" Chaplin's early years in music hall allowed him to see stage comedians at work ; he also attended the Christmas pantomimes at Drury Lane, where he studied the art of clowning.

Byron Bolton ’ s statements were also backed up by William Drury, a maverick Chicago detective who had stayed on the massacre case long after everyone else had given up.

By 1762 he was a full member of the Drury Lane company, and he remained there for the rest of his career, while also playing summer seasons at the Haymarket.

Florida also contains the village of Drury.

Smirnoff is also a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University where he teaches " The Business of Laughter.

Dannay and Lee also wrote four novels about a detective named Drury Lane using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross.

The area to the south of Long Acre contains the Royal Opera House, the market and central square, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum ; while the area to the north of Long Acre is largely given over to independent retail units centred on Neal Street, Neal's Yard and Seven Dials ; though this area also contains residential buildings such as Odhams Walk, built in 1981 on the site of the Odhams print works, and is home to over 6, 000 residents.

But later in life, he also managed to lose most of his wealth and had to earn extra cash by acting as a numberer of the boxes at Drury Lane Theatre.

He also wrote a translated semi-opera version of Michel-Jean Sedaine's work Richard Coeur de lion with music by Thomas Linley the elder for the Drury Lane Theatre where it was very successful in 1788.

Whitmore also made several memorable appearances on the classic ABC western The Big Valley starring Barbara Stanwyck and the classic NBC western The Virginian starring James Drury during the second half of the 1960s.

The street Drury Lane is also where The Muffin Man lives as mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme.

The second 1723 adaptation, also performed at Drury Lane, was Theophilus Cibber's King Henry VI: A Tragedy, which used Act 5 of 2 Henry VI and Acts 1 and 2 of 3 Henry VI, and which featured his father Colley Cibber as Winchester.

Her brother Thomas also benefited from the marriage as he became house composer at Drury Lane, and wrote music for a number of plays and pantomimes over the next several years.

John Philip Kemble, actor and manager of Drury Lane Theatre, later claimed he had serious doubts about its authenticity ; he also suggested that the play appear on April Fool's Day, though Samuel Ireland objected, and the play was moved to the next day.

While his success was becoming more solidified as a writer, Foote was also in demand as an actor, working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden during the 1753-4 season.

Joseph Hayne, a button-moulder who owned a shop nearby, also ran a tavern named the Black Lion off Drury Lane, which he encouraged the local apprentices to frequent.

The second daughter, Anne, married Sir Drew Drury ; the third daughter married Francis Coppinger, whose descendant has changed his name to de Burgh ; the fourth daughter Katherine married Thomas Knyvett, who was also ( by modern law ) Baron Berners.

Leno also appeared in burlesque and, every year from 1888 to 1904, in the Drury Lane Theatre's Christmas pantomime spectacles.

Years later James Lavelle resurrected his career by getting him, alongside Ben Drury, to produce the artwork for several releases on Mo ' Wax records ; this also led to Futura producing the imagery which has largely defined Lavelle's Unkle project.

Drury also presided over the school throughout the 1920s and 1930s during what August Hecksher called the school's “ Augustan era .”

Drury also arranged for a grant for unknown researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best who would go on to discover insulin.

Drury also arranged for a grant for unknown researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best who would go on to discover insulin.

Drury also alienated industrialists and many workers by battling with Sir Adam Beck and his plans for expansion of the province's hydro-electric system.

Drury High School and also the provincial E. C. Drury School for the Deaf, both in Milton, Ontario.

Within three days, Sir William Drury wrote to London that although the manner of things appeared to be forcible, it was known to be otherwise.

Beginning in 1932, the cousins wrote four novels using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross about Drury Lane, a Shakespearean actor who had retired from the stage due to deafness and was consulted as an amateur detective.

While at Drury Lane, Steele wrote and directed The Conscious Lovers, which was an immediate hit.

At a dinner to celebrate Pitt's birthday in 1802, Canning wrote the song ‘ The Pilot that Weathered the Storm ’, performed by a tenor from Drury Lane, Charles Dignum:

Burney wrote some music for Thomson's Alfred, which was produced at Drury Lane theatre on 30 March 1745.

He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his " miserable mutilation "

After his performance in London at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1802, the Morning Chronicle wrote that " It is to be regretted that his associations in the country prevent him from accepting a permanent engagement in London.

During the debate on whethar or not Canada should install American-operated nuclear-tipped Bomarc missiles in the 1960s, Drury wrote " the next government of Canada ... should refuse to accept nuclear arms.

Warren Cole wrote to Drury asking if he was interested in forming a Greek-letter society.

Kretzmer later wrote ( with composer Laurie Johnson ) the lyrics for a large-scale comedy spoof, The Four Musketeers, which ran for more than a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as the swordsman d ' Artagnan.

In 1723, he wrote the music for Harlequin Dr. Faustus ( text, such as it was, by Barton Booth ) at Drury Lane.

From 1723 to 1733, Carey was the " unofficial composer in residence " for Drury Lane, and he wrote and performed much of the music between acts, preludes, and epilogue music, as well as the music called for by dances and other entertainments in the plays ( Gillespie 127 ).

He adapted the words for a selection from Italian and German composers ( subsequently published by the cathedral organist, James Corfe ) and wrote a number of Pastorals ( pastiches of various-mostly Italian-works ), one of which was produced by David Garrick at Drury Lane under the title The Spring.

He enjoyed some reputation as a versifier, some of his lines being even mistaken for the work of Alexander Pope, greatly to the disgust of the latter ; and he wrote the lyrics incorporated in a comic opera, adapted from Richard Brome's The Jovial Crew, which was produced at Drury Lane in 1730 and had a considerable vogue.

He wrote the libretto of an oratorio Zimri in 1760, and the next year Edgar and Emmeline: a Fairy Tale was produced at Drury Lane.

Michael Drury, on 25 February 2011 in a letter to the Irish Times wrote, " Official circles in Ireland recognised that Dr Hempel behaved correctly throughout his mission, given the narrow limits of his position.

Subscribers included the Earl and Countess of Burlington as well as other aristocracy ; a number of academics and organists ; taverns such as The Devil and The Globe in Fleet Street where concerts were held ; the actor David Garrick ( who produced many of Shakespeare's plays at Drury Lane ) and some of the other Vauxhall musicians, including Valentine Snow for whom Handel wrote his famous trumpet solos ; several composers including Thomas Arne and William Boyce ( who both worked for Garrick at Drury Lane, composing music for many of his productions ), Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Geminiani.

He also wrote pieces " to order " for favourite performers at the Drury Lane Theatre, such as the musical comedian Richard " Dicky " Suett, for whom he wrote the musical farce " My Grandmother ".

In 1825 Bishop was induced by Robert Elliston to transfer his services from Covent Garden to the rival house in Drury Lane, for which he wrote the opera Aladdin, based on the story from 1001 Nights.