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WEEKEHt. hIAGAZINE Poet's Pet Lobster

... its owner was accustomed to !hem, an oyster that could whistle. The who kept an oyster bee in Josephine Baker, the famous Drury Lane. used to keep it in a coloured cabaret star used to bowl of water on his counter to walk the Paris boulevards with arnase ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

INSPIRED BY MOTHER

... inspiration that led hint to write Keep the Home Fires Burning. It earned him £16.000. His first big musical. presented at Drury - lane, wa a Glamorous Nights. This success was consolidated with many more hitsamong them Careless Rapture, Crest Of The ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

King of Ruritania

... his Glamorous Night, Careless Rapture and Crest of the —his hat trick at Drury Lane—were all shows with big c effects. w. Macqueen Pope, in his history of Drury Lane, tells of an slant stage manager who was tester for the effects in 'ello's ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 809 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... and lavishly illustrated book are the Flea, at Meidreth, Cumberland, the Whistling Oyster, once Inn, now an oyster shop in Drury-lane, London—so named because the innkeeper discovered among his stock an oyster that made a hissing sound—and Simon the Tanner ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 290 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOW TURPTN AVENGED DOWN DOWN JINISHI Jean Slock taking tiro the counts last night's contest In the middle ..

... whole league the standard of play would and well worth watching sufficient interest is shown other leagues Mr Wiltshire Drury Lane Ullesthorpei is pre- Reynards 24 For Devon Tour Reynards a com-btied Stoneygate - Westleigh aie Devon again Easter and will ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1547 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

IN .11:1.. But even so Britain is I I.lml of superstiti..,l liche‘( Is. Lucto (+aims sell by the milhou: most ..

... children. Drury Lane Theatre has Its Even burglars are superown particular form of omen- stitious. Seotland Yard will phobia. Every cast of a new vouch for the belief among production looks anxiously for this section of the tommunity the Drury Lane ghost ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1158 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HIT OF THE SHOW

... HIT OF THE SHOW ILTOU can get away with it at Drury Lane, with a superb cast and big production effects. But shorn of the glory of famous names and breathtakingly spectacular staging, Glamorous Night, presented by Leicester Amateur Operatic Society ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 769 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ESTABLISHED Ills _I

... art. After Pavlova, English audiences saw more Russian ballet, this time performed by Diaghileff's company. In 1913 at Drury Lane, Russian ballet and opera were sponsored by Sir Joseph Beecham, millionaire father of Sir Thomas. Diaghileff's ballet was ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1951
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 747 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

.... _RAIL EXCURSIONS_ From LEICESTER SATS.. 9 amid 1$ MASON LONDON 111 . LONDON (SI. Psesairgia) 1911 CENTRAL ..

... turn 6.11) pm. 7.32 pm or ON , C pm DRIVE TO THEATRE ',. and HI.SLRVED THEATRE SATURDAY, • MARCH SEAT AT COVENTRY 4 is DRURY LANE-- - Dsuils (Casentre City a. City) Muse IA,NDON ROAD dep. 11.50 am 9, 6 5 pm. 8.r.,-Kings also from Wisaton Lite . ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1952
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LONDON SHOW SPECIAL Cooks arrange an exciting night's entertainment! Charge includes return rail fare, tea and ..

... Marti• • Drury BET YOUR LIFE Art u • Ask ela • Hippodrome GAY'S THE WORD Cicely Courtneidye • Saville Laleestar 40'6 42'- Drury Lane THOS COOK and SON. LTD. Gallowtree Gate. Leicester. In conjunction with British Railways and the Creative Tourist Agents' ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1952
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 79 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

12 LEICESTER MERCURY WEDNESDAY MARCH Glenahdri Wins: iAt Warwick - 2 ft-PACKWOOD H CAP CHASE £201) 2m If ' SHELLEY

... promotion contenders Cardiff City - ' FIGHT IN DOCK AFTER FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE GEORGE PYSER (22) a street fruit trader of Drury Lane sentenced at Surrey Quarter' Sessions today to five years imprisonment struggled in the dock and it' took four gaolers and ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1952
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2667 | Page: 12 | Tags: none