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... Palace, when he died in 1726. Oriflnally called A Journey to it was taken over ? _Colley Cibber who completed it and staged at Drury Lane as “The Provok'd Husband.” It has been restored S ...

Published: Monday 19 January 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Tempo Dedicated amateurs keep stage musicals alive

... visit Edinburgh after its London run.” Glasgow has been more fortunate, importing “My Fair Lady ” and *“ Hello Dolly from Drury Lane, as well as seeing the 111-fated “Strike a Light.” Touring productions of “ Hair” and * Fiddler on the Roof are on their ...

Published: Monday 16 March 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Conrad Wilson

... burgh Festival); since then the rise of Montserrat Caballe, who sang Elizabeth at a concert performance of the opera at Drury Lane a fortnight ago, has provided a further reason for its revival. HMV, however, have found a third contender: Beverley Sills ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Bard amid the alien corn

... Wood ” with six actors each taking a variety of parts, and lighting effects capturing the changing mood of the Rem. At the Drury Lane eatre Carol Channing, the American comedienne, is now successfully sending up the star system in a brave one-woman review ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

w——_—_ ELIZABETH MORRIS IN LONDON A sense of occasion

... embarrassment into a sense of occasion. . Which is exactly what Carol Channing did at the opening of her show at London’s Drury Lane Theatre. When the lights played tricks with her and the microphones gave up ge ghost, she pitched her hyperboles ten tones ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Wheelchair student is capped THE GREAT WALTZ

... student is capped THE GREAT WALTZ AN extravaganza of music and dance entitled “ The Great Waltz” opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, this week. Bernard Delfont and Harold Fielding have blended a nice mixture of elaborate costumes and scenery with the rich ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Who said Scotland hasn’t got a National Anthem ? HAE!

... snatched at as a and the English Midlands! avoid their s' haring the same ew Zea- The stirring words came st, 1745, r of the Drury Lane King” was rate morale booster. The song merely became anthem tune with and pertinent point: from Burns’s pen in a. re- “Rather ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Your LP rack SILVESTER IS STILL KEEPING IN STEP

... hide two fairly mediocre deen, and George Berwick, from the musical that opened records. the holder of several North- at Drury Lane's famous One. with a nightmarish Theatre Royal this summer It face on front and what seems | east records. a biblical theme ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 948 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

[• SPOTLIGHT J

... year is Ruby Melvin, daughter of wellknown Aberdonian actor S Melvin, who played seven consecutive years is the Dame in Drury Lane pantomimes of the Thirties, Also on Arbroath this week, Neil Simon’s Barefoot In the Park”, presented by the Abbey Theatre ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 483 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Illg‘ll advertising

... y, Dorset. The weapons were in the collection of Mr Mark Dineley, a registered arms dealer who is director of a firm in Drury Lane, London, which hires guns to film and stage companies. |—-—-————-—'—_———— Det. Chief Supt. Harry HuH, head of Wilu{:lre ...

Published: Thursday 26 November 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 602 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TYRANNY OF THE MACHINE Nothing works any longer

... keeping in a misprint in pmof,mt.t Was so lwaou“g error thewu@(l’}nsd it. In a criticism “A Midsummer Night's Dream ™ at Drury Lane the printers changed the character of Hermia to Hernia. “Keep it in, keep it in” he crowed to his unpaid assistant editor ...

Published: Monday 21 December 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE appeal of the old-style Christmas show will never die, says Gordon Irving as he looks at: Panto through the

... surely, will never die. The amazing thing about pantomime, from the time of the first production of “Robinson Crusoe” at Drury Lane on January 29, 1781, is that it is still going strong. I admit that, from time to time, there have been innovations such ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 597 | Page: 8 | Tags: none