... own, in a reproduction of A'fred Bryan's Entr'acte oartoon depicting Catling and Northoott as Masters respec tively of the Drury Lane and Savage Club lodges. Many former journalistic com rades, dead or alive, are mentioned in the same kindlv spirit in the ...

... the [Sixties, for he was for a short time with George Cooper's opera company in Birmingham he was for several seasons at Drury Lane, dur ing the run of Boucicault's Jessie Brown, or The Relief of Lucknow, for instance; and he mado his first ap pearance ...

... Isle of Thanet Gazette, the recollections of Mr. R. H. Lindo. which appeared in our columns after his retirement from Drury Lane. Some mention of this fact, might surely have oecn made after the re-issue of his interesting and plea santly anecdctic ...

... Swinburne when 1? L^'P8- How Benson received the Freedom of Stratford, and how he was knighted by the King °P tage of Drury Lane on t the Shakespeare Tercentenary ore 3 roted in ono of the appendices to c a book marred by some careless mis spellings ...

... Fry's n.ppear- ances at Shakespeare Festivals at the Old Vic and at Drury Lane. 1 The latter was in 1916, when he was soon as Father Time, and he also took part in the pageant of Drury Lane, arranged in celebration of Arthur Collins's management. Charles ...

... Jane Shore and The Colleen Bawn down through the times of The Silver King, The Lights o' London. the I autumn dramas at Drury Lane, the Melvitles, Edgar Wallace, and many another. The author states 1 have seen melodrama grow old and then die. I have written ...

... notable at university, and an all-American football hero. He found his first fame in the theatre in England, in Show Boat at Drury Lane, and for years following this triumph he filled the concert halls of the world with his recitals of spirituals. His acting ...

... 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 ...