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at the Theatre: Carissima (Palace)

... the American export drive flourishes. These witty fellows do us much wrong. We may have thought that the American shows at Drury Lane and at the Coliseum introduced a new standard of efficiency in the production of mam moth musicals. We did not on that ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 709 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

THE SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF HOME AND HUMMEL

... is a master of anecdote, and here his hunting- ground has been rich. His stories of the actor Foote and his rivalry with Drury Lane s Garrick, the management s feud with Kemble, and Ellen Terry having her hair pulled by Sothern, are only some of the h ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1259 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Theatre In The Hay

... chronicler, Mr. W. Macqueen-Pope, it remains the 2 place it was when Fielding fought for freedom there, Cibber used it to defy Drury Lane, Foote X flouted the law, Liston raised laughs, Romeo Coates made an ass of himself, Buckstone and s Sothern popularized ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

At The Pictures: Songs of the Rope

... opportunities to young players who rise to them Joan Chandler in Rope James Donald and Harold Keel (late of Oklahoma at Drury Lane) in The Small Voice. To both films jointly I should like to make a special award for doing mercy to filmgoers by dispensing ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1182 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review