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THE THEATRES

... inefficient. By means of this comedy we t learn the important fact that Miss Fowler, who plays the tamed shrew, is really an actress from whom something may be expected. But why did Mr. Reeve make his e piece fill three acts One act showing the lady's malady ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1018 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... this had no other merit, it has that of making the London public acquainted with the talent of one of the most charming actresses ever seen upon the modern stage. She is exhibited under two aspects. Under one, as the beloved of Courtenay, whose passion ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2144 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... to be, we under stand, be produced on the 16th inst. The part of the heroine will be sustained by Miss Bessie Mordaunt, an actress new to London, but well known in the provinces. ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 624 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... e on Monday evening in the stalls. The Holborn follows in the foot steps of Mr. Byron with a drama, of which actors and actresses, dramatic agency office keepers, and every other of those classes who mourned for the death of the singer Tigellus, form ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1305 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THEATRES

... are even well known to the French public. Frou-Frou was pro duced on Monday, without the aid of even one of the actors or actresses of the original cast but, on the whole, the performance was something more than re spectable. The way in which the dialogue ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 977 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC

... conceived and artistically worked out. In this act, if nowhere else, Madame Lucca establishes her claim to be considered a great actress. She never was a finished singer, and never will be, but she sings well enough to satisfy a public whom her acting charms ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2199 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC

... master of Nilsson and Trebelli. But it was reserved for Le Nozze to show that Mdlle. Lewitzky is not less promising as an actress than as a vocalist. She took what seems to us the exact view of how Cherubino should be played neither, on the one hand, making ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1432 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... heroine of La Grand Duchesse is the fashion, and her patrons do not begrudge guinea stalls to the weak songstress but clever actress who has taken her place in our midst again. The exception to the dearth of novelty to which we have alluded, is that of a ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 814 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... lesques. Her uncompromising make up as a genuine gargon d'auberge with none of those little coquetries which inferior actresses, when they perform the part of a boy, can never resolve to be without, was in itself a go od token. The French lad's restless ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1202 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... muster even a momentary faith in the doings or sayings of its dramatis personce. Still it was no doubt judicious for the actress to take her farewell in one of the old pieces identified with her name. Madame Celeste's acting, it may be remarked, has neither ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 858 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... strong, has become sadly thin and her movements have a languor certainly more sugges tive than herfaceof the septuagenarian actress. For all this, however, she can amuse her singing is still so careful and so clever in the way of emphasising points, that ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1148 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRES

... Miss Geraldine Weston, who sustains the part of Adina, is understood to be an American young lady. Both as a singer and an actress, she is a decided gain to the London stage. ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1075 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review