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THE “ WHITE PASHA.”

... by using KEATING’S WORM TABLETS. Tins, Is. each. Optimistic 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 ...

EPSOM

... with Lady Betty Hamilton, who was known as the Maid of the Oaks,” from General Burgoyne’s masque, which Garrick produced at Drury Lane. During the reign of William IV. The Oaks was the favourite country residence of Lord Stanley, afterwards Prime Minister ...

WEEKLY LONDON LETTER

... an excellent exponent of the dwarf Mime. The demand for seats to witness this piece was so great that it was repeated at Drury Lane Monday with equal success. The sensation that has been caused by the announcement that no less than seven suspicious deaths ...

IOKDINAKY mistake

... pretenoee two ornamental gaselier*, of the value of £5 165., with intent to defraud Edward Cooper, an ironmonger's assistant, of Drury Lane. The prisoner, it was ■tated, had obtained possession house and ■bop in Oxford Street, ostensibly for carrying on business ...

MADAME RACHEL’S DAUGHTER. A SAD LIFE AND TRAGIC DEATH

... 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 ...

bore. Later, years ad.Mnce«'l —be was his 73rd year when di*‘d—Mr. man’s energies were condued ic lights ..

... strange spectacle. The pantomime seems not to lose its hold on the public if one can judge the success Robinson Crusoe at Drury Lane where, to the frolicsome capers of Miss Marie Lloyd, are added the novelty and surprise seeing Little Tich black as man ...

A PRIEST ROASTED ALIVE

... playwright, stated, shortly before his death, that he had sometimes made as much as £40,000 a year by his pen. A recent Drury Lane success realised in authors’ fees alone £lOOO a week, which Mr. Pettitt and Sir Augustus Harris divided between them. The ...

FROM 30s. COMPLETE

... had only to toil up Ranmore hill to Polesden to be sure if they did not get their bill paid, of at least securing a box at Drury Lane for themselves and friends.” Thornbury wonders where “this extraordinary meteor of a man” got the twenty thousand pounds ...

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. life not identify ourselves with our Corroepondent’e opinions.] The secretary of the ..

... being continually forced upon us. As to the Mr. Wood, o! course the pension he received will first time in the history of Drury Lane the morning performances of to pantomime have drawn bigger houses presentations. The great theatre has been crowded every ...

A PRETTY SPECTACLE AND A BIG SUCCESS,

... Chart, Lawn Trnnia Mr. F. Fhilps, Court Dreae Mr. A. Baxter and Mr. W, Simpson, as Skating and “Prince Poperty,” fiom the Drury Lane Pantomine 'Mr. E. K. Butcher, evening Mr. F. Butcher, evening Mr. W. Whaley, evening Mr. A. Heath, sailor Mr. G. Graves ...

OUR LONDON LETTER

... determination of the managers to close their theatres on Wednesday January 20, and I bear that in the case of a, house like Drury Lane such closing means a loss of one thousand pounds, and of the Lyceum not less than five hundred pounds. Then, again, the ...

LUJVDON

... hour—wo shall have a revival. Until that period arrives, it is well that someone should carry the connecting links. Harris, of Drury Lane, has also given his last performance of the great pantomime, announcing th.it had been great success. His friends are now ...