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The Marylebone Music Hall

... Oh ! steer my bark. Mr. Nat. Brooks dis- played considerable humour in two or three laughable comic songs. Generally speaking, we have not much faith in children who show themselves to the public with the word precocious attached to them; but there ...

Published: Sunday 29 September 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 754 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN BRISTOL

... cordial, and delightful welcome you have given us during the past week. I speak for my dear friend Miss Terry as well as myself. Her thanks are the same as my own; and I speak for one and all 4o us, and thank you with all my heart for your most bountiful ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. KUHE'S CONCERT

... a vocalist. and we can seldom speak too positively under such circumstances, for the history of many a celebuated singer reveals how partial failure at first has been changed isto celebrity in after years. We must speak walal some reserve at present of ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TWO MODERN ROMANCES.*

... I am going to say unconsciously, instinc- tively, as it were, and then I say it, and in speaking I thin again- conscious action to speak and to think what I speak? * All Amon the Barley. By Flora Hayter. Three vots. (London: F. V. White and Co. eH ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... e exaggeratioti, ann, so to speak, multiplication, as a source of humiour; anI thle ot1er that both occasionally drop the mask and speak for a fewv minutes ficm the heart. Nothing can be farther from our wish than to speak dis- ]Cspuctfull) of Mr. Clemens ...

THE SALVATION ARMY AND THE LATE MRS. BOOTH

... yesterday the anniversary of Mrrs. Booth's death was ceitebrated with special services by the Sulvatiun Ar-imiy. Strictly speaking. the 4t1 inst. should have been chosen for the celebration. that being the day, last year, -when the 'wife of General Booth ...

SIR FRANCIS GOLDSMID ON CENTRAL ASIA.*

... works of others. And Sir Francis Goldsmid has particular claims, barred, we believe, solely by his own uncommon modesty, for speaking with authority upon the subject he discusses. He has been for some time at the head of the Persian telegraphs, a purely British ...

AMUSEMENTS IN BRISTOL

... cordial, and delightful welcome yov have given us during the past week. I speak for my dear friend Miss Terry as well as mvself. Her thanks are the same as my own ; and I speak for one and all of us, and thank you with all my heart for your most bountiful ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 764 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA AT Manchester

... sixpetriy gallery, shilling pit, one shillinig and sixpence upper circles, and half a-crown dress or lower circle. Such facts speak for themselves. The scenery is chaste, and the machinery works like clock-work. Mr. Lupino is highly relished as Harlequin ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... cleverness or originality to us. Some of the best sayings of the world have now become truisms, and lost their point, so to speak, from the very fact of their excellence. The closer we suppose nwit to be to wisdom, the higher wve shall rate the Greeks ...

LITERATURE

... he saw in the Old Country, and such as everybody will read with pleasure, and many with profit. It is amusing to find one speaking our own lan- guage, and having an origin in common with us, regard- ing us as foreigners, and describing even a donkey cart ...

Published: Sunday 18 July 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Amateur Performance at the Haymarket Theatre

... latter', though a fine-looking, was a very poor, mild speaking performer. Mr. White was a prmn, smuaxt Lord Plato. Mr. Grevihle, cheugh not possessed of a voice well adapted fec effective public speaking, played the part of Sir William Evergreen very wvell; ...

Published: Sunday 12 April 1868
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 759 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture