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... the social climber whose husband was awarded £BOO damages against Kean in a celebrated trial. The actor who could fill Drury Lane with his impassioned genius emerges roughly and tempestuously from these pages, but hardly with either clear sympathy or ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST SATURDAY DECEMBER 23 1950 “I backed a winner!” Says Mr Price Managing Director of a firm of

... Preston North End 1888-9 Aston Villa 1896-7 6 In 1931 Noel Coward's Cavalcade presented by Sir Charles Cochran was put on Drury Lane It ran for 405 performances 7 New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode New Jersey Delaware Maryland New York Pennsylvania ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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intimate memoirs of IVOR NOVELLO

... story now appearing ONLY in the Sunday Chronicle. Order your copy! • Next Sunday you can read of Novello's first night at Drury Lane, his fight to save a West End success, and his back-stage memories of some of the great stage personalities of the day. ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL TUESDAY JANUARY 23 Germans May on Metals Ban MAKING FESTIVAL BRITAIN SOUVENIRS German ..

... Cicely Hamilton (first on any stage) Christopher Fry' “Venus Observed” and Jerrold's domestic melodrama ' (first performed Drury Lane in 1832) Douglas will produce and the company will include Hazel Hughes Christine Finn Rosalind Boxall Paul Daneman Peter ...

Published: Tuesday 23 January 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31 1951 2 Births Marriages Deaths and in Memoriam BIRTHS John —To ird I sen

... the past two years with the Donald Wolfit Company She danced before the Queen and Princess Margaret at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane two years ago Mum says goodbye ISS Annie Sherlock sllver-haired house mother at Erdington Children's Home spent more than ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1951 3 PUBLIC ADVISED TO FORGET SLOGAN Use Electricity off Peak Hours ..

... Robert Loraine in Cyrano de Bergerac as he was to produce Noel Coward's This Year of Grace at the Pavilion Cavalcade at Drury Lane The Miracle at the Lyceum or The Boy David at His Majesty’s CB” as he was called was always ready to present any kind of ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16 1951 EMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN BIRMINGHAM Labour Urged lo Accept the Need ..

... Hunt will memorial St Anne's conducted Canon Cribb morning MR MORGAN DAVIES (left) who plays a leading part in Carousel at Drury Lane Theatre London sings a song called Child of Mine to his son Richard after the christening ceremony in St Paul’s Church Covent ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Chemico HOUSEHOLD CLEANSER 0RMICO I No 18597 BIRMINGHAM TUESDAY MARCH 6 1951 Three-halfpence CLOTHES WON’T BE ..

... years he wrote a succession of smart box comedies and then in the Silver Jubilee year his first big musical This was at the Drury Lane and the play was Glamorous Nights” This success was consolidated with many more hits among them “Careless Rapture “Crest ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 1951
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL TUESDAY MARCH 6 1951 Births Marriages Deaths and in Memoriam dUlfl ft BIRTHS -N 5 1951 a

... and leave your inner craving unsatisfied That is because they put props above personality Novello never did that finest Drury Lane creations and some were very fine were built round human personality spectacle came second It was dangerous that he himself ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 1951 Death of Mr Ivor Novello and Actor As in the later edl-lons of

... Home Fires Burning 35 years ago set armies marching— Novello was an actor of no slight accomplishment He played Henry V at Drury Lane in 3938 and apoeared in Canada and the United States in a wide variety of plays In Liliom at the Duke of York's Theatre ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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`Glamorous Night'

... `Glamorous Night' In 1935 came G:amorous Night at Drury Lane. his first big musical. A worried world found escape In his songs as a stream of show hits flowed from his pen. Among them were Careless Rapture, Crest of the Wave, Perchance to Dream ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... into retirement wearing his blushing honours thick upon him His last parts were King Lear at the Haymarket and Macbeth at Drury Lane and at the public dinner held do him honour Dickens and Thackeray were the chief speakers It was on of the Theatre Royal ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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