... the foyer-- thai it is the only London theatre where Charley s Aunt has failed! Covent Garden Market strongly ob jected to Drury Lane Theatre beine painted outside. When they put reH over all the pillars the porters called it Rhubarb Row. They did not mind ...

... not going to move. The coachman must have his own way for once. Where are we now? I don't like this so much. Drury Lane-- Then, Drury Lane is better in winter. The summer pantomime is not nearly so pretty. Let us stop a bit to hear that barrel-organ ...

... visit Genet al Monk, then encamped in Hyde Park, soliciting successfully a license for reopening the old Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, which was again empty, Sir William Davenant having taken the Dorset Gardens Theatre. He obtained his request, and returned ...

... An opportune notice of Wagner's Master-singers of Niirnberg, soon to be performed for the first time in this country at Drury Lane, is the chief article of special note in the new Theatre. From the Antiquarian, Tins ley, London Society, and the St. James's ...

... conceit the actors burst says the late Mr. Donaldson into a loud fit of laughter. That youth afterwards played Shylock at Drury Lane Theatre, and his name was Edmund Kean. The old actor he imitated was the favourite and most successful pupil of Macklin ...

... bus. Dan Leno, now 1 Do you mean to say you can sit through a pantomime at Drury Lane without laugh ing at Dan Leno I am not in the habit ot going to pantomimes at Drury Lane. Well, you couldn't help laughing if you were.. Have you ever read Barry ...

... and from it, in 1574, were first selected and duly sworn her Majesty's servants, a title which exists in connection with Drury Lane Theatre to this day. So famous was his son Richard that we are told 110 country gentleman thought himself qualified for ...

... rousing regalia of a king, with ostrich aigrette and linoleum shield. I tell you he is something that would stagger even Drury Lane for sumptuous barbarism. He treats her with such regal urbanity that she sagely surmises his object is bigamy. Before he ...

... to the horizon. On the skyscape there is the hottest thing in suns that paint and language can command. In front of this Drury Lane Phoebus there stands a comatose camel staring with ghastly composure at the rubicund stage-manager in the wings. A man is ...

... deed done. The picture was as vivid to his mental vision as that other picture which he had seen last night on the stage at Drury Lane. What comes of Dorrell's theory, that every murder is discover ed, he asked himself bitterly. Here is some low village ...

... How-not-to-do-it. That was what it had got to. The scarecrow of the theatre, the bogey man he, Leonard Light, who had been Drury Lane's leading man for fifteen years, who had trained, exercised, taught himself hour upon hour of fencing, ballet, mime, till ...