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FRAUDS BY MUSICAL AGENTS IN New York

... speakout? Willthe Tribtine speak out? Will the inmea speak nit? Will the Couriet' and Enquoirer, the Joernal of Commerce, the .Ccmmercial Advertiser, and the Express speak out? Will the Home foernal speak out? Will the Sunday press speak out ...

Published: Sunday 11 September 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1105 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Present State of the Drama

... hissed down. (Laughter and cheers.) Bad actors must be condemned. (Cheers.) Be wished he could speak better, but his excuse must be that hisforte was to speak the words of others. lie thanked them sincerely for the honour of conneoting his name with the ...

Lecture by Lola Montes

... sablime Milton, in which he speaks of woman as Fair, no doubt, and worthy well Thy oherilshing, thy honour, aned thy love, Not thy subjectiom.' Lola considered the English, Irish, and Scotch women to be thle hand- somest. Speaking of beauty, she gave the ...

Published: Sunday 23 August 1857
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 654 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PRESENT STATE of the DRAMA

... ought to be grateful to Mr. M. for speaking out at such a time, and endeavouring to make the Stratford pilgrimage an agent of good for the modern stage. With regard to the modern race of actors I may, as a layman, speak, if not more freely, at all events ...

Published: Sunday 22 May 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2562 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Present State of the Drama

... British public on this account. I speak this comparatively, fully appreciative of Mr. Tom Taylor's admirable production. I now come to the melancholy reflection there are not in London a dozen individuals capable of speaking the Queen's English. Really ...

Published: Sunday 15 May 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2045 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... he saw in the Old Country, and such as everybody will read with pleasure, and many with profit. It is amusing to find one speaking our own lan- guage, and having an origin in common with us, regard- ing us as foreigners, and describing even a donkey cart ...

Published: Sunday 18 July 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA AT Manchester

... sixpetriy gallery, shilling pit, one shillinig and sixpence upper circles, and half a-crown dress or lower circle. Such facts speak for themselves. The scenery is chaste, and the machinery works like clock-work. Mr. Lupino is highly relished as Harlequin ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... dwells strongly-but he cannot dwell too strongly- on the necessity of daily personal cleanliness and the use of the bath, and speaks warmly in favour of those invaluable institutions of the list few years, Pueblic Baths and Washlhouses. It is scarcely necessary ...

Published: Sunday 01 May 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1717 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA AT Drury-lane

... single fact that he could not speak English, and that Mr. Slomas could speak nothing but English, was sufficient to show that no conversation 'of the kind'could ever have passed between theni. Madame Caradori could only speak the English languagevry imperfectly ...

Published: Sunday 03 September 1854
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3520 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... know much of French words and little of French phrases, while an acquaintance with the latter is necessary to all who would speak the language, and sufficient for general purposes. Indeed, an adult has only to master a string of common sentences, and he ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Opera Company at Leicester

... the other performers we cannot say much; of course we must not forget to speak an approving word for Henry Corri; he is 00 vigorous and as enlivening as ever. We could not speak in too high praises of his acting; he has a reputation in that department ...

Published: Sunday 02 May 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAWA AT Manchester

... The.Panto- mime, we understand, is from the pen of Mr. Cbambers, the respected treasurer of the establishment, and rumour speaks higtsly of its excellence. .lttnf fr). ?? 1L M___ -- -- T__ .WUEBuN's T'sATRE.-in the absence of the irregular- regular company ...

Published: Sunday 07 December 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture