... study and melodramatic thriller, the first half calling for one of our more melancholy coterie theatres and the second for Drury Lane restored to its pre-Ens? glories. It is odd, by the way, how fortune favours the man in form whether he is a champion golfer ...

... by an official of ENSA. Recording its three centuries of history, s Mr. W. J. Macqueen Pope writes in Theatre (j Royal Drury Lane (W. H. Allen, 17s. 6d.): S Orange girls, tragedians, comedians, buffoons, clowns, swindlers and men of S high repute immortal ...

... a lot of acting. His father was leading man for Sir Henry Irving, and young William made his first appearance in 1904 at Drury Lane, when he took the part of the starving boy in Irving's. production of Dante. I remember, says Bill, sitting in hotel rooms ...

... and pain of body; also, she is an actress of the first grade. Watching her in No Room at the Inn (Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane), noting the for ever-drooping cigarette, squirming at the coarse and blowsy brutality of each gesture, you loathe the creature ...

... Colonel de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, and in 1934-37 was seen with this company at Covent Garden, and in 1938 at Drury Lane, where he had made his first appearance in London in 1914 Photograph by Baron ...

... nights with Perchance to Dream. Sir A. P. Herbert has followed suit with Big Ben. Noel Coward is also going to serve it up at Drury Lane. Some experts think that the drop in the quality of Hollywood films is partly responsible for the popularity of the live ...

... new produc tion by the Sadler's Wells Ballet attempts to disguise its monumental platitudes bv a snectaclo m#*. suited to Drury Lane than to Covent Garden. Miss Fonteyn and Mr. Rassinc can take good care of the dancing, and Mr. Helpmann's buffoonery pleases ...

... AT THE INN. Freda Jackson as a sadistic woman in charge of evacuees. Powerful acting and a powerful play. Winter Garden, Drury Lane, W.C.2. 7; Weds., Sats., 2.30. CLUTTERBUCK. Ronald Ward and Naunton Wayne as a couple of husbands and Patricia Burke and ...

... was also a frequent star of panto mime at Drury Lane (On left) A feature of pantomime time at Drury Lane. The cutting of the Bad- deley Cake on Twelfth Night. This cake is provided by a legacy left to Drury Lane Theatre by Robert Baddeley, a pastry cook ...

... Herbert, Jerome Kern. Oh, yes I could go on, and on, and on. Show Boat, of course, will always be one of my happiest memories Drury Lane with all its famous background, that wonderful cast that famous droll Herman Finck, always a smile from him in the pit and ...

... MARTIN. Mary Martin is to play the lead in the new Noel Coward musical 44 Pacific 1860, due to open at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on December 19. The music is melodic no jazz rather in the 44 Bitter Sweet tradition and Miss Martin plays the part of ...

... MARY MARTIN, OF PACIFIC-- 1860 AN AMERICAN STAR AT DRUM LANE MARY MARTIN, who is starring in Noel Coward's Pacific 1860, at Drury Lane, rose to fame by singing the famous My Heart Belongs to Daddy in a Broadway musical comedy. She is regarded by American ...