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THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I I Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and several other members of the Royal family, paid an early visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday morning. They inspected the different parts of the building, and watched with interest the process of examining the different packages by the Custom house officers. Her Majesty has probably never before been so ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR

... I THE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR. ' .1 - - On Thursday week the handbill of the performances at e theatre, in Chester, announced that the entertain- merits would commence with a most uproqrious affair, entitled The Theatre in an Uproar, and before they finished, tle joke was more than realized, for the per- formances assumed every appearance of a comic beginning having a tragic termination. The ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRES, &c, IgAYWA:E-ET T1EATRRE. Last Night of Mr. MSacready. Had the Haymarket Theatre been twice its present size, it could not have held those who applied for ad. rcion on Monday night, when Mr. Macready performed there for the last time. A crowd besieged the doors at an early hour, the whole neighbourhood was alive with people, and every place in the boxes was let long before tle night ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3297 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM

... AMUTSEM1ENTS IN BIZRMINGHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-(Manager, Mr. H. Simpson.)- The chiet attraction at this establishment is the Panto- mime, which has been most creditably put upon the boards, and continues a most successful career in the public estimation. The plays performed during tbe past week have been Richard the Third, on Monday night; Dibdin Pitt's domestic ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 807 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE

... j THEATRXOAliS AT WINDSOR CASTLE. I. - The Queen gave a dramatic representation on Friday evening at Windsor Castle. About eight o'clock her Ma- jesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses ?? of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena entered the temporary theatre, in which the per- formance took place, ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LOW THEATRES OF LONDON

... 'The normal schools of vice and profligacy in London are the low theatres, where abandoned actors dance the most disgusting ballets, vitiate the loveof music by comic songs of the worst tendency, and perform dramas, farces, and tragedies, wlhich convey to the audience infamous lessons in all the crimes that afflict and impoverish society. The persons that attend these penny theatres are, for ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AT Liverpool

... PUBLICIIXJT A1!SIJ $ATR I Liverpool ?? _, - ThEATRE ROYrAL.-Mr. snd Mrs. H. Boleno's benefit took place on Tuesday evening, the house being crowded. The Pantomime has now bad a run of upwards of thirty nights, and is as attractive as ever. Duig h ee h following pieces have been ?? Gamester, Pri- sones of War, Romeo and Juliet, The Stranger, and The Wonderful Wloman. In the latter Mr. H. ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA AT Manchester

... ?? AN3XD 13 DRKAMA AT Manchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE THEATRE RoYAL.-Douglas Jerrold's comedy of The Prisoner of War has been produced with consi- derable eclat. Captain Channel' found a racy representa- tive in Mr. H. Cooke, though wher he was describing the glory .of former days to 'ieut. Firebracie:(Mr. A. Beverly) he hit the Lieutenant'rylheIr too hard in the ribs for a stage ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... Xi lS r AJ:ESTY'S TEATR$ Prospeots of the Coming season. In our last we briefly alluded to the Programme for the coming season, issued by Mr. Lumley, the indefatigable impressario of Her Iajesty's Theatre; we are now enabled to allude to it in detail, and give soanmething like an outline of the arrangements for the season; but let us first review the lyric and chore- graphic staff engaged. We ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CONCERTS, MUSIC, &c

... CONCERTS, iMUSIC, &c. M. BILLET'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.-On Tuesday M. Alexandre Billet, the celebrated Russian pianist, commenced a series of classical performances at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. The programme comprised Beethoven's Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78 ; a Prelude and Fugue in A flat, by Bach; two similar movements from Handel; which, with a Sonata by Woelfl, in C minor, made up the ...

Published: Sunday 16 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1558 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRE% &c. I DRURY-LANE-We have to congratulate Mr. Ander- son upon the success of what his bills term, the grand operatic spectacle of Azael, the Prodigal, which was produced for the first time on Wednesday night, and met with more hearty applausethan we have witnessed for many a day. This is an event calculated to gratify the many who are connected with, or at all interested in, the la ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4145 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TOUR TUROUGH EUROPE

... TOUR TURPUGH BRONPE. I Great Moving Dioraina, illustrating the Grand noutes of the Continent, at the Tourists' Gallery, Ier Majesty's Concert Room- . Dioramas, and exhibitions of a similar character, are crowding upon the metropolis with this eventful year, and it was with sometbing like a belief that they would become too common to be attractive, and, certainly, too iiumerous to be profitable ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1383 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture