... provincial theatres. Her name, he was told, was Mrs. Sarah Siddons. Garrick immediately asked her to come to London and star at Drury Lane for a salary of £5 a week. But she was not ready to be a star, She was nervous and inexperienced. She was sacked and sent ...

... Order was membership is open to founded in London in males from the age of 1822, in a tavern near 18 upwards, with no the Drury Lane Thea- upper limit. A womtre, and many of the en’s “sister” organisaearly members be- tion, the Glades, have longed to the ...

... forward the Duke of Connaught 14 years previously, but it was only four years ago that the design for the great building near Drury Lane was adopted. The dedication ceremony was held in the presence of many members of the Royal Family, and an imposing gathering ...

... popular festivgl. Twelfth Cakes were baked and this custom continued well into the reign of George IV. The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, has its own Twelfth Night Custom which it keeps to this day. e In 1794, Robert Baddeley. a former past~ cook turned ...

... “Christmas Day in the Workhouse” . . . the proper version .. . and a lesser known tear-jerker about the little fairy from the Drury Lane Chorus Line. The wonderful characters created by Charles Diclens are re-created in a Christmas Eve presentation of “Charles ...

... AUDIENCE UNAWARE AFFAIR. A noted French actress and dancer died during Thursday night’s performance at Drury Lane Theatre, London, from a bullet wound in the chest. The tragedy occurred in the manager’s office at about IU-15 p.m., shortly alter the last ...

... Hampshire and attending ballet classes, for example. After training in the Royal Academy of Dfamatic Art, she had a number of Drury Lane and other performances, before making her first film, a minor thriller Eyes of Fate (1933). This was followed the following ...

... Treasury in Camden Road, subject to;day. Deceased conducte eriously prejudice | another at most of the I ng medium. An-jcluding Drury Lane. is growing of operatic music and 6 that the Govern: |48. Ho had been ill abo ng its promiee to = Promice to| A SOLICITO ...

... father-in-law the question of bringing Tauber to England. His father-in-law agreed, and Tauber came to England appeared at Drury Lane Theatre Land Smiles.” Tauber became big name with toe public, said counsel, but, unfortunate . one night he suffered from ...

... eciprocated by the members. SOLDIERS SHINE AS ENTERTAINERS CONCERT BRILLIANCE. A young English soldier who formerly sang at Drury Lane, London, is now hitting the high spots in Northern Ireland with a military concert party called “In Town To-night,” a skit ...

... M.P., acmiiring the whole of the Duke of Bedford’s vtatc in the heart of London—an area of ■ i.ieteen acres containing Drury Lane heatre, Covent Garden Market and Opera louse, and Bov.-street The »rice was not disclosed, but millions was only word used ...

... Goldmsmith's “She Stoops To Conquer” opens tonight, Thursday, and continues until May 28. The play was first presented at Drury Lane in the year preceding that other great classic, The Rivals, with many of the same actors in the cast. Andrew Lloyd Webber's ...