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THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT

... if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Son- nets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries. The celebrated Spontini, the author of La Vestale and Fernand Cortez, has lately died, at Jesi, his native place ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... hinsself. COMEDY THEATRE. In spite of the success of his programme at this house, Mr. Willie Edouin has been forced to take Blackberries' and ''Turned Up to the Royalty Theatre, Miss Lingard having made arrangements for the production hers of the provin ...

THE READER

... warning to the careless swimmer we may mention Medusa and her Locks, a story of the poisonous Cyanea, capillata, and a Blackberry Bush in Autumn, as a pleasant sketch of one of these common objects of the hedgerow, from which so much may be learnt had ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1373 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Place aux Dames

... woollen goods, but they also supply wood-carving, baskets, and all kinds of embroidery. Engagements are as plentiful as blackberries this autumn. Lord Strafford, Equerry to the Queen, has chosen Mrs. Colgate, a sprightly American widow, for his bride, ...

Seasonable Fashions

... June, roses of numerous shades; July, cornflowers and fancy grasses ; August, poppies and corn ; Sep- tember, hops and blackberries ; October, nuts and autumn foliage; November, chrysanthemums ; and December, holly and Christmas roses. Again, a pair of ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1896
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1278 | Page: 24 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... for ,Scandal at the STRAND, Sophia at the VAUDEVILLE, OUsr Diva at the OPERA CosiQUS, The Seheotmvistr-esc at the CouRT, Blackberries and Turned Up at the ROYALTY, The Mikacdo at the SAVOT, and La Bc'arnaise at the PRINCE OF WALES'S. THE SURREY. On Saturday ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4421 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BOYISH PROFLIGACY

... would be willing to acknowledge that facts equally melodraamatic-nay, tragical-were every day cropping up as thick as blackberries in every court, street, and alley within a hundred yards of the garish 'Theatre, where they sit in spell-bound attention ...

Published: Sunday 24 September 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

... OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fior's for opera buffa can scarcely be said to grow on blackberry-bushes. In France even, where dramatic invention measured by the standard of English barrenness seems almost fertile, some difficulty is experienced in ...

New Novels

... to be hoped that there no~ ;licence in the matter beyond those literary coincidences v ricir 2 a l*ecumring as common as blackberries. Wife, or No LA Ic * itot be regarded as worthy of the author of 'The M cur, l f IHerors Dyke, and is one of the i ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Miss Virginia Bateman (Mrs. Edward Compton) is unfortunately indisposed, and her place is now taken by Miss Dora Vivian. Blackberries and Tuimed Up (with the same cast) will be transferred from the Comedy to the Royalty theatre on Satur- day, 11th September ...

Notabilia

... for trespassing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hattrin Hall, and taking therefrom, on the 15th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of six- pence, or thereabouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the defendant more than ...

NEW MUSIC

... Anecdotes of the Stage, have for the last forty years rained round us in a perfect storm; indeed, ihey have budded thick as blackberries on the literary hedge of every year within the memory of decent compu- tation. But the reminiscences of an actor, whso ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture