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... and for three months had carried prussia acid In a ring, Intending to destroy himself. Re said that Mr. ?? T. Smith, of Drury Lane, owed him one thousand pounds; a Mr. Robington, one thousand pounds; and M~r. Nallack, three hundred pounds,- all of which ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. A GREAT CHANCE FOR THE BLooKIMS.-Jualien opens Drury Lane with a masqnerade I ADvtcE-Advice ie like a policernan, often to be met with when not wanted; but, when really wanted, never to be found. A NATIONAL PoLum1UrTr.-The largest ...

LONDON LETTER

... success. He was simply announced to ,Iappear at Drury Lane; and it has been said of him, by more than one critic of authority, that he came, be saw, s. and be conamered. His first night at Drury Lane is not e one to be forgotten by biraself or by those ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1881
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA

... who talk learnedly and sentimentally about the aesthetics of the drama; so I betake myself at once to the practical. At Drury Lane, whose fortunes have ruled at so low an ebb for the last dozen or twenty seasons, Mr. E. T. t Smith, its present active ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2108 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

... _. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. The second meeting of the Administrative Reform Association was held on Wednesday evening, in Drury Lane Theatre. The attendance was much less than at the previous meeting, in the body of the house, but the stage was fully occupied ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... have burst into new life. There are pantomimes at Drury Lane and Covent Gar- den, at Astley's and the Surrey, and burlesques and extra- vaganzas at the other houses. Mr. Blanchard provides the Drury Lane bill of fare as usual, while the inimitable Paynes ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1434 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LORD SPENCER ON IRELAND

... who agree not to let Covent Garden for pantomime on the understanding that Italian opera is not to be l represented at Drury Lane. The clif (t claque, Mennier, died last week in Paris. His prototype, David, long since retired a from the business of making ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... Royal, Cambrlidge- ?? Royal, Cambridge) and MR. L. J. SEFTON. MISS CLARA WESTON ?? the Theatres Royal, Strand, Lyceum, and Drury Lane, London. The or ginal Mary Grace in Peep o' Day, at 1the Lyceum, for over SOO nights). MISS HEELN W;OWARD ?? fascinating ...

POETRY

... Mr. Falconer, has at last been overcome, for any mother can take her child to the morning performance of the pantomime at Drury Lane, and actually see it now without a Peep o' Day. PROGRESS OF CIViISATION.-The Emperor of Russia has just issued a ukase by ...

POETRY

... ' He's pinching me, said the boy. WELL SAID, PAT !-When Mr. Sheridan pleaded in court his own cause, and that of the Drury Lane Theatre an Irish labourer, known amongst the actors by the name of Billy Brown, was called upon to give his evidence. Previous ...

DESTRUCTION OF A MENAGERIE BY FIRE

... entirely confinet to lthe interior of the building. EXPLOSION AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. 'lwo men, ncased Hairris and Creed, were on Wednesday night engaged in the liine-liglht roam, at Drury Lane Thoatre, Londoci, mixing gas, when one of he libags they were ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1884
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 3 | Tags: News