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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: 4, 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

SHE MADE THE STARS SHINE

... MADE THE STARS SHINE By ** Daily Herald”? Theatre Correspondent Iss MARION FIELD, for a many years wardrobe mistress at Drury Lane Theatre, has been killed in an air raid. Known to dozens of stars and hun- dreds of chorus-girls as “ Happy she ruled with ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1941
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 3 | 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