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... Hare, and Dion Btfucicauit. During the 25 yean that followed, rarely going on tour, I played in farce, comedy, tragedy, two Drury Lane dramas, pantomime, musical comedy, and at one time had performed m every West End theatre, many of them now defunct. A memorable ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1950
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 13 | Tags: letter 

THE WHIP

... 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, ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 1952
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

CORRESPONDENCE: Is Panto on Decline?

... construction of the stories, intelligent humour and witty dialogue appealing to both grown-ups and children, particularly so at Drury Lane, the Surrey, the Britannia, and Grand, Islington. Moreover, authors such as Arthur Slurgess, Geoffrey Thorn. Charles Wilmott ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 13 | Tags: letter 

Correspondence: Regular Patrons

... patrons stamped their feet, whistled and j shouted Kor-er! Kor-erl and demanded an encore. Herbert Campbell, already a Drury Lane star in the early eighties, never disdained to appear at the Opera. Likewise Marie Lloyd, although the latter, it is true ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 4 | Tags: letter 

PANTOMIME PICTURE

... probably who was a member of John Sledman's boys' choir, of Berne rs Street, London, who was photographed in the paint room of Drury Lane during the panto of Babes in the Wood in the year 1887 and 1888 7 I: is a picture of several of his boys who took part in ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 15 | Tags: letter 

SIR FRANK BENSON

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1958
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 15 | Tags: letter 

CORRESPONDENCE: INDUSTRIAL PATRONAGE

... first time that Whitbread* have done something of the utmost value to art. It was Samuel Whitbread. who, when Theatre Royal. Drury Lane, was burned down in 1809. stepped into the financial breach and it seemed a hope less breach caused by the completely inept ...

Published: Thursday 04 December 1958
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 17 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: PROVINCIAL THEATRES

... redecoration for the Royal Scottish Variety Performance in 1958, is superior to any London theatre with the exception of Drury Lane. Yours faithfully John Wright. 122. Brackenbrae Avenue, Bishopbriggs. To the Editor 0/ The Stage ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 18 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: OKLAHOMA!

... state of maturity they sometimes now reach. But it must not be forgotten that since 1946, when it was originally produced at Drury Lane, musicals have advanced even further. The ballet forms of West Side Story and the operatic innovations of The Most Happy ...

Published: Thursday 20 October 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 16 | Tags: letter 

Jerome Whyte could not say 'No'

... Derek Rae's letter in your last issue, the cost of reproducing the gay posters of Oklahoma! which adorned the exterior of Drury Lane when the show was done there, is now up about 150 percent. This I told Mr. Jerome Whytc when he approached this company ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Old Musicals

... compelled to write to you in defence of the old musicals. I can just remember seeing Harry Wclorwnan in The Desert Song at Drury Lane when I was five years old, arid the show made such a vivid impression on me that today I thank heaven for John Hanson His ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Television Today: LETTERS - The Rebel--Some Replies

... QIR.--Who on earth is the author of that incoherent letter printed in your issue of 1st February! The Equity meeting at Drury Lane on 21 si January was the most representative and at the same time the most democratic which has ever been held in the history ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter