... 21 to January 6 seems to have been, in all countries, and in all ages. a great festival of the turning of the year At Drury Lane Theatre, in normal times. it is the custom on Twelfth Night to present to each member of the company a 'lice of the Baddeles• ...

... actress of considerable fame in the eighteenth century, who was born at Nantglyn. Denbighshire. She delighted audiences at Drury Lane in 1785. and Charles Lamb mentioned her in his Essays of Elia. Her real name was Dorothy Bland, but she assumed the name ...

... Henry V, at the Lane in 1938. Desmond McCormack, stage director, has worked on the Lane's stage staff. So to-day they kept Drury Lane's most enduring traditional ceremony. ford's new musical play, Magyar Melody, to be pre;ented by Didsbury ODeratic o cietv ...

... Buckley's belief hing of the course of The canin j, It was ftrsit P? Phat the Borough Budget will be A , !;ery has certainly Drury Lane 1106. An .. . result .1 ««. —ur.t Me/ SSsr^r.= ! e. ' SCHOLASTIC .VederU. ~ rome at a moment when there is con- e^ive ...

... company at Drury Lane, who must have been a kindly and generous man He left his cottage at Hampstead as a home for four old actors with a small sum of money for their pockets, built for their use a summer house of the timbers of old Drury Lane, and .bequeathed ...

... parochial efforts John Nickels has taken step far unprecedented in London Church activities He taken the Fortune Theatre Drury Lane for one night on February 6th to stage a Variety Show with a bill comparable to a Command Performance Stars have already ...

... Pastrycook Robert Baddeley, the Drury Lane actor, who was also a pastry cook, died in 1794 after a career during which he played servants' parts most admirably. He was the original Moses in The School for Scandal. He left property to found a home ...

... the Glyndebourne Children's Theatre. gathered to-day to cut and share a Baddeley Cake. Several of them had played at Drury Lane at one time or another. Frederick Bennett (Uncle Pumblechook in the play and manager of the company) ...

... theatres some of which used to have Twelfth Night celebrations until the war are doing nothing special to-night But at London’s Drury Lane they never miss Twelfth Night For under old bequest actors there are provided with a special Twelfth Night cake which is ...

... 1919. he was transferred to London. To mark his retirement colleagues entertained him to dinner at the Court Restaurant, Drury-lane, London, and presented him with wristlet watch and an autographed book on roses, a hobby he will now be able to devote full ...

... 21 to January 6 seems to have been, '.n all countries and tn all ages, a great festival of the turning of the year.” At Drury Lane Theatre, in normal tunes, it the custom on Twelfth Night present to each member of the company slice of the ‘‘Baddeley Cake ...

... evidence that the cycle, which was valued at £25. was left at about 12.30 p.m. on December 28th. outside Messrs. Faulkners, Drury Lane. Rugby, while visited the Red Lion, Five minutes later it had gone. Det.-Cons. Dowers said that as result of cnauiries saw ...