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The LONDON STAGE

... how many, alas! of these outlying theatres have become cinemas, or have vanished altogether were deservedly famous. But Drury Lane at Christmas-time was panto- mimically the centre of the universe and, so far as the West End was con cerned, reigned in ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 756 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

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... actor. i In one of these MacDonald-Eddy succes®; Rose Marie, 1 saw another future star arise. 4 this film version of the Drury Lane hit, M MacDonald had a ne’er-do-well brother wh? Nelson Eddy had to arrest. oo The part, a small one, was made outstand ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1941
Newspaper: Picturegoer
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1739 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CHIT CHAT

... earlier raids the , Lane , the Saville , the Queen ' s , and the Strand were , not seriously , parts of the > auditorium of Drury Lane most . Bombs on B . B . C . That entertainment concern , the B . B . C , had premises bombed in London elsewhere during ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1941
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3385 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SERVING FOR FREEDOM

... Beckenham. and later at Beckenham 1 1 Technical Institute. I He was formerly employed at the Victoria House Printing Co., Ltd. Drury-lane. L o n - don . as an apprentice to a compositor and rad served five ! years. lie is a keen lover of music and is an accomplished ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 443 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Crop Where Saxons You've Always Wanted to Do HAPPY FANNY . OF DRURY Were Last This with a Siphon •

... H. G. Wilson, of tains carbondioxide, which promoted to her place. When the Leicestershire Home is a blanketing gas. and Drury Lane became the head- Guard, told the News neutralises the gas in the quarters of ENSA, she just Chronicle yesterday that incendiary ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1941
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 393 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Too Much Office

... Too Much Office FORTUNATELY even war has its pleasant side, and we'll go along and have a look at it. We go first to Drury Lane. Here Mr. Basil Dean. head of E.N.S.A.. receives us, and re- ...

Published: Sunday 26 January 1941
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 37 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lent Costumes

... experienced E.N.S.A. producers to coach them. Having decided what show to do. they borrow costumes from the vast wardrobes of Drury Lane. ...

Published: Sunday 26 January 1941
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Thomas Mitehell. John lan Hunter and Wilfrid

... Edna Ferber once described him as a pixy-looking little man, which is very much how he impressed me when I met him at Drury Lane. Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly and Peggy Moran sing the latest Kern tunes in One Night in the Tropics. ROBERT DONAT'S return ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1941
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 764 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--THE LUPINOS, for being the Royal Family of Greasepaint and in four hundred years ..

... stars. LUPINOS AND LANES AND BRITANNIA HOXTON TRADITION. Traditional clown JOSEPH GRIMALDI, Drury Lane, 1795. Tradition carried on GEORGE LUPINO as a clown, Drury Lane, 1912. Seventeenth-century French Punchinello, which, as a puppet show, was brought to England ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 642 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs