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THEATRICALS, &c

... T.RFEATRICALS, &c. D- HAYMARKET,-A now comedy, in five acts, is, at all times, a subject of interest; but the production of a cosoedy which will last, is a matter of astonishment and public congratulation. The want of dramatic ability, in a tangible shape, is sometimes said to be the fault of themanagers, who refnsc to encouragethe legitimate drama, preferring rather to please the eye than to ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... I (EXCLUSIVE.) FOREIGNx LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC.-Three weeks' confinement to a sick chamber will, I am sure, be received as a sufficient apology for my three weeks silence. The malady having at last received its congde, I shall, I trust, be enabled to send you my usual budget of continental chit chat about plays and players, lyrics and librettos,ballets and ballerines, managers and melodramas, ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1846
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6368 | Page: Page 9, 10, 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE COURT AND FASHION

... i The Royal family have talken their usual exercise during the week, when the state of the weather per. mitted their so doing. The Royal dinner parties have been attended by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the lady in waiting of the Duchess of Ken', the lady in wait. ing of the Duchess of Gloucester, the Baroness de Speth, Viscount ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1846
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1263 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... I I [FROeM OUR owrN CORRESPONDENTS.j 3SiGrTOX.N.Mr. Hooper has afforded the theatrical going t41e a rich treat by the engagement, for three nigats, of ic eestris, Mr. C. Matthews, and Mr. John Parry. They ^itneed en Wednesday evening, when the house was td to suffocation. That admirable and entertaining piece ti t8relup'f opened the performances, and it is almost need- iii add, that Mr. C. ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1846
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... ' IGNEZ nE CAI eO- A Tragedy in Five Acts. By the author of Rural Sonnets. Hurst, King Williantstreet, Strand.-It, un- fortunately, seldom falls to our lot to read a play of modern produc- lion that We ca greet with a hearty welcome. Some of them are tolerable as closet plays, containing good sentiment, aad conveying it in good, and sometimes highly poetic, langeage, but laclcinig all else ...

BRAZILS

... tt I* . , , i-IUIOIjTH, NoVBMBSa 9 Her Majesty packet Seagull, Lieut. arrived from Kio de Janeiro, September » . it' v 17 ; Peraambueo, '29. PassengersMcmm' ' Field and wife, Ferrar, Cumberland, and Captain Key, R.N., and M«. steerage passengers: and freight, in -old jL monds, 43,000/., more or less. 0 d dla Nothing of importance from Kio Janeiro or the nothern provinces. Her Majesty's ship ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR NOVEMBER

... THgE MfAGAZifNERS FOR NO0VEMlBER'.t Blaclirood's Magazzine.-ln the present number of .Blgckwsode there are several practical papers of more than ordinary value, and one or two essaiys ou learned subjects, wvhich wvill be highly aecceptable to thle man of letters ; but there i3 a deficiency of wvhat to the g eneral reader is moth1 mtore attractive,g~oo verse andjpleastitt narrative. The ...

ADELPHI THEATRE

... A DELPHII THEATRE. +4 Gisefle, after having been served up nt all tbe theatres, metropolitan and provincial, in almcst every imaginable faoshioi, after havinlg been allowed to grow cold, and having been halshed and stewed, and wnrmed and hnshed again, was, last night, produced at thle Adeiphi in an entirelv new dressi-that of a semi-burlesque faiiry spectacle, with the title of Tlce P/inteanto ...

MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE

... MUVS'ICAL IVTELL] G ENCE. n. M. JL'LLT.EN5'S Coxsc ?? Gardlen Theatre ce WIIs, if possible, more erowded last n~igiht than at tie open- 9i ingr concert. The attractionl was J ulliil 's snew ca ilatry to quaidrille, The 13ritish Armyv, whieh wvas receiv d with n- vocifeurouis clcecrng. The liduater bu~d ssilfully cl,-seu his id themes fiorn valrious composere, ?? he bad not forgotten tto ...

Rome.— (From a Correspondent)—l Tory indisposed to find fr.ult with anything going on in the Papal States. The ..

... dispositions of the Tope realh seem to promise important and beneficial change*. Popular frenzy still continues. The slightest movements of his £2- are the observed of all observers, and nightly almost ii he called to the balcony of his Palace in the Quirinal to give the Bcnedizione. The whole weight of government seems to depend on his single head. All the cardinals opposed to him except ...

LITERATURE

... LITERATU?p. _ _ Tfie Science o9f (Gunnery. By W. G REENDrER, C F.19 - Ntew Editionl. [Chiirtonl. M\r. Greener is an authxority entitled to be ?? wvithl respect tijoon guns nnd gun-mlakingr, thoughl it is to bc regretted that he has not the povrer ot' ex(- 4fi pressing his ideas withX greater precision, Somne ot' h 1is speculationls on inceasing dieC force of projectiles 1 this byv a miorc ...

MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE

... MUlSICAL IN~T'ELLiGENCE. | }H1I.5OA ?? SocamrY.- *.t thle general meeting Of Ithe members, en Monday last, the nights for the series of concerts, in 1847, were fixed as follows -M~onidays, March 15th and 29th, April 1 't1 , 26th, Moay I 0th, 24t1h, June 7th and 2lut. Messrs. J. ?? T1erry and li. J. Pyc were elected associates. 'The directors fer 1,547 are Mlessrs. Anderson, Lucas, James Calkhe ...