... Jane Shore and The Colleen Bawn down through the times of The Silver King, The Lights o' London. the I autumn dramas at Drury Lane, the Melvitles, Edgar Wallace, and many another. The author states 1 have seen melodrama grow old and then die. I have written ...

... notable at university, and an all-American football hero. He found his first fame in the theatre in England, in Show Boat at Drury Lane, and for years following this triumph he filled the concert halls of the world with his recitals of spirituals. His acting ...

... he wrote the book and in which Harry Secombe starred, making the point that the production, which ran for some months at Drury Lane, might well have been more popular for much longer if put on in a relatively smaller theatre, such as the Palace. Mr Pertwee ...

... reissued by Heinemann at £3.75. First published in 1937, it brings Coward's life up to the production of Cavalcade at Drury Lane in 1931. Childhood in Teddington, youth in London, his first steps in the theatre when still a boy, the processes and chances ...

... Shaw and the Young Vic. Also brought in now is the Round House The information on London's theatres through the years, from Drury Lane built in 1663, to the New London, built in 1973. is invaluable. The data are accompanied by surveys of back ground, impact ...

... Falstaffs. Elliston was highly individual and drank too much. But he achieved a major ambition when he became manager of Drury Lane, where he opened his first season with Kean in King Lear. He went bankrupt, but made a return to the theatre at the Surrey ...

... writer, composer, actor, director, matinee idol, manager. His musicals were his grandest product, and some of them filled Drury Lane for years. His plays were for the season, not particularly strong, but diverting and invariably well cast with names that ...

... misery, offset this. One hour in power and command at Drury Lane, the next he would be sodden with drink, a fool lost in tavern debauchery. There is a mass of complicated material concerning Drury Lane itself, as well as Kean's work there, and this Mr F ...

... Roberts, which Logan co-authored, his direction of the marvellous South Pacific and his considerable part in a lesser Drury Lane success, Fanny. Nor should his work in films of the fifties be forgotten, box office blockbusters like Picnic, Bus ...

... superb sense of the theatrical. The book is also good in its descrip tion of the staging, mechanics and economics of the Drury Lane pan tomimes, in which even star performers, such as Dan Leno, sometimes played se cond fiddle to the effects. But what comes ...

... business man, he isn't. He was ousted from the Traverse, walked away from the Jeannetta Cochrane, lost the Arts Laboratory in Drury Lane, got tired of IT, sailed too close to the wind with Suck. But many people in London Haynes now lives in Paris remember him ...

... Sensational stuff On the mightiest of all theatre stages Sensation Smith of Drury Lane (by Dennis Castle. Publ. by Charles Skilton Ltd £14.95) EARTHQUAKES, horse races, tornadoes, shipwrecks, battles on land and sea, marching warriors, striking miners ...