... of itself a marked event. The scene outside the theatre prior to the commence- ment of the performance was most singular. Drury-lane, Vinegar-yard, and the western end of Great Russell- street, were completely occupied by a crowd, which had begun to colleet ...

... 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 ...

... sums disbursed for their conveyance to and from the Crystal Palace. Mr. James Anderson, late lessee of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, suggests that the royal commissioners should appropriate the surplus arising out of the Great Exhibi- tion to the erection ...

... GARaicL-Edmund Kenn was a great favourite with Mrs. Garrick, the widow of his celebrated predecessor. It was usual with the Drury Lane committee, when they wanted a new comer to make a hit to bring the venerable old lady out of her private box and then prompt ...

... to country bumpkins, barely fnding bread for his wife and child, he was just as great a genius as when he was crowdiu.- Drury-lane. When Brougham presided in the House of Lords, he was not a bit better or greater than when he bad hung about in the Parliament ...

... 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 ...

... counters of Exeter-change milliners; 'smart * orange girls picked their wvay between the acts through the well packed pit at Drury-lane, with the invitation to buy apples, oranges, or ginger-beer, or a bill of the play of the right sort ; the shoebacks ...

... had prepared ?? Lije of Cine- raC Sir WVillia Nacpier. Tul PRIVILEGES OF PLUSH.-On the 2rd Masy 1736, the audience at Drury Lane. with the Prince of Wales and his bride among them, witnessed some unex- pected addition to the entertainment promised them ...

... not to be hastily looked over. He died in 1794. JON MILLER.-Joe Miller made his first appearance on the stage in 1717, in Drury-lane, in Farquhar's comedy of A Trip to the Jubilee.' He also played Clodpole in Betterton's Amorous Widow, Sir H. Gibbin ...

... ' 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 ...

... cannot claim the honour of having ever been known to you.- You mistake. Don't you recollect when you played the part of at Drury-lane, that a little boy bore up your train ? I was that little boy. The story of a man who claimed to be a brother actor with ...

... joking, the other half in evading his angry creditors. He was sometimes for hours, even for days. ambushed in the treasnry at Drury Lane. He seldom answered letters, and vejy often did not open tbose be received. He lust receipts, and paid bills twice or three ...