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__ . .. 1 TURNING POINT IN GERMANY TO-DAY HONOURS FOR R.A.F. SHELL-SHOCK 11 , BY EASTER '-A NEUTRAL VIEW

... be re- He was knighted by King George V use in 1914. when it was believed that duced from 48 to 44 a week from yester ,at Drury-lane Theatre in 1916, after the great bulk of nervous disorders day under the provisions the Young A strong protest against farmhouse ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

New Books for the New Year

... the list of plays in which Sir Henry Irving appeared, between 1871 and 1903, at the Lyceum Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as marked by Her Majesty Queen Mary to indicate which were the plays she witnessed. In this connexion, it is interesting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

SIR FRANK BENSON DEAD Famous Exponent of Shakespeare j

... but it was the year in which Benson was knighted . He received the accolade > . from King George V , in the Royal box F at Drury Lane , still in the blood-stained ^ robes of Julius Caesar . When , next j morning , he returned to Stratford , he ; was pulled ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2721 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Death of Sir Frank Benson SIR FRANK BENSON, the actormanager, died yesterday at his home in Holland Road, West ..

... 1882 and his last recorded appearance was almost exactly fifty years later. „ He was knighted by King George the Fifth at Drury Lane Theatre 1916. after the Shakespearean tercentenary performance. , , He married in his leading lady. Gertrude Constance Samwell ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Task And Tradition

... Cambridge; when he received the Croix de Guerre on his sixtieth birthday; and when he was knighted by King George V. at Drury Lane. While at Oxford, where he went from Winchester, he was a prominent member of the University Dramatic Club. His first stage ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1888 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR F. BENSON DEAD

... first appearance was under Henry Irving's management at the Lyceum, London, in 1882. He was knighted by King George V. at Drury Lane Theatre in 1916 after the Shakespeare tercentenary performance. In 1933 he was given Civil List pension of £100 year 'in ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

To-day in The Bal Tabarin

... an English journalist who in turn introduced him to Arthur Collins, who gave him a break by putting him into panto at Drury Lane. That was Potts's introduction to fame and fortune. Perhaps you will be more interested in the story of Potts and the Bal ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3285 | Page: 89 | Tags: Photographs 

AMAZING PRAYER BY GOEBBELS

... services were recognised by the knighthood conferred upon him at the Shakespeare tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar at Drury Lane, London, in 1916. In his stage costume he received the accolade with a property sword in the Royal box, amid a scene of ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 725 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ACCOLADE IN STAGE COSTUME

... services were recognised by the knighthood conferred upon him at tilt. Shakespeare tercentenary performance of Julius Car at Drury lane in 1916. In his stage costume he received the accolade with a property sword in the Royal box, amid a scene of remarkable ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SIR FRANK BENSON, ACTOR

... in September, 1882. and his last recorded appearance was almost exactly years later. He was knighted by King George V. at Drury Lane Theatre after the Shakespeare tercentenary performance. In 1933 he was given a Civil List pension of £lOO a year in recognition ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 689 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mil 9 DEATH OF SIR FRANK BENSON

... Gariick and George Kcate 1769. Knighthood was conferred upon him by Kng George V. with a prop-rty sword In the ante-roon of Drury Lane Theatre on the crcas.on of the three hundredth anniversary Shakespeare's death. Sir Frank Benson Trollus and Cressidain ...

STRATFORD FESTIVAL

... services were recognized by the knighthood conferred upon him at the Shakespearian tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar at Drury Lane in 1916. In his stage costume he received the accolade with property sword in the Royal Box. From 1886, for 30 years, he ...