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MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL TO THE STAGE

... memorable in the an- IAL nals of the English dramna, took place yesterday even- C ing. Mr. Macready took his pn tirg becefit at Drury lane, and appeared for the lart time, in the character of 'itS Macbeth. The termination of his carer was wortlhy of l or its ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1851
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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THE SEQUEL TO LOTHAIR

... wemi.,tywhispe that the same assistants aeben secured for th, -j future as for the present work- namely, the writer of tlae Drury Lane pantomimes, a gentleman on. the staff of the Court Jetsu-ol. and a cole. bhated mad-doetor who is in the habit of making ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... of German operas given in the Manchester Theatre last season, brought Benjamin Sloman, stage carpenter and machinist, of Drury Lane, before the Bow-street magistrate, on Wednesday last, on a charge of perjury. Slounau had made an affidavit atJudge's Chambers ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: News | Words: 2012 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA

... ignited, streams of life set towards the theatres. The Pantomime was then the Moe object of pursuit. I can only speak of Drury Lane a yet, and there Mr. Smith, as great a master in the l angerial art as Talleyrand in the diplomatic, as usual, Oatsbines ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2036 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE STAGE

... Tragedye was one. When Killigrew, after the Restoration, established the King's Company, and opened a new theatre, in 1665, at Drury Lane, Julius Csesar became one of the stock pieces, and seems to have been constantly played during the reigns of Charles ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1898
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... leaning toward the the exact sciences. has - Mr. Charles Harcourt, the actor, who, whiloe life engaged in rehearsing at Drury Lane last, week fedi poi through a trap door, has died from his injuries. oil MDr. Harcourt p. rforcned in liverpool in Mr. t:aker's ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1880
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ARMY ESTIMATES

... Threadneedle Street, to recover the sum of £1 I2s., being money disbursed in connection with. the letting of a box for Drury Lane Theatre. Mr. George Kebbell, solicitor, of Seething Lale, who appeared for the plaintiff, said the box ill iquestion was ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1884
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... the engagements of the late war. This regsi- ment also possesses a milkwhite gqat, which, on Monday night, performed at Drury Lane Theatre, in the play of Esmeralda.1 They also have a stag, but neither was present at the ?? News. TwE ITALIAN LEGIoN ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA

... the other. Drury Lane may strive to emulate the performances of the theatre on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge, but the theatre on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge never condescends to assume the Protean shapes which Drury Lane has taken on ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2238 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... which embodies all the resources of the 18S so masters of scenic art at Drury Lane. Ac a- I ec The other London pantomime which has of fo late years competed with the Drury-lane one is Mr. Oscar Barrett's, which this season will be Cb ad produced at ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1895
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... announced their intention to attend the performance. a The last occasion on which I saw Mr. Harrison on the c, hoards was at Drury Lane, some tim~o ago. He bad only a just recovered from a severe and serious illness, in which his voice had suffered ; but the ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2164 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

... I acquaintance of such composers as Rossini, I Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Herold, and Auber- superintended the production at Drury Lane of Balfe's Bobemian LGirl, an opera which, -with all its faults, will keep the name of the composer alive long after ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1883
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1222 | Page: 6 | Tags: News