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... Pacific 1860 (Drury Lane) DRURY LANE reopens not with a cavalcade but with a charade, a pretty, prattling tuneful charade. Mr. Noel Coward always knows what he is after, and this time it is a romantic escape to as far as possible from the present in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Douglas Byng

... Skegness the holidays! Fred Clements Concert Party designing women's clothes, comic songs the Theatre Royal, Notting ham, Drury Lane Pantomime (imagination rampant, very romantic) Gertie Millar, Lily Elsie how lovely and what glamour. Boarding school at ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1679 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

QUIZZES

... theatre fire were 23 flnmen burnt to death? 4. What actress had been a bar maid? REPLIES TO QUIZZES (See Page 8) 1. Goodman, a Drury Lane actor in 1690. He augmented a meagre salary by taking to the road. 2. Henry Fielding, who had his own booth at Bartholomew ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1947
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE PAINT AND THE POWDER

... to the stage during tha last 20 years or so than Mr. Noel Coward, and since the reopening of the historic Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, after years of wartime closure, was in itself an historic occasion, a new play by Mr. Coward to mark the event naturally ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1947
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1513 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

PLAYS WITH A PURPOSE

... PACIFIC iB6O AT DRURY LANE : ELENA SALVADOR (MARY MARTIN) AND KERRY STIRLING (GRAHAM PAYN) KISS IN THE CENTRE OF MRS. STIRLING’S BALLROOM. Noe! Coward’s musical romance, Pacific 1860,” has been chosen to reopen the famous Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, after its ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 763 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

COUNTY TIMES AND GAZETTE SATURDAY JANUARY 4 1947 H'I WITHTHI ESTABLISHED 1829 l' DISTRICT BANK LIMITED Member ..

... 730 to 830 well deserved win I Ambulance Scorers were Brooks (4) Cassey requested perform first-(3) and Hodge aid duty at Drury-lane London Hippodrome cinemas and football grounds as per duty sheet Annual general meeting of the ambulance division on Tuesday ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 7360 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MARGARET COTTAGE

... was trying to coax three beers out 01 a r.etel porter for himself. B C HUM= (Flotsam) and Charles Jack' Prentice. of Drury Lane musical tame He was making headway when Flotsam. in the background. got impatient and . pushed to the front. ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR SHORTAGES

... was trying to coax three beers out of a hotel porter for himself. B C Hilliam (Flotsam) and Charles Jock Prentice. of Drury Lane musical lame. He was making headway when Flotsam. in the background. got impatient and ,Pushed to the front ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MN Latto•JA LACsal.) JAlluali I After the Belton BRINGING HOME Crp-tie disaster 'Magic eye, THE BACON COSTS 50 ..

... , 11111 Two Twelfth Night cakes cut in London theatres last night for the first time sines the war—the Baddeley Cake at Drury Lane and the Old Vie Cake at Sadler's Wells. Cutting the latter Is Ralph Richardson, the new aetor-knight. The ceremony followed ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1947
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 592 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Theatre: ...Christmas Afterglow

... season. The professional trustees of Christmas have done a stout job of work. Elders may lament the departed glories of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Lyceum. They are unlikely to depress the youngster who is offered his choice of what is going. The ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 833 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review