... he was associate director, with Herbert M. Prentice, of 1066 and All That. He was head of the revue section of ENSA at Drury Lane. SUSAN GREGORY, deputy stage manager, died unexpected ly in hospital on March 12, aged 25. She will be sadly missed by the ...

... Majesty's. At the Garrick she played Sophie Fullgarney in Hare's farewell performance of The Gay Lord Quex and appeared at Drury Lane in The Whip in 1909. She was at Stratford in 1911, playing Portia, and again in 1916, playing Hermione and Lady Macbeth ...

... when it was seen in this country, with Joan Miller, under the title so Wise, So Young. He superintended the rehear sals at Drury Lane of The Garden of Allah, which he helped to stage in the absence of its author, his life-long friend. Robert Hitchins. Midnight ...

... 1928, but the crowning achievement of her career came in 1931 when she played Jane Marryot in Noel Coward's Cavalcade at Drury Lane. Her deeply moving performance will never be forgotten by those who were fortunate enough to see it. Apart from Ellen Creed ...

... Obituary LESTER BARRETT LESTER BARRETT, the actor, died in Keighley on September 23. aged 68 After starting as a chorus boy at Drury Lane, he scored a conspicuous success as Ichabod Bronson, the leading comedy part in The Belle of New York, which he played ...

... Married CARLO MANSI, a singer now appearing in The Great Waltz at Drury Lane, was married on Sunday last to Maggie Dew, head dancer from the London Palladium. The wed ding took place at St Mathias Church, Worcester Park, Surrey. ...

... was not until 1938 that he made hjs debut in the legitimate theatre, playing Sergeant Hop kins in The Sun Never Sets at Drury Lane. He toured ex tensively, notably as Bill Grant in Alf's Button, and in 1942 was at the Duchess as 'Oppy Parker in Lifeline ...

... and the St James's until 1939. He was General Manager and Director of Associated Theatre Properties and General Manager of Drury Lane, the Apollo, the Lyric, the Globe, the Phoenix and Her Majesty's. From 1958 to 1961 he was Pre sident, of the Society of ...

... FRANK C MARSHALL FRANK C. MARSHALL, who was general manager of Drury Lane for many years, particu larly during the Rodgers and Hammerstein period, and more recently was the general man ager of the Scala, died at his Wimbledon home on Monday last. His ...

... ago was ended with the death of F. C. Marshall, already reported briefly in The Stage, who was himself general manager of Drury Lane until 1946. He began his career as an actor, at the Royal, Leamington, in Kitty, and in 1922 toured as Harry Bronson in ...

... in matters of stage engineering. Many productions from My Fair Lady to Catch my Soul and almost every London theatre from Drury Lane to the Haymarket, as well as many theatres in the country bear evidence of this. ...

... She gained enormous popularity in London and was chosen to play Rose Marie when that classic musical was first seen at Drury Lane in 1925. She became the Queen of the Lane, for after a two-year run in Rose Marie she stayed on as the leading lady of The ...