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... into each other's hands with Cymr ic ease and volubility. As his English wife (and proud of it) Miss Gladys Henson brings Drury Lane to Tan-y-Maes without losing a prejudice or a Cockney inflection on the way. Miss Nuna Davey, as the bc-bloomered champion ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 901 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: The Glass Slipper (St. James's); Peter Pan (Scala)

... talked a lot of nonsense on this subject in the past. How often have we complained of the atrocious treatment meted out by Drury Lane and the Lyceum to the fairy stories The ideal panto mime, wrote William Archer, should charm the senses, stimulate the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre

... favourite local. Some were certain that the last distillation of the authentic spirit of panto mime was to be caught only at Drury Lane; others discovered superior charm in the characteristic grandeur of Covent Garden; still more plumped for the rollicking ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 764 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

CHILDHOOD IN TOOTING

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1735 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books

... by an official of ENSA. Recording its three centuries of history, s Mr. W. J. Macqueen Pope writes in Theatre (j Royal Drury Lane (W. H. Allen, 17s. 6d.): S Orange girls, tragedians, comedians, buffoons, clowns, swindlers and men of S high repute immortal ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1893 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

BACK-STAGE WITH EISENHOWER: Captain Harry Butcher's Diary Records the Tact and Genius for Leadership of the ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1395 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

WALTER HAMMOND TELLS HIS STORY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

In brief--: THE TATLER THEATRE GUIDE; Straight Plays

... leading lights of this colourful show. BACKSTAGE with 9 After the longest closure in the history of the Lpresent house, Drury Lane Theatre reopens 011 December 19, with the Noel Coward operetta Pacific I860, a show which, I gather, will reveal, among ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1202 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: ...Christmas Afterglow

... season. The professional trustees of Christmas have done a stout job of work. Elders may lament the departed glories of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Lyceum. They are unlikely to depress the youngster who is offered his choice of what is going. The ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 833 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE

... A spectacular revue on skates. FIFTY-FIFTY (Strand). Harry Green in a hilarious farce. PACIFIC x86o (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Mary Martin in Noel Coward's post-war offering. NOW BARABBAS (Vaudeville). The anatomy of prison life laid bare. SWEETHEART ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1498 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Kago and Xebec-- the last two a Jap litter and Adriatic boat. It all began with mother's brougham, which took her to the Drury Lane panto, her first ball, and Queen Victoria's drawing-room. After that she never looked back except to glimpse exotic views ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1461 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Bless The Bride (Adelphi) Oklahoma! (Drury Lane)

... (bfr TfuL ly 0-* Bless The Bride (Adelphi) Oklahoma! (Drury Lane) BIG BEN loosed a swarm of bees that had long buzzed in Sir Alan Herbert's bonnet. There were redundant nose-pokers, kill joys who would deny the Briton his liquor, legislators thin-blooded ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 861 | Page: 7 | Tags: Review