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AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... AMENICAN 'THEATRICALS. (Prom Peabody's American Chronicle of January 1st.) BROADWAY THEATRE.-The dehu46f Madame Alboni in Ceaerentola, at the Broadway Theatre on Monday evening, was a triumph. A crowded house anxiously awaited the appearance of the debutante, and when the curtain rose, exhibiting the great artist to the audience, the theatre from pit to dome echoed with the deafening applause. ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1452 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LIT)ERA TUBE. Civil Wiars and Mfonarchs, in Francee irs *iho Sizteeatl and atventeentbsh ACenturiecs. By LEDOPOLD B~E; XI.Z A current liter 'mithorir lis i~ef rkte~dthat the perfecat hi stori an would rtu lt from a 9oembjnatio~ a f Germnan and of Fr'ench genius; the''Geriinar' to' el-. leet the mnaterials, and to suggrest.'to~ theories, and the Frenchman to describ, to systematise, and to ...

LITERATURE

... ,. I .s .1:LIM TU SIX IMONTHiS IN NATAL ' -let all men proposing or determined to got Natal, fist consult this little book. It has all the simplicity of dawiright, outspoken truth. No diffiilties re exagge. rated pothinigisipabited in roie-c4our. - The aiathorla an edocated, practical man. Of himself hesys, I have farmed and lumbered in New:Brunewiekc end teavehsd Cmnadr from cast to west : ...

JOHN EVELYN.*

... JOHN E VEL yy* - ?? ?? as to the history or cha- 0 Tof Evely, the English gentleman, will be 5eeptable to the admirers of that high- :sdad Dti plritded, and accomplished man. In ?? the C0cludiig volumes of Mr. Colburn's ?? of the Diary and Correspondence, te uod a groat number of letters to and i I c Il} ich are published for the first time' ?? they are, perhaps, less amusing ! Ime ...

DRAMA

... ilextent th&t tnuot line's ?? us but the treunrer, is a , n utdayo ug, the edict wa had yentured to give In the morning pap on 8*. Cupid; or, Dorothy's Fortune. Long before the opening of the doors a dens. haute itself. Tb. whIii? away scuetsin ?ras agrssabl? bdfl?s??t pathetic 6! the es?tit eloqs?end? witliwbitir the ?ts?te bo.,?Iuleayo1ire& ?? 'the sg?4?eltish .pubhet One choleric old ...

LITERATURE

... .LI.TERAf TUBE. Bsww 05 Pouit cc and ?? &iloi;we. Contir~ibsd cefiep .. #0 the * EdinbuflgA Revceww By Wfx. B. GRE. a ro. S 'Tbe sieco'id partofthi t~i ftle will' taeitly describe N the-caracter of the greater part of this 'work, Po- litical e55tny5 cotributed to !the .Binbwrgk .RB during recent years 'are, of course, couservative.whi. 14 -less wvhig than coliservative. Under the editor who ...

GENUINE GOSSIP

... I BY ANI OLD ACTRESS. CHAPTER I. THE SHAKSPERIANS. As I commenced my theatrical experience before the close of the last century, I am, of course, fairly entitled to the designation of AN OLD ACTRESS. Like Robinson I Crusoe, I am descended from a respectable Yorkshire family, but my parents neither encouraged nor appre- ciated the drama. My father disliked, as he emphatically expressed it, ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | Page: Page 9, 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... TrE JAPANESE.-Mention is so frequently made in werks on Japan, of the privilege enjoyed by certain olasses of the inhabitants, of being their own executioners by ripping up the belly, that the reader will' not be displeaseed to tind Bome particulars respecting this singular custom. All mi ii tary men, the servants of the Emperor, and persons holding civil offisea under the government, are ...

STREET MUSIC.—AN IMPORTANT Question

... IPMUSI.- IPOLT I .11 ! Question. I AYES AND OTHERS V. TAYLOR.-This case was trid s Wednesday in the Clerkenwell County Court e plaintiff is leader of an itinerant band of breatbing bhpai, and the defendant is a grocer and tea-dealer ia Battle-bridge with a taste for music as well as for the sweets of his business. He has of late, however, become somewhat soured in consequence of a rival in the ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 740 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LIt~TERA TURR. 2TSe EidRgh Reviw. No. 197. Loagma. Lee (lucrterly Reeiw. No. 183. Bmnr~. The two old-established caterers for the public taste bring rather more than their usual stock of information in the hast numbers. The literary arti- lels in each are mostly on subjects of interest. By a sags ?? the two reviewifve e hh seized. hold of three subjects in commaon, ndaT T~ie Count ...

THEATRICALS AND AMUSEMENTS at Sheffield

... THEATRICALS AND AMUSBM1WENts at Sheffield. CERoM OUR OW CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-(Lessee, Mr. Caple).-On Friday, the 14th inst., the performances were under the patronage of W. A. Matthews, Esq.j the Mayor of Sheffield, when the boxes were attended by a brilliant display of beauty and fashion. The worthy and generous Mayor entered the theatre shortly after seven o'clock, and on taking ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRE8, &oo OLYmpIc.-A new drama, in three acts, from the fertile pen of Mr. Morris Barnett, was produced at this theatre on Monday evening. Politeness, in accordance with the custom which obtains of permitting even trans- lations of the product of French ingenuity to be desig7 nated an English author's, renders it, in this as in other instances, to grant the dramatist all the honoure he ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2646 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture