about it. From Drury Lane, ENSA's H.Q., to the premises of Elder and Fyffe, Britain's lead ing banana-importers, in Bow Street is only nve minutes ...

... then plunging like a rocket into the deep. The Argyll- 3 shire monster may of course, judging by description, be a retired Drury Lane 1 principal boy. If the fur is mink or |t sables, this is obvious. They often sit on rocks and lure mariners, but not very ...

... happen in Manchester do that lovely city a fearful wrong. There was a rapier- duel by candle-light there in 1760, just like Drury Lane. We came upon it by pure accident while looking up the files of The Gentleman's Magazine, hoping (as ever) to discover what ...

... heard of the celebrated eighteenth-century actor and play wright, Charles Macklin Macklin gave his farewell performance at Drury Lane at the age of ninety- nine, wrote a five-act comedy at 101, and died at 107 as recorded on his memorial tablet in St. Paul's ...

... her precious windows is another matter. Probably not. She knew all about fiddlers not to speak of woodwind from the old Drury Lane days. Fie Fie The amorous rogues We hope we 're not too strait-laced about all these Bohemians art and music boys, poets ...

... Myself at the Pictures Give Warners Their Due By James Agate THE other morning in the dilapidated barracks which used to be Drury Lane Theatre I looked in at a rehearsal of a show intended by E.N.S.A. for Burma. An admirable little show, with two first-rate ...