DRURY 



DRUSES 



Alfred Drury, 

 British artist 



Academy was 

 Silenus, 1885; 



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Drury, ALFRED. British artist 

 and sculptor. Born in London, he 

 studied at the Oxford School of Art, 

 at S. Kensing- 

 ton, and under 

 Dalou. He was 

 firot attracted 

 to sculpture by 

 the clay models 

 o f Chantrey 's 

 works in the 

 Oxford Univer- 

 s i t y galleries. 

 His first contri- 

 bution to the 

 the Triumph of 

 and in 1896 his 

 bronze S. Agnes was bought for 

 the Chantrey collection. He was 

 elected A.R.A. in 1900, and R.A. 

 in 1913. His other works include 

 The Age of Innocence, 1897; 

 The Prophetess of Fate, 1900; 

 King Edward VII, 1903; and 

 statues and decorative work at 

 Leeds. His technique is best shown 

 in ideal portraits of children. 



Drury Lane. Thoroughfare and 

 district in London, W.C., largely 

 rebuilt in recent years. Extending 

 from the modern crescent of Aid- 

 wych (q.v.) to Broad Street, S. 

 Giles's, and High Holborn, the 

 lane was originally known as the 

 Via de Aldwych, after a Danish 

 settlement in S. Clement's, which 

 it linked with the hospital of S. 

 Giles's monastery. Its present 

 name derives from Drury Place, a 

 mansion built in the loth century 

 by a member of the Drury family. 

 In this mansion Essex and his fol- 

 lowers planned the abortive rising 

 of 1600. Rebuilt by William, earl 

 of Craven, supposed husband of 

 Elizabeth, the widowed queen of 

 Bohemia and daughter of James I, 

 the mansion was renamed Craven 

 House, and on its site in 1 805 Philip 

 Astley built the Olympia Pavilion, 

 later the Olympic Theatre. ^ . 



On the W. side of Drury Lane, 

 in Russell Street, is Drury Larie 

 Theatre, with entrances in Russell 

 Street and Catherine Street, and 

 near by is the disused burial ground 

 of S. Martin's, associated with 

 Tom-All- Alone' s of Dickens's novel. 

 Bleak House. Near Holborn, on the 

 E., is the Winter Garden Theatre, 

 formerly The Mogul, and fvfterwards 

 the Middlesex music hall. A serv- 



ing man of the ancient inn near 

 here, The White Hart, gave first 

 warning of the outbreak of the 

 plague which started in the vicinitv 

 in 1665. In the adjacent coaf- 

 yard was born Nell Gywnn, who 

 later lived at a house in Drury 

 Court, pulled down in 1891. Drury 

 Lane was also the birthplace o'f 

 Anne Clarges, afterwards duchess 

 of Albemarle. On the E. side, S. 

 of Great Queen Street, was Cockpit 

 Alley, later Pit Place. A cockpit 

 was here, as were the Cockpit and 

 Phoenix theatres. 



Once lined with hedgerows and 

 houses of the nobility, Drury Lane 

 became in the 18th century a place 

 of ill repute, its mazy courts and 

 dark abodes the theme of satiric 

 reference by Gay, Steele, Pope, and 

 others, while it was the scene of 

 Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, Lewk- 

 nor's Lane, renamed Charles Street, 

 N. of Parker Street, being especi- 

 ally notorious. Of notable residents 

 were the poet Donne, who found 

 hospitality in Drury House ; Wil- 

 liam Alexander, earl of Stirling ; 

 Elliston, when lessee of the Olym- 

 pic ; Thomas Campbell, in Vinegar 

 Yard ; Charles and Mary Lamb, in 

 Russell Court ; and the actresses 

 Anne Braceeirdle, whom Lord 



don playhouse. The first theatre 

 on the site of the present building 

 was erected in IGtil, and opened 

 April 8, 1663, by the King's Ser- 

 vants one of Charles II's two com- 

 panies of players under Thomas 

 Killigrew, with Beaumont and 

 Fletcher's play, The Humorous 

 Lieutenant. This theatre was burnt 

 down in 1672. Sir Christopher 

 Wren designed its successor, which 

 was replaced in 1794 by a much 

 larger edifice, also destnwed by 

 fire in 1809. 



Benjamin Wyatt was the archi- 

 tect of the 4th and present theatre, 

 opened Oct. 12, 1812. It was 

 on its boards that Edmund Kean 

 achieved his first great triumph on 

 Jan. 26, 1814, and there he ap- 

 peared for the last time, March 12, 

 1833. Drury Lane won new pres- 

 tige from Macready's brief manage- 

 ment during 1842-43. It was here 

 that he produced Browning's The 

 Blot on the 'Scutcheon. Under the 

 management of Augustus Harris, 

 and afterwards of Arthur Collins, 

 the huge building was associated 

 with immensely popular panto- 

 mimes and spectacular melo- 

 dramas, and here in 1917 Sir 

 Thomas Beecham began a series of 

 seasons of grand opera. The 

 theatre was reconstructed and re- 

 organized in 1921-22 and was 

 opened on April 20, 1922, with 

 Decameron Nights, a spectacular 

 musical play. 



Druse (Ger., decayed ore). Cav- 

 ity in an igneous rock or ore-vein 

 which is lined or studded with mi- 

 nute crystals. The Cornish miners 

 call it a vug. This drusy condition 

 may also appear on the surface of 

 natural crystals. Beautiful crystals 

 of quartz, beryl, topaz, tourmaline, 

 garnet, and other minerals are fre- 

 quently derived from granite druses. 

 When globular nodules are hollow 

 and drusy-lined they are called 

 geodes (earth-like). 



Druses. Syrian people in- 

 habiting the W slope of Lebanon, 

 anti-Lebanon and Hermon, and 

 Hauran (Druz). Occupying some 



Mohun attempt- 

 ed to abduct 

 from her dwell- 

 ing here, and 

 Hannah Prit- 

 chard. See Lon- 

 don; consult also 

 Old Time Ald- 

 wych and Kings - 

 way, C. Gordon, 

 1903; illus. of 

 Craven House, in 

 Londiniana, vol. 

 iv, PI W. Bray- 

 Icy, 1829. 



Drury Lane 

 Theatre. Lon- 



Drury Lane Theatre. Main entrance in Catherine 

 Street. Above, frontage of the old theatre in 1776 



