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THE REFRESHMENT COUNTERS

... with saphires and rubies and pearls. Take a queen from a twelfth cake, add to her the leading fairy in the pantomime at Drury Lane, and sprinkle with a few ornaments from the court circle at Madame Tussaud's, and you have the young lady at the counter ...

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE

... Bench, on Thursday in last week, the case of Chatterts,n v. Reeves was heard. This was an action brought by the lessee of Drury - lane Theatre against Mr. Sims Reeves for the breac of a contract to act and sing in the opera of Rob Roy at the rate of 40 ...

THE NEWBURY WEEKLY NEWS

... by the Central American Association in London, on Saturday evening. The action brought by Mr. F. B. Chatterton, lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, in London, against Mr. Sims Reeves, for breach of contract, he not having, according to an agreement entered into ...

The folkwing China telegram, dated Penang, August 9, was- published on Friday morning :— Serious coolie riots h ..

... of, it was ascertained that one of the jurors, who had been sworn as a Frederick Lee, harness maker, of Brownlow-street, Drury Lane, was not that individual but his foreman. The Recorder said that both these persons had been guilty of flagrant con- tempt ...

ME NEWBURY WEEKLY NEW&

... Central Criminal Court, in London, it was discovered that one of the jurymen, instead of being Mr. Frederick Lee, a saddler in Drury-lane, who had been summoned, was merely his locum tenens in the shape of his foreman. The Recorder stigmatised this proceedin_f ...

GARIBALDI AS A PRISONER

... sign from his master the man took off his livery coat, waistcoat, and trousers, and appeared in the complete costume of a Drury-lane clown, with a red tuft, white collar, baggy breeches, &c. Heat once sat down upon the floor and went through a number of ...

that lie thr Grand Lodge of New York it we its great influenos e with the Grand Lodges- of the-

... Amphitheatre .. —.Sept. 17, 1794 Astley's (2nd time) ..Sept. 1, 1803 Surrey Theatre Covent Garden Theatre Drury Lane Theatre Royalty Theatre April 11, 1826 English Opera House Feb. 16, 1830 Astley's Amphitheatre (3rd time) June 8 ...

price. TWO FAMOUS ACTRESSES

... to Fair Star and Maria Darlington. Both ladies passed to Drury-lane, and ended at the Olympic. One made some noise in the world, and Covent Garden admirers applauded her, while those of Drury Lane were hissing Edmund Kean for the same sort of not very exemplary ...

TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF THE ASSASSIN

... Club Ailed the moment the rumour got abroad, and many other clubs a similar interest was manifested. In the evening, at Drury Lane, at the Queen's, at the Hayniarket, end other heatres, the national anthem was sung, the audiences displayed great enthusiasm ...

THE NEWBURY WEEKLY NEWS

... services of two real Chinese youths to w but their illness prevented the idea being It was then suggested to him that two r Drury Lane Theatre might be secured'_ of Aladdin as substitutes, but that was The dinner, under the direction of that vv bleu Framatelli ...

I.WRITIW WEEKLY NEW&

... positively declaring that he had been beaten by a ghost.--Cork A FAIR DIVISION !—ln the early display of Garrick's powers at Drury Lane, a tragedy was brought forward, in which he sustained the principal character of an aged king. Though there was nothing ...

THE NEWRITRY VvhhKLY NEW&

... that purpose he had obtained the loan of a Directory, leaving two sovereigns as security for Its return. We then went to Drury-lane Theatre, and came back about twelve o'clock, and the prisoner stayed all night with use, as I have already mentioned. We ...