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To the Editor of The Stage: Theatre On The Civic Front

... near as is humanly possible cost nothing! Older theatres and larger theatres were also represented, for the Hay- market. Drury Lane, the Royal Opera House and the Piccadilly all appeared. Even multi-purpose con cert halls were not left out. A considerable ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Evelyn laye

... star by making the occasion a truly memorable one. Marie Tempest s bi-ccntury was celebrated with a special matinee at Drury Lane. Couldn't something of this nature be repeated? Nor would it be amiss at sometime to see Miss Laye's name appear in an honours ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Lewis Waller

... that some thirty years later Wontener was to appear as the Cardinal Richelieu in the musical version produced in 1930 at Drury Lane. Ynum fnithfnllv Henry W. Hendra. wooacote Avenue. Wallington, Surrey. ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: The New Dolly

... been one of my fav ourite actresses, and I hope she will make such a big success that Hello, Dolly will be playing at Drury Lane when I make my next visit to London next year. Very sincerely yours, Marjorie Berman, 1096, West Boulevard, Los Angeles ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1966
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: First to Double?

... Queen of Hearts. At Brighton she was intro duced to Augustus Harris, who wanted her to appear the Christmas following at Drury Lane. Since he was forced to make his arrange ments so far ahead, he had already engaged Nelly Power to play the star part. Tilly ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1966
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 406 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: What Name?

... where the Playhouse was, but what is this new theatre? To be with it how about changing the name of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, to The Dinkie. That was the original name of the Playhouse, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. Yours faithfully. Tom Gill, Si Denbigh ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1967
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Presentation plus

... opportune and I had every intention of writing to you on this subject following a recent visit to our greatest theatre, Drury Lane. We arrived at the theatre soon after 7 p.m. and enquired of the commissionaire if we could obtain coffee in the bar and ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: 'Playbill'

... printed cast lis* and synopsis and very little in the way of biographies the rest, advertise ments (the exception being Drury Lane which has always had an excellent individual programme). I have ten examples of the old type programme in front of me as ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: The Bromley plan

... and Arts Council have made a sad miscalcu lation in wildly splurging £2 million. What possible use can a stage the size of Drury Lane's be to u small repertory company? What sort of shows do they propose to put on? If they are commensurate with the size ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: The new theatre at Bromley

... his right. As far as I am aware his voice was not heard. As a matter of pure fact, the stage at Bromley is not the size of Drury Lane, but of course it is true to say that the expansion of the scale of operations will be about as large as took place between ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter