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A SAD SCENE,

... was as follows:—Madame Crosmond had last season been engaged as a member of Mr. Augustus Harris's Italian Opera Company at Drury Lane. This year her engagement at the Royal Italian Opera was so far settled that the salary had been arranged, the draft contract ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOARD OF WORKS INQITIRY. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the proceedings of the Metropolitan ..

... irregularities in connection with the Metropolitan Board of Weeks, at a further sitting i was Mr. Augustus Harris, lessee of Drury-lane who stated his objections to the manner in which the Board bad sxercised its powers in respect of the supervision of theatres ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1589 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. W. CRESWICK

... comprising Phelps, John Ryder, James Anderson, Marston, Rayner, and others, during the regime of Mr. F. B. Chatterton, at Drury-lane, he entered upon a successful engagement in Australia. Wben he came back to England he reappeared at the Surrey, then under ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GARDENING GOSSIP

... kc ; and it appears to me that the world is tolerably justified in bestowing on btu• its praises. To-night we all go to Drury Lane; Mr. Reynolds, the keepsake friend, sent us four tickets, and we are to meet him there. This is a tidy man. I have been ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3235 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... Two of these, boycotted farmers, adds the correspondent, got drunk and proclaimed their 'mission in a crowded tap in Drury-lane, and were severely beaten. WILLIAM BROWN, a sergeant in the Leicester Regiment, stationed at Tynemouth Castle, committed ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRIGHTENED ELEPHANTS

... existence of any cabinet on that body. Mr. Furness, also a member, was questioned by Mr. Winch as to the two tickets for Drury-lane Theatre procured for him by Mr. Ilebb. He denied that be requested Mr. Hebb to write for them, remarking that he was not ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WHITE PASHA

... by sang KEATING'S WORK TA BEET& TtnA la. ltd Nab. Orris:tem rumour has It that on the expiration of the present lease of Drury Lane Theatre. it will fall into the possession of the ground landlord, the Duke of Bedford, whose intention is to pull the house ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. --- WI do oot identity ourselves with earaienupordea *pinker 1 There is an old proverb ..

... upheld as the pattern artist, is made to figure in a ridiculons scene with the Shah in the ante-room of the Royal box at Drury-lane theatre. There are some •well-known facts about the ridiculous financial demands of Italian tenors within quite recent 4 ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1344 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES. easelvw Intl' war arremprimires apairer..l Txa forthcoming diary of the late ranparor Germany, of ..

... order of merit. Otrz of Plymouth the Armada tercentenary celebrations have not hitherto been of a very marked character. At Drury Lane Theatre in London something, however, has been done in the way of keeping alive the recollection of a great event in English ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ARMADA TERCENTENARY

... Exhibition of Armada and Elizabethan relics, armour, swords, books, and pictures, be. been opened in the grand saloon of Drury-lane Theatre, London, by the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. The exhibition, which partakes of a national character, embraces ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

I' lON OF THIS STOOK INVITED

... largely patronised as the places where the good oldfashion of pantomime was maintained. The hissing of the National Anthem at Drury-lane end Covent Garden was noticed for thesecond time this veer. I do not think too much need be made; of this, believing that ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1465 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ALCESTER CHRONICLE-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1889

... brevity (Bra. IV.), and will therefore briefly say that I—l, Julinsßellerby, of the Theatre Royal, Tesselton (and late of Drury Lane and other London houses)— desire earnestly to confer with your lordship °on matters of grave import to the State' (] y oung's ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1498 | Page: 7 | Tags: none