... Opera and Ballet Season. 1949. nighlly at 7. M.. r 2.30. CRITERION r j Joy. June 1. 1948, 8 Ji. Mr i .h and Sat.. 2 30. DRURY LANE.-- Oklahoma. April 30. 1947. 7, Mai.. Wed and Sal.. 2.30. DUCHESS. The Philadelphia Story. December 1. 1M>, 7.30: Mats. ...

... The Bard has long been revered in Hungary, and the National Theatre, whose plush-and-gilt interior is liitle smaller than Drury Lane, has specialised in new Shakespeare pro duction. Tamas Major, a famous student and actor of Shakespeare, has been in charge ...

... DRURY LANE CAROUSEL On June 7, Prince Littler presented here the musical play as originally produced by the Theatre Guild in the U.S.A. (based on Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer). music by Richard Rodger's book and lyrics ...

... Bernand Wayne, the greater proportion of the first part of the programme is concerned with a melodrama allegedly very late of Drury Lane, written by Thomas Morton and entitled Speed the Plough. Skilfully as this is pre* sented by the Unity company, it serves ...

... AT DRURY LANE VANBRUGH MATINEE At the Irene Vanbrugh Memorial Matinee, Yesterday and To-day, at Drury Lane on Monday, £5,571 was raised towards the rebuilding fund of the Vanbrugh Theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The Queen, Princess Elizabeth ...

... in vogue in those days, and was actually accepted by Kean. only his departure for America prevent ing its being played at Drury Lane. Its presentation now can only be justified by curiosity and for the sake of its occasional passages ol poetic beauty. It ...

... Oklahoma Olive Lucius, who came from rhe South African production: and the English tenor, Lionel Baker, who was in Oklahoma at Drury Lane. The Borovansky Ballet Company concludes its Sydney run at the Empire on June 30, and will after wards have a season in ...

... entertainers and pave ment artists diverted the passing public. Sir Laurence, in his speech, recalled that at a meeting ai Drury Lane, shortly after Sir Henry Irving's death in 1905, it was agreed that the acting profession should be invited to contribute ...

... and the unsophisticated sentimentalities of Bunn 7 The opera is, of course, more than a century old. It was pro duced at Drury Lane on Novem ber 27, 1843, when the composer was 35. But music is not to be judged by age, though a libretto may be found stale ...

... musical effects; and Mr. Campbell himself the stirring sword fights. AFTER SOUTH PACIFIC Mary Martin in her dressing-room at Drury Lane being greeted by her 9-year-old daughter, Hellar Halliday, after last week's historic premiere ...

... DRURY LANE SOUTH PACIFIC On November 1 Williamson Music, Ltd., presented the musical play (as originally produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham merstein II, in association with Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan), with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics ...

... he did not bother to claim authorship. It was Steele's insistence that finally caused it to j be presented anonymously at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Colley Cibber being the original Fantome. The literary controversy it produced was a coffee-house sensation ...