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... honours at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Drurioianus I cake is endowed by relatives of the late Sir Augustus Harris I (manager and producer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1879- 1896), and is ceremonially cut at Drury Lane like the celebrated I Baddeley ...
... years of the two World Wars), the ancient ceremony of cutting the Baddeley Cake was held on January 6 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The ceremony derive; from the will of Robert Baddeley, the pastrycook-actor, who bequeathed a sum of £100 to provide a ...
... illusionist colleagues and competitors should not have the monopoly of magic in the theatre. In every theatre, whether it be Drury Lane or the Drill Hall, Darlington, when the house lights dim and the curtain rises, there should be magic-- or at least the ...
... the present building erected by E. M. Barry, R.A., two years later. Among famous actors who made Covent Garden a rival to Drury Lane were Peg Woffington, John, Charles and Fanny Kemble. It was only in 1847 that the house became unequi- vocally an opera-house ...
... death, then danced in Waltzes from Vienna in London until joining de Basil s company which, familiar at Covent Garden and Drury Lane before the war, has been touring in the U.S. and South America since 1938 Photographed by Baron ...
... pinch. It may be so. Neverthele ,3, some theatres have been winning 1 ig money and making new record lo g runs. Oklahoma at Drury Lane, ...
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... the part of Belle Barrow in the successful musical play Belinda Fair, is twenty-five years old. Her role of leader of the Drury Lane girls who entertain the troops an eighteenth-century E.N.S.A. gives her her first real West End opportunity. For nine years ...
... theatre. Son of Irving's leading actor, his stage experience was of an historic kind, for he appeared as a starving child at Drury Lane in 1903 and some years later played opposite Tree at His Majesty s. In World War One he served in the King's African Rifles ...
... Restoration and was to the fore when pantomime in something of the form we know it now and just as topsy-turvey was born at Drury Lane Theatre in 1702. And as soon as it became established, his was the star role. He made the harlequinade. Old-time pantomimes ...
... coffee already made and the kettle switched off though there will be more hot water if you want it. (L. G. Hawkins Co., Drury Lane, London, W.C.2.) FOG-LAMP There are times when the .Village postman with his oil- lamp close to the ground will keep going ...