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MR. PEEL

... Peel, You sit there majestic and mild; And Labbys and Tanners, you teach them good manners, In epigrams worthy of Wilde, Oscar Wilde, And are best when your ruling's reviled. And when Gladstone has pillowed his head, Mr. Peel, When Gladstone has nightcapped ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE STAGE AND SOCIETY

... plays. Our playwrights were playwrights still. The only man of letters who had shown himself a successful dramatist was Mr. Oscar Wilde. His Woman Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan were masterpieces of the stage. Of the other playwrights, Mr. took first ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF AN OXFORD B.A

... stated to insane, and was bound over to keep the peace for two months, his security being £200, which sum was lodged by Oscar Wilde and H. H. Champion. During his imprisonment college friend wrote stating that when first knew had a fortune £20,000, and ...

Published: Monday 23 July 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF AN OXFORD B.A

... was stated to insane, and was bound over to keep the peace for two months, his security being £200, which sum was lodged Oscar Wilde and H. H. Champion. During his imprisonment a ccllege friend wrote stating that when he first knew he had a fortune of £20 ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

MAN'S BEST COMPANION

... Mr. Barrie. not being smoker, tha voiiD dramatist could not puff his cigarette tbe face of ImTaudienje after manner Mr. Oscar Wilde for Mr. Barrio is persistent smoker that he has his portrait taken with a in his month. Dean Aldrich smoked all hours. A ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... recently concluded visit she is said to have declared with conviction that the only two attractive men in London are Mr. Oscar Wilde and Mr. Isidore De Lara. ...

Published: Monday 05 February 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A NEW PLAY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

... life to quench her thirst at a stagnant and other characters indulge iv philosophical reflections which should cure Mr. Oscar Wilde of the practice for ever and day. Your greatest philologist,'' says Dr. Neill, is usually your greatest ass, and the ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WANGLER

... Haymarket will be opened on Tye'. day,Aanuary 1, under the joint management of H. El:Morel' and Lewis Waller. A new play by Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, will be the first attraction submitted—The Olympic having failed as a two-houses-a-night variety ball ...

Published: Sunday 30 December 1894
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WIVES OF LITERARY MEN

... demonstrated to the young couple. Mrs. Haggard's mother's family were tiie Hamiltons, Norfolk, during many years tho cavaliers. Oscar Wilde lias just such wife suits a man of his nature. She is a pretty woman, loves gowns that cling rather than hang, is aesthetic ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

THE EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 1894 Lord Randolph Churchill is losing caste at a rapid rate, and is also

... works, at a time when the stage is sadly in need of something more wholesome than Mr. Pinero. Mr. Sydney Grundv, or Mr. Oscar Wilde seems disposed to write. The hero of the great pugilistic fizzle at Jacksonville, Florida, a few months ago, will probably ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... before, revived interest the woman with a Past, a theme dealt with and exhausted M. Dumas and Emile Augier years ago. Mr. Oscar Wilde had toyed with the subject Woman cf Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. A Bunch of Violets, by Mr. Sydney Grundy ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 803 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... audience were necessarily familiar with the play, and yet the usual habitues were there, such as Sir Edward Clarke and Mr. Oscar Wilde, watching the stsgo as keenly as if the production had the charm of novelty. Mr. Irving was in superb voice—a welcome variant ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1006 | Page: 2 | Tags: none