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... lovely varlets, and people may stroll at their leisure. Co vent Garden is laid out as a musical and dramatic centre, with Drury Lane Theatre incorporated in it and a new opera house, concert hall, and so forth- Other plans relate to a processional way from ...
... was of primary importance. By February 1930 he had completed a skeleton organisation. On Septembers, '939. Ensa moved into Drury Lane. It was the only possible place being [complete with rehearsal rooms, the huge stage, workshops, paint frames, wardrobe ...
... and a delightful singer her father was Tom Bur! the famous operatic and concert tenor, and her mother is Marie Burks the Drury Lane star. She played in Drinkwater's last play, A Man's Horn' at the Malvern Festival and, hy way of contrast, in Cochran's ...
... when he took the great gamble which made and marred his life. He raised the wind to buy out Garrick, and became manager of Drury Lane, and though for many years he derived a big income in thousands a year from the theatre, he never again cleared himself ...
... bequest of the eighteenth-century actor, Robert Baddeley, of £100, still provides cake and wine annually on Twelfth Night for Drury Lane actors. This year's cake, made by his descendant, Angela Baddeley, and her children, was cut at the Fair The Hobby Horse ...
... LAW COURTS The engine has cut out and the flying bomb is hurtling downwards at a steep angle. It fell in a side road off Drury Lane, blasting, among other buildings, the offices of the Daily Herald 3 AFTER THE EXPLOSION the cloud of black smoke mushrooms ...
... she shared prison with her husband who was jailed for debt till Garrick got her out and gave her a place in his company at Drury Lane. As Perdita in the Winter's Tale in 1779 she captivated the impetuous young heart of the Prince of Wales. When one looks ...
... 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 ...
... study and melodramatic thriller, the first half calling for one of our more melancholy coterie theatres and the second for Drury Lane restored to its pre-Ens? glories. It is odd, by the way, how fortune favours the man in form whether he is a champion golfer ...
... a lot of acting. His father was leading man for Sir Henry Irving, and young William made his first appearance in 1904 at Drury Lane, when he took the part of the starving boy in Irving's. production of Dante. I remember, says Bill, sitting in hotel rooms ...
... and pain of body; also, she is an actress of the first grade. Watching her in No Room at the Inn (Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane), noting the for ever-drooping cigarette, squirming at the coarse and blowsy brutality of each gesture, you loathe the creature ...
... Colonel de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, and in 1934-37 was seen with this company at Covent Garden, and in 1938 at Drury Lane, where he had made his first appearance in London in 1914 Photograph by Baron ...