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The Theatre: The Light of Heart (Apollo)

... small part, in which he gave such an admirable per formance that Charles B. Cochran decided to present him as King Lear at Drury Lane in a John Gielgud production. (Why no mention of Motley or Roger Furze Mean, I call it.) The part was, of course, a long ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 11 | Tags: Cartoons 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1808 | Page: 14, 16 | Tags: Cartoons  Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1482 | Page: 14, 16 | Tags: Cartoons  Illustrations 

Standing By ...: One Thing and Another

... grinned and produced an entire manuscript play of Shakespeare's from his sleeve called Vortigern, which had one night's run at Drury Lane and received the bird. Other Shakespeare forgers of the period were Jordan, a Stratford citizen who discovered that charming ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1392 | Page: 14, 15 | Tags: Cartoons 

Other

... Your Gun (Coliseum). Dolores Gray and Bill Johnson in another tough and melodious back woods comedy from America. Oklahoma (Drury Lane). This American musical play has everything. It is tuneful, decorative. Moves with typical Transatlantic speed and smooth ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 558 | Page: 6 | Tags: Cartoons  Other 

Anthony Cookman on--Pantomime

... eloquent preferences. Some were assured that the last distillation of the basic spirit of pantomime 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 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 6, 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Photographs 

Other

... who shine so brightly. They are Dolores Gray, who finds that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, and dashing Bill Johnson. DRURY LANE Oklahoma This outstand ing U.S. success is tuneful, decorative and moves with transatlantic speed and smoothness. DUKE OF ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 907 | Page: 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Other