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THE DRURY LANE TRAGEDY

... THE DRURY LANE TRAGEDY. Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an inquest at St. Giles's hi Coroner's Court, London, yesterday, touching the death of Inl James Whitehall, 41 years old, a master japanner, who al lodged at 5, Drury Lane, and who, after attempting to ...

DRURY LANE TEATRE

... old Drury Lane greenroom that Baddeley's bequest of £L00., out ot the interest of which a cake, wine, and punch were to be partakcn of by the Drury Lane actors in their greenroom on every Twelfth Night for ever,' originated; but the old Drury Lane greenroom ...

SIR A. HARRIS AND DRURY LANE

... SIR A. HARRIS AND DRURY LANE. I Sir Augustus Harris has been telling a Strand Magazine interviewer how be first got hold of Drnry Laue Theatre. It was to let; and why, he asked, should not he take it? Fortune seemed to favour me, and aD gentleman of ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1891
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 456 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A POETICAL PLAY AT DRURY LANE

... A POEtIOAL PLAY AT DRURY LANE-. The Ttnes gives the following description of the niow ?? produced on Wednesday evening at Drury Lane, nuder the title of Nitoords, a poetical play in five acts by Misss 0le. Graves. Scene: The city of Memphis aSO its ...

EDMUND KEAN'S FIRST VISIT AT DRURY LANE

... EDMUND KEAN'S FIRST VISIT AT DRURY LANE. the church clocks were striking six he sallied forth from his lodgings in Cecil Street. Bis parting words his wife were,' I wish was going to be shot. his hand carried small bundle, containing shoes, stockings ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1878
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 484 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A Pantomime Deess Exhibition. —Mr. Augustus Harris on Saturday gave a four o'clock tea the ladies the press ..

... the press —that is, to the ladies whose duty it to deal with dress—in order to show them the wonderful costumes for the Drury Lane Christmas pantomime. The dresses are splendid, brocades and silks being used of the very finest and richest sort. Among ...

Published: Tuesday 17 December 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A FORGIVING DEBTOR

... respectable nelghboumhood, and, I assure you, very different from Drury Lane, [A laugh.] Mr. Flowers: What have you to say to the oharge? The prisoner: I am coming to that. Not bat I Live In, Drury Lane, or, to be more particular, in Oharles Street, myself; but ...

Published: Tuesday 22 November 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 501 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A SHOCKING STORY OF BIRMINGHAM LIFE

... with assaulting Elizabeth Coley, of Drury Lane. Prosecutrix, a young woman, said that she formerly lived with the prisoner, but he treated her bo cruelly that last she had to leave and her aunt's house in Drury Lane. On Juno J, about midnight, was awakened ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Titiens remains at Covent Garden, and it is extremely unlikely that any of the new artistes who are to make their debuts at Drury Lane wiil dispute her supremacy in such operas as Norma and Medea. On the other hand, it is to be remarked, to the shame ...

Published: Monday 28 March 1870
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2070 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. THE ESTATE, comprising acres Freehold Agricultural and Sporting Lands, m the Valley ..

... comprise— Annual Rental. No. 124. Drury Lane, leased for 21 yeara from 1875. at. £81 8 0 No. 125, Lane, leased for 21 years from 1872, at. 8 0 No. 126, Drury Lane, leasod for 21 years from 1868, at. 60 0 0 No. 127, Drury Lane, leased for 21 years from ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1878
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2424 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PANTOMIME CHILDREN

... attended to support the summonses, and Mr. Broadley, barrister, appeared on behalf of Mir. Augustus Harris, the proprietor of Drury Lane Theatre. In the first case, that 6f Gwendoline Quantrell, the School Board officer stated that the child was ten years old ...

SINGULAR LETTER TO A CORONER

... was a piece of theatrical property. He had, however, been greatly troubled about a small business they had purchased in Drury Lane and which was a failure; and he had threatened to commit ?? Glesson, a lodging-house keeper, of 5, Lumley Court, deposed ...