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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 

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 ...

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 

At The Pictures: Old and New

... Coward's job was to bethink him of Drury Lane Theatre, the old autumn melo drama, Rose Marie, The Land of Smiles, and find a successor in that line, for if it was not in that line there could be no hope of filling Drury Lane, which holds 2,600 people, nine ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1230 | Page: 8 | 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 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... Abel Smith, Sir Melville and Lady Ward, Major Tommy McDougal and Sir Geoffrey Church. The long-awaited [Oklahoma opened at Drury Lane with tremendous eclat. At the end the audience applauded so much that the cast gave three encores of the song Oklahoma, ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2173 | Page: 12, 13 | 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 

OKLAHOMA

... COMEDY, AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE Betty Jane Watson as Laurey I singing Every New Day, one of the song-hits. Oklahoma is in its I fifth year on Broadway, and on its opening night at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, J it received such a reception ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD

... rtAROLD KEEL, for Wins the dy namic life and soul of Oklahoma 44 Oh, what a beautiful mornm*, sung by Harold Keel as Curly at Drury Lane just makes you feel it is a beautiful morning. To achieve this in to-day's England is immense; means that the singer has ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

FOR DUEL IN THE SUN--PAVEMENT ART PUBLICITY

... didn't pay. Harry Waye began his life in pantomime and music hall has played the cat and the page- hoy in 44 Humpty-Dumpty at Drury Lane. But his hobby was painting and failing other occupation, he exercises his art by the British Museum. New York used a lighted ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 236 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs