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THE DRAMA IN UNLICENSED BUILDINGS

... ladies anil gentle- ?? reprrseletilig the various chalracters speak. They were in appropriate costume, excepting the ghost, and ?? did riot lonw what his approliriatc costume was. In cross- examination by Mr Gibsoer, he said lie did not find anything ob ...

Published: Sunday 15 August 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 808 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GHOSTS.*

... Cock Lane hoc Ghost Story, uifter witielt his rotinise is natueci, (lit telepathy, act?ittg' or cryaltcl gazittg, Aol seeeitd eight, ghosts beforo the law, hint uritchori It, presby tr'riart ghost linri [era by tidito lurtimitg. tite ghost titeory of this ...

LATIN GHOST STORIES

... LATIN GHOST STORIES. I I NiNETY-NINE ghost stories out of every hundred, whether ficta voluitatis catfs, or put forth with more serious intent, are so evidently composed by the aid of ?? that, whatsoever may have been the aim of the narrators, the narratives ...

AN AUTHENTIC AND RHMARKABLE GHOST STORY

... AN AUTIJsNTIC AND RHMARKABLE GHOST STORY. HE [SURIDaOT OF IL5.WSTRATION. 3 'edjTJAe~r our ni~ture is iprohe to be stiperstitious, and apit Ito bo wrought uposi by idle fancies, has been Proved Ibeyond all controvars a ; tlisisevidehced by theaccounts ...

A BATCH OF SHORT STORIES

... A BATCH OF SHORT STORIES.7 A PROTHY!v little caricature of the regulation Christmas ghost-story, together with several narratives of encounters with ghosts, told as sober truth, but having an explanation ready to hand in the shape of large bowls of w ...

ANOTHER PHASE OF ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

... opposition to the 9th of the 39 articles. V THe BIRKENHEAD RIOTS.-The prisoners James Fining, Bridget Burns,Mary I'Guire, and Bridget M'Donald, charged with being participators in the late riot at Birken. I head, have been committed for trial at the assizes ...

THEATRES

... ?? - -- Tags.. MA. The ghost of pantomiee-for where now is pantomime- in the flesh, having been painted into a shade by pano-is ramas F-the ghost is about to re-appear; sad in the SC meanwhile there is but little novelty, and that of then meekest in character ...

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... it is here handledwith great facility. There is fancy in the account of Werner's interview with the gnome, and the peasant's riot is spirited in places; but the songs are most to our liking, especially Two Days now have Passed Already. The story tells ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GLIMPSES OF THE SUPERNATURAL.*

... time to read. A good collection of ghost stories, of the true orthodox sort, with no attemp~t at rationalizing, it wvould be churlish and ungrateful to find fault wvith. Even a senlsible attempt at explaining ghost stories, althou~gh it might savour a ...

LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... yocel aind pantomimic eccentricities, excite the risible faculty to the highest pitch. Then there is the Ghost, and a vsry te-spec-tre-ble Ghost it is, too; it stalks, it-walks, and it talks, and imaitates life t~o a shade. The band is under the h1atan ...

Published: Sunday 25 October 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1710 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

' SHAKESPEARE'S HEROES on the STAGE.'

... Mossop's experience in Lears:- It was during a season when Mossop was also a manager, and when the treasury was so low that 'the ghost did not always walk.' A wily actor, playing Kent, supported the afflicted Lear in his arms, securely enough, to all appearances ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1896
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture