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... enough term. Is it not contempt of Court to wink at a judge openly like that The Canterbury 'Pilgrims was brought out at Drury Lane on Monday, and has stamped Mr. C. 'Villiers Stanford as the English opera composer of the dai. Its success, and the reasons ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STAGE WHISPERS

... week to appear with his Mastodon Minstrels. This must surely be a misprint for 60. They open in London on May 31, at the Drury Lane Theatre. The rep ort proceeds, This is the largest salary ever paid a minstrel. So I should think, or anyone else, save ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2794 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

t Wl' • * i • Sarah Bernhardt refused the other day to play in Mons. Busnach's new drama

... cabled to New York that Lotta, asked by the secretary of the Theatrical Fund to lend her services for the fund benefit at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, did not reply to his letter. Her action is said to have caused much adverse conuncut. Henry Irving is seriously ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3765 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

It STAGE WHISPERS

... WHISPERS. When I state that 'IA Sailor and His lAis, which is being played at the Royal this week, is one of Augustus Harris's Drury Lane summiatia, I shall have said a good deal in the way of description. This isn't the first of them we've had down here, and ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3918 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

state on the question of dramatic copyright, and I can't help thinking if the law of common sense had been

... are at the Alexandra, Liverpool, this week, but make room for Mary Anderson on Monday. Carl Rosa concluded his salmon at Drury Lane last Saturday, and opened at the Court. Liverpool, Monday, with Carmen. The Liverpudlians are not to Vi I liers Stanford's ...

Published: Sunday 18 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

STAGE WHISPERS

... Alhambra with itssplendid traditions of spectacular magnificence, or the more recent lavish expenditure iu this respect at Drury Lane. But as a play (save the mark), in any but the most insensate sense, it is happily without a rival; for, of all the ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4101 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... everybody. Oh, indeed; I beg your pardon ! had a short run during the last pantomime season, the phrase emanating from Drury Lane Theatre; but it never was bandied about half as much as What! never? Well, hardly ever, from Pinafore, and even that ...

Published: Sunday 08 June 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1073 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... been satisfactory.—The presence of mind displaTed by Ilaverley's cornermen during the gas explosion which occurred at Drury Lane Theatre on Wednesday afternoon, ought not to be passed over without mention. In the midst of Emerson and Sweetman's business ...

Published: Sunday 08 June 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2824 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... The Maid of the Oaks, written for the occasion by General Burgoyne, son-in-law of Earl Derby, was afterwards performed at Drury Lane. So much for history; now for the present state of the Oaks. I have been favoured with a copy of the auditory of sale ...

Published: Sunday 15 June 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JOHN PALMER AND HIS DEATH UPON THE STAGE

... he had to be taken to and fro concealed in some theatrical property. When the farce of The Prize was having a run at Drury Lane, Doctor Lenitive's box, an important property in one of the scenes, was used to convey him to the theatre, and to hie residence ...

Published: Sunday 22 June 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STAGE WHISPERS

... evening bills drawing crowded houses. Augustus Harris has secured the services of Fanny Leslie for his next pantomime at Drury Lane. The music for the Alhambra revival of Black-Eyed Susan will be supplied by Alfred Lee and Jacobi conjointly. The cast ...

Published: Sunday 06 July 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3578 | Page: 3 | Tags: none