DRURY LANE GHOST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

DRURY LANE GHOST

It Disappeared After Bomb Dropped

JjRCRY LANK T H LATHE has a very famous ghost, writes the well-known London journalist. Mr. ('live Mac.Manns. It lias been walking every night tor ages, and not just once a week on Fridays. Now a strange thing has happened. A bomb hit Ihe theatre not very long ago-—and the ghost has not. been seen since. Lor generations sober people connected with t,hat theatre have lieen swearing that they have seen Horace. ;is the ghost is called. Some see him reguiarlv. Some almost like him. Nobody Knows his cronies say ilint his nightly stroll i* ironi the pass door across to a wall .ill the opposite side of t lie auditorium. I]i' then disappears through the wall. Which seems lair enough. One executive of the theatre, who has seen Horace so olteu that he regards him as an old friend, refuses to believe that tin- bomb has seared liim a \n ay. "Nothing yet lias seared him away —. nut. even some ol our less successlul productions, he'll he back again.'

No out 1 knows whoso if is. Dip stun uors I hill holies wriv 11)1111(1 in a hriekcd-up room behind the "all through which it walks, and there was a danger si irking at the hack oi the skeleton. Inn there is nothing in !b< • arclini's ol tin- theatre to explain the mystery. One theory is that a yoiin>z man rami' to London Imm the country, pestered an actress with his attentions, and was disposed ol by her Iriends.