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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... Wynne Seymour Smith, John Shearn Thomas, Spencer Clarke, Caine Col- lege; James Webster Longonire, Samuel Francis [Creswell, Augustus Jackson, William Donaldson, George Proud, St. John's College; William Underwood, Pembroke College John Durst, Sanders Etheridge ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... eopolds was watched with almost breathless wonder and was enthusiastically cheered ; and there were hearty compliments for Mr John Le Hay in his admirably worked ventriloquial entertainment. The Donaldson Brothers went through the extraordinary contortion ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2919 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... large and enthusiastic audience, Mrs. John Wood's Farewell Benefit. A full and fashionable audience assembled at the Adelphi on Thursday night to do honour to the talent of that charming and vivacious actress Mrs. John Wood, previous to ler departure for ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3507 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL

... Xir John Callan, eccentric comediana; Mr Will 'alorganti an-i Mav ?? on the silver bars ; Keir and tlen. knockabouts ; Mr Tom Bassett, character acnoe: Miss Ramsden, serlo; Miss Jessie P'rince, theSister- Santley, and Mr D. W. Watson, one-armed corns: ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2472 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... has been received with a good deal of laughter and applause. Mr Harry Grattan in his original character of Jenkins is responsible for much of the amusement, and Miss Emily Grattan as Di Dal- rymple sings and dances pleasingly. Miss Hetty Peel is an attractive ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1895
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10864 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... a sailor, and that by accident on board ship his right arm had been Shattered to pieces. He had beae landed, he said, at Cardiff, and then sent to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where his arm was amputated at the shoulder-joint, the primary cause ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851

... readiness to assist the working classes to visit the Exhibition. The resolution was agreed to, and Messrs. John Allan, plumber; Charles Fraser, tailor; John Bulloch, brassfounder; Robert Macleod ; Jatnes Hunter, ma- son ; William Murray, overseer, Spring-garden; ...

NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT LETEDS, 1868

... One is that of John lstrTisen, arid the other that of William Wilber- force. Both adorn the Mayor'snpartmrrnts at the Towvs H1all. the first was painted by Vandyke, adri was pre- seated to the Corporation by the trustees of St. Johns ichurch; the second ...

P.ROVlNCIAL THEATRIO

... Knight as John, Mr Leonard as Knox, Miss Heatcote as Edith Marnlaud, Miss Marion Douglas as Eva Webster, Mrs Glover as Mrs Stead, andi Miss Ada Travers as Miss Ashforda E CARDIIFF . THEATHE ?? end Manager, Mr Edward Fletcher; Acting-Manager, Mr John Sheridan ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 15981 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH

... Florence Isabel displayed unusual precocity as Mnad Prior. The drama was admirably mounted COOKE'S ROYAL CIRCUS.-Proprietor, Mr John Henry Cooke. -There was an almost complete change of programesme here on Monday. Mr Clarence Welby and Miss Alice Isabel Cooke ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1889
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3293 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY

... Desmond and O'Neil had passed. The age of Grattan and of O'Connell had begun. Memoirs of Grattan and O'Connell fill the greater part of Mr Lecky's volume, though he connects Swift's genera- tion with Grattan's by a short account of the work of Henry ...

LITERATURE

... when John, being then about twenty five years of age, and the father l of two children, engaged to go out to Savannah, in Georgia, in an English vessel, and under an English captain, for a cargo of rice>. On the arrival of the ship at Savanmah, John was ...