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MRS. GLOVER AND DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... I MRS. CLOVER AND DRURY-LANE THEATRE.I TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRA. Sir,-Tbe new lessee of the Drury-lane Theatre having announced in his playbills that I have broken my engage- ment with him in consequence of not being allowed the exclusive use of a dr ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... PATRONAGE OF DRURY LANE. The desire of her Majesty to patronise the legiti- mate drama, specially evinced last year by the court performances at Windsor, has been still further exhibited by the accordance of the Royal patronage to Drury-lane. Her Majesty ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2967 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

DIARY OF EVENTS FOR THE YEAR 1849

... Upwards of thirty persons seriously injured in the endeavour to escape from a Roman Catholic Chapel, in Charles-street, Drury-lane, owing td a false alarm of fire. 30. The North' Kent Railway opened for passengers between London and Gravesend. 31.- M ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4869 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THEATRES, ETC

... THEATRES, ETC. DRURY-LANE.-On Saturday evening the play of The Stranger was performed. We confess to a great distaste for this out-of-date morbidly sentimental production, and wonder that it has so long kept its place on the English stage. However, when ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2693 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS

... the Fra Poco, from Lucia di Lam- 7mermoor (which first stamped him as a finished vocalist when the opera was produced at Drury-lane under the Jullien regime), was magnificent; and in Beethoven's Adelaide the pure and thrilling quality of his vocal organ ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEWSPAPER CRITICISM

... showing a decided inclination to reform, and the struggle between its head and heart is apparent in the brief notices of Drury-lane Theatre, which appeared in Tuesday's and Thursday's papers. The first refers to the Road to Ruin, and commences with a word ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1211 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

LAW AND POLICE

... ROBBERY AT MADAME TuSSAUD's EXkIBITION.- Thomas Daldy, a respectably dressed man, formerly a publican in Charles-street; Drury-lane, and subsequently te keeper of a beer-shop, a well known rendezvous of thieves, in the neighbourhood of Clare- market, was ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9003 | Page: 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... ofthe fate Eltz~beth. rone, wife of John Jones, many years at Licensed Victualler in 7th, aged 35, Mir D. Coldman, of 109, Drury-lane. 7th, at New-croas Surrey, Charles Thomas, the secossd son of thelat ThmasHarisn, sq. ?? Hotel, Covent- 7th inhis19t yer ...

CONCERTS

... no surprise, then, that Mr. Allecott's Concerts are invariably crow ded to suffocation, wshetlmer the locale selected be Drury-lane, Covent-garden, or the Opera House. This year lie has adjourned to Exeter Hall, and, we have no doubt, he will succeed in ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1158 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, ETC

... termi- nation. The house was not fully attended. DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL TWELFTH CAKE. CURIOUS BEQUEST. - Many of our readers are, perhaps, unaware that the members of the corps dramatifrue Of Drury-lane Theatre are annually entitled to a Twelfth Cake, ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6710 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... Hospital, with very little chance of recovery. ATTEMPTED M;URDER NEAR DRURY-LANE-.-On Tues- day night a case of the use of the knife in passion took place in thie neighbourhood of Drury-lane. Two tailors, one of them deaf and dumb, had been engaged at work ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4514 | Page: 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Advertisements & Notices

... our office. ELDERLY SUBSCRIBtR.-MiSS Ellen Tree (now Mrs. Charles Kean) was born in 1805, and made her first appearance at Drury-lane, Sept. 23d, 1826, in the cha- racter of Violante, W. BAGOT.-You must have a license, which is granted at the Licensing Sessions ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1628 | Page: 8 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices