... as Dickens’s. There is, moreover, Mr. Draper, the author of the successful pantomine performed by the amateurs lately at Drury Lane. With such a staff, the Comic Timet ought to sell; but will it? Undoubtedly, yes. Will it ultimately pay ? No. Whilst writing ...

... E. T. Smith, the English Barnum, to a number of medical gentlemen and persons connected with the press, in the saloon of Drury-lane Theatre. The children, it must avowed, do not seem all the worse in health, intelligence, or happiness, for the extraordinary ...

... out-door amusements. Mr. Stammers’s scheme, in continuation of that first started by Mr. E. T. Smith—of popularising good music Drury Lane—bids fair to be very successful. He gires his audience good operas, good performers, good singers, at astonishingly low ...

... succeeded in bringing them to London. The men were to have £5 each, and Mr. Thompson and Mr. E. T. Smith (the lessee of Drury Lane, Vaushall, &c.), were pleased with the successful issue of the journey, that they made Langham present of £l5 additional ...

... proposed scheme be successful when others have failed? National operas, unfortunately, not pay : they have been tried at Drury Lane, at this very Lyceum (which in fact started under the name of the English Opera House), and partially at the Princess’s ...

... in the annals of Italian brigandage.] A Giant in Difficulty.—Hales, Norfolk Giant, who lias been keeping public house in Drury Lane, London, (for the house does not it seems keep him) has been recently before the Insolvent Court. In answer to question ...

... to the adverse majorities of which Sir K. Peel was forced to succumb in the space of two months. The Lady tiif. Lions at Drury Lane.—Our readers will remember the appearance of Van Amburgh, who travelled over the country exhibiting marvellous powers in ...

... possibly have to answered by the Legislature. The Registrar-General having made his report in which one instance (Wild-court, Drury Lane), is adduced of the positive diminution of the number of deaths indneed by sanitary reform, the writer comments on this ...

... front the Hook of Series of in the Room. “All’s Well that Ends Well. when revived with some but not important alterations at Drury-lane, in the spring of 1742, brought misfortune to the actors. Mrs. Woffington w.is seized with sudden illness: s she stood the ...

... back him in Lord Ward)? or will he and Gye join their energies in the undertaking ? Her Majesty could not certainly go to Drury Lane, while Mr. E. T. Smith is the lessee, that is, for the present, out of the question ; (or that gentleman too decidedly insulted ...

... •' old familiar faces to your humble servant, all unknown to fame and the public. Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. E. T. Smith of Drury Lane and the Sunday Times, and the jocose John Parry, too, were there. The actors of course came out in tremendous force—Phelps ...

... performances, the second performance realising more than They are, I hear, about shortly to give a third performance at Drury Lane. They must look sharp if they would have any their aristocratic supporters left in London, The life and soul of this at ...