... 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 ...

... situations, and each year at Drury Lane, for instance, there was a new story, and a vast array of special effects to support it, in their way more spectacular than anything we see today. Take the 1899 pantomime at Drury Lane, for example, when the Giant's ...

... brilliance as a pan tomime performer, an aspect of her art which is often overlooked, though she contributed greatly to the huge Drury Lane pantomimes in partnership with Dan Lcno and Herbert Campbell. Unavoidably, there is a lot of the catalogue about the book ...

... of trying to translate the contem porary praise and opinion into modern terms. In 1895 Terry was at the Lyceum, Duse at Drury Lane, and Bernhardt at Daly's. Clearly all three appealed to a visual code. All three used the same floating lines of dress, ...

... 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 ...

... though it effectively juxtaposes the viewpoints of two women from two very different historical periods. Charke played at Drury Lane and at the Hay market, in a bewildering variety of roles, and in 1735 first played the role of Lord Foppington a role which ...

... 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 ...

... Sensational stuff On the mightiest of all theatre stages Sensation Smith of Drury Lane (by Dennis Castle. Publ. by Charles Skilton Ltd £14.95) EARTHQUAKES, horse races, tornadoes, shipwrecks, battles on land and sea, marching warriors, striking miners ...

... at the turn of the century. He was an expert on stage machinery, having been responsi ble for construction of it at both Drury Lane and Covent Garden. To teach himself about the the atre, he had worked as a stage hand, and in pursuit of his other great ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...