... he wrote the book and in which Harry Secombe starred, making the point that the production, which ran for some months at Drury Lane, might well have been more popular for much longer if put on in a relatively smaller theatre, such as the Palace. Mr Pertwee ...

... reissued by Heinemann at £3.75. First published in 1937, it brings Coward's life up to the production of Cavalcade at Drury Lane in 1931. Childhood in Teddington, youth in London, his first steps in the theatre when still a boy, the processes and chances ...

... Shaw and the Young Vic. Also brought in now is the Round House The information on London's theatres through the years, from Drury Lane built in 1663, to the New London, built in 1973. is invaluable. The data are accompanied by surveys of back ground, impact ...

... Falstaffs. Elliston was highly individual and drank too much. But he achieved a major ambition when he became manager of Drury Lane, where he opened his first season with Kean in King Lear. He went bankrupt, but made a return to the theatre at the Surrey ...

... writer, composer, actor, director, matinee idol, manager. His musicals were his grandest product, and some of them filled Drury Lane for years. His plays were for the season, not particularly strong, but diverting and invariably well cast with names that ...

... misery, offset this. One hour in power and command at Drury Lane, the next he would be sodden with drink, a fool lost in tavern debauchery. There is a mass of complicated material concerning Drury Lane itself, as well as Kean's work there, and this Mr F ...

... Roberts, which Logan co-authored, his direction of the marvellous South Pacific and his considerable part in a lesser Drury Lane success, Fanny. Nor should his work in films of the fifties be forgotten, box office blockbusters like Picnic, Bus ...