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HALF A CENTURY IN THE THEATRE

... the Ambassadors revues during the late war Rose Marie, first of the elaborate operettas that chartered the great stage of Drury Lane. Here, as one flicks down the list, are the many types of play that have had West End fame thick-ear melodrama, sentimental ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print: Being the lucubrations of your moft obedient fceribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... the topical song is taboo. It was not always so, certainly not in the days of Arthur Collins and Sir Francis Burnand at Drury Lane. That versatile comedian Mr. Arthur Riscce reminds me that he went to a pantomime, almost his first, as long ago as 1907 ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1712 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LONDON SCENE: An Ambassador Relinquishes His Post: Folk Dancers Come to Town: Twelfth Night in Theatreland

... the leading lady in Oklahoma, helps Mr. Austin Melford, Deputy Master of the Baddeley Fund, to cut the Baddeley Cake at Drury Lane. This was the third Twelfth Night in succession that members of the cast of Oklahoma had taken part in the traditional ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 398 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

SHOWS IN BRIEF

... VIOLETTE. WILD VIOLETS (Stoll).-- These romps in and around a Swiss finishing school are no less arch and coy than they were at Drury Lane in 1932 but the score, by Robert Stolz, can still soothe the ear. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

CAROUSEL'S LEADING LADY

... CAROUSEL'S LEADING LADY IVA WITHERS plays Julie Jordan in the Broadway musical Carousel, opening I to-night, June 7, at Drury Lane. Born of the Hammerstein Rodgers partnership, it is set in the period 1873-1888 has an Anglo-American cast of round about ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 60 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Edinburgh performance, .leapt 1 up, crying, Whaur 's your 9 Wullie Shakespeare noo Playgoers at Carousel, which 1 j opens at Drury Lane to-night 1 (June 7), should make sure that 1 they are seated before the rise of 1 I the curtain. The whole of the first ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

HUMOUR AND SATIRE IN B.B.C. STAFF REVUE: Silver Jubilee Production Take the Mike Contained Many Shrewd Burlesques

... scene. Every department was represented in the show which played to capacity for four performances at the Fortune Theatre Drury Lane Co-producer Miss Audrey Cameron (Variety) directing the Ariel Players from the circle Mr. Alan Paul (Variety), at the piano ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 160 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... Taylour, Lord Bective, Lady Olivia Taylour and Miss Elizabeth Clarke. Carousel, the new Hammerstein- Rodgers musical play at Drury Lane, received tremendous applause on the first night (one of the hottest nights of the summer) from a very enthusiastic audience ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3608 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Amusing The American: Reflections On The New York Theatre, Radio, Television, Cinema And Gramophone Worlds

... with the praise I think the New York theatre has justly earned. If you saw the original all- American Oklahoma! at the Drury Lane Theatre, I have no doubt you received the impression that here was something enchantingly fresh and differ ent. There was ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2429 | Page: 74 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO . . . . . . AND WE APPLAUD

... Mille triangle. Photographed by ANGUS McBEAN. SUPREME choreographer of the ballet in Oklahoma and of those in Carousel, at Drury Lane and doubtless more to come Agnes de Mille has brought to the famous Hammerstein- Rodgers partnership the third art which ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Cliveden

... the Prince was passionately devoted to music, and he commanded the first performance of Thomson's Masque of Alfred by the Drury Lane Company in the open amphitheatre which exists to this day. The music was by Dr. Arne, and included Rule, Britannia, which ...