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Thanks for These Memories

... homeward call. Sometimes memories are what you dream when you are awake. Let me dream a few minutes, back into the gallery at Drury Lane. It is Boxing Night and Jimmy Glover had just swung round to face the audience and play God Save the King. Yes, they played ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... things foiled wicked young Lord Mohun and his rakehelly young friend Captain Richard Hill that December night of 1691 near Drury Lane stage-door (1) his Lordship and the Captain were excessively drunk (2)' Mrs. Brace- girdle's Mamma, who clung to her daughter's ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1671 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... held such a gay raffish company still .more incredible that the Maypole then stood permanently opposite Somerset House, and Drury Lane was full of trulls and mopsies all a-blowing and a-brawling. Tonic That high tension Restoration gaiety is mostly illusion ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1738 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

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: 16 | Tags: Illustrations