Letter: The money for the Baylis dream From: The Independent - London | Date: March 8, 1996| Author: Ian Albery | Copyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Sir: Peggy England (letter, 29 February) queried the costs of running Sadler's Wells and suggested that in the 1930s all the money came from the box office. This is not so. Lilian Baylis struggled against all the odds to keep Sadler's Wells open, while many artists worked for love or little better to keep her dream alive. Major public appeals were mounted in the 1930s to build...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Sadler's Wells colt could be worth in excess of pounds 20m.(Sports) The Racing Post (London, England) ; Byline: David Yates VICTORY in Saturday's Vodafone Derby boosted Galileo's estimated value to more than pounds 15 million-with the cost of his services as a stallion put at between pounds 50,000 and pounds 80,000. Bloodstock experts differ as to the worth of the son of Sadler's Wells, but a figure
	Jinx over for Sadler's Wells; When Galileo won Saturday's Derby it ended an unwanted record, says Veritas.(Racing) The Birmingham Post (England) ; Byline: Veritas In the quiet that is normally deafening around the stud farms of racing, one wonders whether Sadler's Wells might have felt a twinge of excitement at around 4pm on Saturday. While he was in his box, waiting for the next mare to arrive - at a cost of about pounds 160,000 - one of his
	Sadler's Wells to sue Royal Opera for pounds 2m The Independent - London ; SADLER'S WELLS plans to sue the beleaguered Royal Opera House for an estimated pounds 2m following the ROH's cancellation of its entire programme for next year. The Sadler's Wells Theatre, which has just been rebuilt at a cost of more than pounds 40m - half of it Lottery money - had expected to
	Nobody tells me anything Suddenly the Royal Opera Company isn't coming. So how will Sadler's Wells fill 100 free nights? The Independent - London ; ... on the day of Sir Colin's bombshell, when Richard Jarman, the interim opera administrator, telephoned to say that he had bad news. By the time Jarman said there would be none at all, Covent Garden had whittled down the number of performances to 51. The difference ...
	Sadler's Wells may sue Opera House closure' The Independent - London ; THE FUTURE of the newly rebuilt Sadler's Wells Theatre in north London is in jeopardy after the Royal Opera House cancelled its programme there, it was claimed yesterday. Sadler's Wells, shocked by the decision of the ROH, has issued a legal letter before action, a preliminary step to suing. Ian
	Racing: Giant's Causeway stakes claim as Sadler's heir.(Sport) The Independent (London, England) ; Byline: Sue Montgomery When a monarch draws near to the end of his reign, thoughts of the succession inevitably become more imperative. And although Sadler's Wells, not only the king of the Coolmore bloodstock empire but the most influential sire of modern times, is still holding court at the Co
	Football: Sadler's warning over duo BLUES NEWS Birmingham Mail ; MAT Sadler has warned Blues to be wary of returning old boys Nicky Forster and Craig Fagan on Saturday. Forster - who is 33 tomorrow - joined St Andrew's opponents Hull City from Ipswich Town for pounds 250,000 before the transfer window closed, while fellow striker Fagan, who progressed through
	Football: Sadler's warning over duo; BLUES NEWS.(Sport) Birmingham Mail (England) ; MAT Sadler has warned Blues to be wary of returning old boys Nicky Forster and Craig Fagan on Saturday. Forster - who is 33 tomorrow - joined St Andrew's opponents Hull City from Ipswich Town for pounds 250,000 before the transfer window closed, while fellow striker Fagan, who progressed through
	Dance: PICK OF THE WEEK - Sadler's Wells various dates London EC1.(Features) The Independent (London, England) ; Byline: John Percival Richard Alston has two London premieres in his company's programme at Sadler's Wells. For Overdrive, the whole troupe pulsates to the urgent rhythms of Terry Riley's Keyboard Studies. Shimmer takes as its starting point two formal pieces by Ravel: Sonatine and Jeux d'eau. With
	The new Sadler's Wells unveiled as dance theatre for millennium The Independent - London ; YOU CAN drink the theatre's own spring water; you can watch multi- media images flicker round the the theatre's own historic well; and if none of that grabs you, then you can watch some dancing. Sadler's Wells reopens tonight as a dance theatre for the millennium: a slightly bizarre mix of

See all results.