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The Hammersmith Dramatic Club

... The Hammersmith Dramatic Club. 1W7ho Speaks First? The Fool's Revenge, and Diamond Cut Diamond, were performed at the Bijou Theatre, Notting-hill, on Thursday night, by the members of the above-named Society. During the greater part of the time that the ...

Published: Sunday 21 February 1869
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1045 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PHONOGRAPH AT THE EXHIBITION

... Is sheet or leaf of metal will experience the same effects. I Sothat when speaking into the little apparatus, whichr. consists of a paper tube or funnel, acting as a speaking- it trnipet, a vibrating circular plate of sheet iron of b v'ary fine dimensions ...

MISS RUSSELL'S HOBBY

... y, and who speaks with idiomatic and easy fluency when seated in a chair, cannot rise from that chair to address the very audience he has just been speaking to but forthwith his mental attitude is altered; he thinks commonplaces and speaks platitudes: ...

PALLAS

... swutcr knowledge testilio3. 'The blush vour lace that beautifies lelin:,isn elequence outeies, It Nvhispcrs hat you cannot speak', Doar Girton girl. Dncafh the blue 1-ymettan skies, 'Atc ?? that sob when daylight dies Are honey swret, yNII say, but bleak ...

POETRY

... of silent winter Bve from itb sheath below Shoots up a small, green blade, brown earth tolsplinter. Tongues cannot always speak; O God! in this loud world of noise and clatter, Save us thie once-a week, To let thc sown seed grow, not always scatter. B ...

Present State of the Drama

... hissed down. (Laughter and cheers.) Bad actors must be condemned. (Cheers.) Be wished he could speak better, but his excuse must be that hisforte was to speak the words of others. lie thanked them sincerely for the honour of conneoting his name with the ...

SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART

... art of speaking well, and might be subdivided into conviction, per- seasion, style, and delivery. It was with the last of these sub- divisions, delivery or elocution, that they had to deal. Elocution he defined as the art of reading and speaking distinctly ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 658 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LECTURE BY LOLA MONTES

... sublime Milton, in which lie speaks of women as I Fair, no doubt, and worthy well Thy cherishing, thy honour, and thy love, Not thy subjection.' Lola considered the English, Irish, and Scotch women to be the handsomest. Speaking of beauties she gave the ...

HYMN TO THE NEW YEAR, ON ITS BEING RUNG IN BY CHURCH BELLS ON NEW-YEAR'S EVE

... But Memory speaks in him, as Hiope in thee. She speaks of mercies, gladdening as the light, aich as their Giver, free as heav'n above, Of softened griefs and darken'd hearts.made bright, . Of hopes fulfill'd, and-life-redeeming love. She speaks in warning; ...

IN THE ALSATIAN MOUNTAINS

... and Alsace are concerned. But why make the fact patent in print? The tone of the work, too, is very disagreeable. Mrs. Lee speaks of her dislike for ' thc conceited, domineering Teutons, of the huddled-up Belgians, a ' loose and shambling maidservant ...

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

... than a trifle. too sentimental over him. In the great biography, when Golds~mith speaks you have no doubt wvhose the voice is but in Mr. Moore's -story Goldsumitlh speaks by deputy-a very clever deputy, but only a deputy after all, and every now and again ...

QUEEN'S THEATRE

... and he would almost have his friends by his side deaf for a while, for he was going to speak a great deal in their praise, and when he said so, lie was going to speak justly of them, for he was not going to say a single word in flattery or exaggeration ...