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To the Editor of The Stage: PROVINCIAL THEATRES

... redecoration for the Royal Scottish Variety Performance in 1958, is superior to any London theatre with the exception of Drury Lane. Yours faithfully John Wright. 122. Brackenbrae Avenue, Bishopbriggs. To the Editor 0/ The Stage ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 18 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: OKLAHOMA!

... state of maturity they sometimes now reach. But it must not be forgotten that since 1946, when it was originally produced at Drury Lane, musicals have advanced even further. The ballet forms of West Side Story and the operatic innovations of The Most Happy ...

Published: Thursday 20 October 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 16 | Tags: letter 

Jerome Whyte could not say 'No'

... Derek Rae's letter in your last issue, the cost of reproducing the gay posters of Oklahoma! which adorned the exterior of Drury Lane when the show was done there, is now up about 150 percent. This I told Mr. Jerome Whytc when he approached this company ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Old Musicals

... compelled to write to you in defence of the old musicals. I can just remember seeing Harry Wclorwnan in The Desert Song at Drury Lane when I was five years old, arid the show made such a vivid impression on me that today I thank heaven for John Hanson His ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Television Today: LETTERS - The Rebel--Some Replies

... QIR.--Who on earth is the author of that incoherent letter printed in your issue of 1st February! The Equity meeting at Drury Lane on 21 si January was the most representative and at the same time the most democratic which has ever been held in the history ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

Letters: The Rebel--some Replies

... the meeting at Drury Lane? Why did they not even attend Mr. Cadbury's? It is, of course, probable that out of 10,800 members there are more than 29 who are opposed to the Council. It is, however, reasonable to consider that the Drury Lane meeting the largest ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

Letters: The Rebel--some Replies

... nature. By what right what facts or figures-- does he assume that the majority of actors assembled for the Equity meet ing at Drury Lane were refugees from West End failures or pro vincial engagements? And by what alchemy does the distinguished name of Noel ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: NOT SATISFIED

... Independent Television Authority which it created In reply to Mr. Croasdell's letter it should be stated that at the famous Drury Lane meeting there were quite a number of members who abstained from voting either way because they were not entirely satisfied ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Welcome!

... Welcome! SIR. When I went to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the other evening. I was greeted at the top of the stairs leading to the dre&s circle by a resplendent flunkey. Good evening, sir!, he smiled, May I direct you to your seat? He seemed to ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of the Stage: Drury Lane Anniversary

... Drury Lane Anniversary SIR, I read in your issue of the 11th inst. a leading article en titled: The poor show relative to the approaching three hundredth birthday of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It may interest you to know that I organised a Royal ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1963
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Theatre Today

... advertising and a fashion- conscious environment, can ihey really be expected to arrive at the imposing entrance to, say Drury Lane, hot and perspiring after an energetic journey from the suburbs? For the majority of young people (and there wifl always ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1964
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of the Stage: Churchill and Ellen Terry

... Churchill and Ellen Terry Ellrn Terry's stage jubilee maiiiiee at Drury Lane: quoting from Ellen Terry's Memoirs by Edith Craig and Christopher St. John. In the oak-bound book there is a report of a speech made by Mr. Winston Churchill, who presided ...

Published: Thursday 04 February 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 16 | Tags: letter