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-THE UNLUCKY HORSE

... Baddeley, pastry cook write,: comedian, at Drury Lane Theatre, London. The bequest provides a cake to be cut by His Majesty's Company of Comedians, which in these times resolves into the company playing at Drury Lane when the date comes around. Baddeley ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1948
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 199 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

QUEEN AT MATINEE

... Art, showed the Queen how well they had learned their lessons when she attended an all-star matinee by former students at Drury Lane to-day. The Queen was accompanied by Princess Margaret. and their Appearance in the Royal box was greeted with applause ...

Published: Tuesday 26 October 1948
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CAKE AND POP

... friend of the school. Another arrived on Saturday and was divided into 40 pieces after the manner of the Baddeley Cake at Drury Lane. and was duly devoured in the dressing room. It was washed down with the help of four dozen bottles of pop, the ldyt ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1948
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The twelve headless

... our first pantomime. made more than a mere pretence That endured at Lincoln's Inn of catering for children. Theatre, at Drury Lane, and at The one thing common to the Covent Garden (which Rich built pantomimes of the last 200 years as a pantomime house) ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1948
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Greece Buys 40,000 Rifles From Britain

... Vienna. and his reputation as a tenor became international. DRURY LAME HIT His flrikt appearance on the Lopion stage was at Drury Lane in 19M, in The Land of Smiles. Nearly as great a success was his performance of Franz Schubert in the Aldwyc_h production ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1948
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 584 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THEATRE THE BUTCHER'S KNIFE

... entertainment world and the possessor of a memory of which he has made good use in many published reminiscences. He saw every Drury Lane show from 1885, when his father took Lim, aged six, to the pantomime: and every Adelphi show from 1885 to the late thirties ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1948
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 671 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR. MANCHESTER'S DIARY

... Squadron, hovering in the middle distance. They'll come in low, dipping wings. Memories B ACKP stage talk last night at Drury Lane, where Oklahoma is almost a permanence, was about its first night—in Manchester exactly a year ago this week. Enter ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1948
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 596 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRINCESS SEES NEW SECRET CAR DESIGN

... Portman Square. There he entertained very lavishly. When the money gave out he sat down and wrote The Rivals.. Produced at Drury Lane in 1775, it was a tremendous success. Two . years later The School for Scandal set the seal on the dramatist's fame ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1948
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1454 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PEP PILLS QUERY

... a week on what is the first musical comedy of its type to be presented in Clitheror. Wild Violets was first produced at Drury Lane in 1937. and followed the enormously successful White Horse Inn, the music being by the same composer. Robert Stolz. ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1948
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AUCTION MART

... the occasion of Charles the Second's restoration. their Visit to a special performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Drury Lane Theatre, and their Old Age Pensioners To Appear In Pageant Final Programme Arranged t RRANGE3IENTS for Clithereroe's Charter ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1948
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 729 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

'WILD VIOLETS' BRILLIANT FINALE

... encouraged the Society to embark on WIM Violets. This was an ambitious undertaking because Clitheroe was not entirely like Drury Lane and did not possess a revolving stage. reserved for a member of the chorus. who was brought to the front of the stage by ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1948
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 878 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCENES FROM CLITHEROE'S ROMANTIC STORY

... England on his birthday. In London they are invited by Samuel Pepys. the famous diarist, to a reception at the Theatre Royal. Drury Lane. where there is to be a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. There was the glitter of a great State occasion in ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1948
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1106 | Page: 3 | Tags: none