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... 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• ...
... 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 ...
... 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) ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... John Rich, who opened the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in December. 1714. was our first panto-mime. About the same time Drury Lane produced' Harlequin Doctor Faustus, considered to be the first real English, pantomime. Ta-day's nearest. approach to ...
... Manchester 8. means—an English custom much older than Baddeley—but the title should not be appropriated. That belongs only to Drury Lane. • Good luck to them all—and may they play the Lane again —and eat the real Baddeley Cake maybe W. Macqueen-Pope. 359 ...
... Manchester. There is only one Baddeley cake—that cut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as decreed in the will of old Robert Baddeley, of cakey and histrionic memory. We at Drury Lane are proud of this function, which is ours exclusively. No other cake cut ...
... days could imagine such right The circumstances were introduced during the hearing a claim by Mr Arthur Stott farmer of Drury Lane Farm Shawforth for possession of house occupied by Mr Harris and which adjoins the farm Mr N England (solicitor of Messrs ...
... He settled in London when he was 33, and a few months later he had his biggest success the opera Maritana, produced at Drury Lane. Other operas followed, and they were also successful, but they are not performed now. After 14 years in Germany his eyesight ...
... FEBRUARY I ONCE NIOHTLY Monday IS at 15 Saturday Only Two Performances 30 lUlph BARRY SINCLAIR In IVOR NOVELLO'S GREATEST DRURY LANE MUSICAL CARELESS RAPTURE Lyric by CHRISTOPHER HASSALL Produced by RALPH READER ROEG CHARLES GILLESPIE JOAN NORMAN ARTHUR ...
... of politics to something that approximates more closely to the unchanging They will hear the first act of Oklahoma from Drury Lane An outstanding treat is promised in the Home service next Sunday when the Old Vic company will play Goldsmith's She Stoops ...