Refine Search

Newspaper

Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Access Type

28,103

Type

11,911
10,460
5,370
361
1
More details

Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

OUGHT WE TO VISIT HER?

... OUGHT WE TO VISIT HER! Ought We to Visit her? the piece de résistance in the present programme of the Royalty Theatre, presided over by Miss H. Hodson, is an agreeable and amusing comedy, adapted with no little skill and tact from Mrs. Edwards' novel ...

MISS WALLIS

... her to Mr. Byder, to judge if she really possessed tho necessary talent. Mr. Byder was. then stage manager of the Queen's Theatre, Long Acta, and there he took her privately on the stage, when she was not a little startled at the appearance of the house ...

MR. W. S. GILBERT

... acquaintance of the lato T. W. Robertson, through whoso recommendation to Miss Horbert (then manageress of tho St. James's Theatre) he owed the production of his first piece, a burlesque on the Elixir of Love, entitled Dulcamara. This was produced on the ...

MARY QUEEN O' SCOTS

... out of place. We should conceive that rigid Pres byterians of tho -John Knox type are not in the habit of patronising the theatre to an overwhelming extent, and as all the pretty rebukes of fanatical intolerance are placed in the mouth of the beautiful ...

COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO MR. B. WEBSTER

... benefit to Mr. Benjamin Webster on his retirement from manage ment, to take place on Monday afternoon next at Drury Lane Theatre. Within a few days after the first announce ment, almost the whole of tho tickets were subscribed for, uiul tiiose returned ...

Musical Intelligence

... which has not been performed in England during the last sixty years, will be produced, with the original text, at a London theatre in April next. Wallace's Maritana has been translated into Italian by Signor Zaffira, the recitatives being set to music hy ...

Advertisements

... 7#. 6(7. per plank, livery description of Gilt Mouldings at the lowest prices. GEO. BEES, 57, Drury Lnnc (opjxi.-iti- the Theatre). rjlBELOAE LAND SONS. XI S Y R I A N C A BTETI pERSIAN RUGS AND KELIMS. rp u R K E Y CARPETS. HP RELOAR AND S0N S MANUFACTURERS ...

ELDORADO

... ELDORADO. AFTER running for an unprecedentedly lengthened period, Nemesis was withdrawn from the stage of the Strand Theatre on Thursday week in favour of a piece similarly fashioned, also from the pen of Mr. H. B. Farnie. The little house was crowded ...

Musical Memoranda

... Enequist's Concert, St. George's Hall, at S-30. Signor Monari-Rocca's Benefit performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, St. James's Theatre, at S. Wednesday. London Ballad Concert, St. James's Hall. Mdlles. A.Williams and Sterling, MM. Vernon Rigby, Fox, and Guy ...

The Drama

... the melo drama of Rip Van Winkle, in which Mr. Charles Rice (formerly of the London boards, and now lessee of the Bradford Theatre, who has succeeded tho late Mr. Augustus Harris as entrepreneur of the Christmas entertainment at Covent Garden), personated ...

OLYMPIC THEATRE

... OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS elegant house, over tho fortunes of which Mr. Henry Neville so worthily presides, has been associated in past years with more than one success in the direc tion of the legitimate drama and the present lessee has, therefore, only ...