... Drury Lane Anniversary SIR, I read in your issue of the 11th inst. a leading article en titled: The poor show relative to the approaching three hundredth birthday of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It may interest you to know that I organised a Royal ...

... associated with the Theatre Royal Drury Lane is Drury Lane Theatrical Fund. The information should read: Master: Nick Bromley, secretary: Jennie Walton, Registered Charity No. 209046 Address as hplow Jennie Walton Drury Lane Theatrical Fund Marlborough House ...

... about Nellie Stewart (1858-1931) the Australian actress who play ed at Drury Lane in The Forty Thieves in 1899. W. Macqueen Pope said she was the best prin cipal boy in Drury Lane ever had. She was related to Mary Jane Yates, who appeared with Garrick ...

... upper circle seat at Drury Lane for a musical. You would get in at Drury Lane for Pirates for £3. To see Joseph at York the cost was £3.20. But the strange thing is that both Darlington and York are subsidised while Drury Lane is not. Something has ...

... heading On the Air. Radio. In that a reference is made to The Whip as an example ol early Drury Lane melodrama. The Whip was produced at Theatre Royal. Drury Lane, by Arthur Collins on September 9, ...

... writing on 'O'- level history project entitled The Theatre Royal Drury Lane 1663-1982. I would be grateful if anybody with any photographs of the interior or any theatre programmes for Drury Lane would contact me so I could either pur chase them or photocopy ...

... intcretini article on Sir Frank Benson, your corre spondent Frances Collinewood states that he was knighted by Kin* George V in Drury Lane Theatre on May 2, 1916. with a property sword rhat is a mis take His Majesty was not wearing either uniform or a sword and ...

... seen in London since Sindbad at Drury Lane in 1907, I would be very interested to know if anyone is still alive that either appeared in the original show or who remembers seeing it. Our Sinbad stars Ken Dodd, in Drury Lane the stars were Walter Passmore ...

... Unforgettable Fair Lady SIR, April 30 1958 who will forget that sunny evening just 25 years ago when London, and Drury Lane, saw the opening of what was to be the Lane's longest running and record breaking musial, My Fair Lady. It stayed for over f ...

... scheme in which the Coliseum, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the Royal Ballet and the En glish National Opera as well as the Lyceum, would all play a part. I have for a long time considered that Drury Lane is far better suited as a home for the English ...

... Hoare May I write a few words in appreciation of George Hoare? Many years ago now, I wished to write about die Theatre Royal Drury Lane, a building I had previously lived almost next door to for a long time and loved, but whose history I knew only from ...

... moved on to the subject of pan tomime. She told me that as a young girl she was taken by her parents to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, to witness those fondly remembered spectacular pantos. I came to the conclusion that if she had been taken to see these ...