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QUEEN'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER

... QUEEN'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-I take the liberty of addressing you relative to an accusation in your paper of last Sunday, wherein I am stated as wishing to blacken the character of another man, or the purpose of polishin ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

MRS. GLOVER AND DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... I MRS. CLOVER AND DRURY-LANE THEATRE.I TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRA. Sir,-Tbe new lessee of the Drury-lane Theatre having announced in his playbills that I have broken my engage- ment with him in consequence of not being allowed the exclusive use of a dr ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... of 30 has been banded over to this very excellent charity. EXETER.-The theatre here is open for four nights, with Macready, his farewell engagement. Businessgood. GLASGOW..- Theatre Royal. - Notwithstanding Mr. Macready's criticism, the Dunlop-streetTheatre ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3087 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LITE'RATUR.| THIE COURT THEATRE, AND ROYAL DRAMATIC RECORD. Beinga Complete Historyof Theatrical' Entertainments at the English Court, fromtbe Time of King HenryVIII. down to ?? ofthe Series of Entertainments before Her Most Gracious MajestyQueen Victoria ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2427 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURIOUS CASE

... consent to marry him. He continued his visits for a considerable time, and often accompanied Miss Gerrard to church, the theatre, and other public places for amuse- ment and recreation, and introduced her to his friends as a lady for whom he had, the ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Advertisements & Notices

... Hardirg, Miss Turner. and Miss I. Coveiey (tier filth appearance at this theatre). To conclude wilt (last we,.kl THE SLIPPER1Y SKETCH OF MRS BUNBUIY'S SPOONS. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. 1L 11 Sole Lessee. Mr W. WArrS. Ott Monday and Tuesday, will be presented ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4940 | Page: 1 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

THE STAGE AND ITS PROSPECTS

... less disappoint- ment and obtain steadier returns. But independently of the causes which have thus divorced them from the theatre, a more obvious source of the decline of the stage and its literature may he referred to the stage itself. The materi;- no ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1246 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

DIARY OF EVENTS FOR THE YEAR 1849

... the loss of twenty seven men out of a crew of thirty. 17. Sixty-five persons crushed to death in the upper gal- lery of the Theatre Royal, at Glasgow, during an un- fortunate alarm of fire. 21. Lord Gough and tihe British army in India obtained a decisive ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4869 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THEATRES, ETC

... of M. Lac, from the Brussels and Ghent Theatres, who will make his debut as Stephan, the young Hunter; M. Chollet, from the Paris Opera Comique, who makes his bow as the Captain; M. Nathan, from the same theatre (of whom report speaks in the highest terms) ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2693 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEWSPAPER CRITICISM

... say that it materially helped to bring the stage to its present state-by no means a satisfactory one; for the success of a theatre now-a- days (an exception to a general rule) may be likened to the unnatural energy of an invalid who has taken brandy-a revival ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1211 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

MUSIC ABROAD

... including manager, performers, and members of the press. Such is the mode of Paris! Mr. Mitchell is to open the St. James's Theatre on Mon- day next with this opera, which is regarded as Haldvy's chef d'ceuvre. VERDI, the sole composer of whom Italy can ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RELIGION AND AMUSEMENTS

... amusements would these religionists permit, could they have everything according to their own doctrines P They loudly condemn Theatres, Operas, Horsemanship, Concerts, Balls, Cards, Dice, Billiards, Hunting, Racing, Shooting, Fishing, Cricket, and Novel Reading ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1058 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture