... Dean, the leading director of the day, acting in his produc tions of Loyalties, R.U.R. and A Midsum mer Night's Dream at Drury Lane. He served in both world wars, being gassed and temporarily blinded in the first and serving as a staff officer in the second ...

... ERNEST KINGDOM. who died on Mav 27. aged 78, will be best remembered as one of the pillars of Drury Lane (W. Macqueen Pope, 1955), where he was assistant manager from 1947 up to the time of his retirement in 1973. In his earlier years, he was associated ...

... Commission in Sicily and Italy. Returning to the theatre, several West End runs included the Stardust in Carousel in 1951 at Drury Lane. Later, he worked in film and TV and became a household face AS Joseph Starr in the long-running series Starr and Co. ...

... the thirties he was director at Sheffield, Northampton and York, and he h8d several West End runs, including Carousel at Drury Lane. He later concen trated on films and television and be came known nationally in the series Starr and Company. Additionally ...

... Cyprus during the Partition. As a com pany manager he had worked in almost every West End theatre from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to the Westminster. As an actor he was a versatile and comic performer. Recent roles included the lead in Sleuth at the ...

... Bennett DiFiglia. He was married for a time to Donna McKenhnie, whose proposed inclusion the the cast of A Chorus Line at Drury Lane led to a dispute in 1976 with Equity. FRANCES STEPHENS, who has died aged 81, was a firm friend of the British theatre and ...

... years. She was the widow of Frank C. Mar shall, who was general manager for Prince Littler and managed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for several years. ...

... over 25 musicals and at Covent Garden. In the sixties he was in Camelot, Hello Dolly, Mame and The Four Musketeers at the Drury Lane, and, in the seventies in other musicals, not ably in 1776 at the Albery and in Show boat at the Adelphi. Hailing from ...

... London in 1962 in seven different roles. Pippin, Chicago, which he also co-wrote, and Dancin', which was seen briefly on Drury Lane and at the Royal Variety Command Performance in 1983 Other credits were the two Broadway revivals of Pal Joey in which he ...

... dance triumph was as Judy, second lead in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Chorus Line at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She played in Coronation Street as the character Elaine Prior, was a co-presen ter of the childrens' TV programme Play ...

... went to New York, appearing with Eddie Cantor on Broadway in 1922 in Make It Snappy. Her greatest success, however, was at Drury Lane in 1928, when she appeared as Julie in Show Boat, after which she enjoyed an exceptionally varied career, starring in musicals ...

... Estuary, but reco vered sufficiently from this setback to create a success as Lord Martlet! in the production of Cavalcade at Drury Lane. Son of Fay Compton and H.G. Pellissier of Pellissier's Follies fame, both sides of his parentage displayed themselves in ...