Mr. Sims Reeves's Benefit at the Monday Popular Concerts

... 3 The interest excited by this entertainrment was very general, and the attendance at the St. James's Hall on Monday evening one of the largest of the season, the orchestra, galleries, and body of the hall being completely filled. Beethoven's Posthumous Qnartett in F, No. 17, commenced the concert, finely executed by Messrs. Sainton, Ries, Doyle, and Piatti. The vocalists were the bene. ...

Published: Sunday 29 April 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1644 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden

... In our last we briefly alluded to the arrangement made by Mr. Gye for the ensuing season, which commences on Tuesday next. The season of 1860 promises to be as brilliant as any of its predecessors. The following outline of the arrangements will show the indefatigable industry of the manager to produce novelty. The established favourites in the operatic department engaged are Madame Grisi, who ...

Published: Sunday 08 April 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Royal Dramatic College

... I I On Tuesday a Special General Meeting of the life governors, annual subscribers, and ordinary subscribers of this excellent institu- tion incorporated by Royal Oharter, for providing an asylum for aged and infirm actors and actresses, and the maintenance and education of children of the members of the dramatic profession, was held on the stage of ,the New Adelphi Theatre. The principal ...

Published: Sunday 05 February 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1931 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, C0VENT-GARDAN. The season proper of the Pyne and Harrison company terminated on Saturday evening. The operetta of Romanee preceded the Lurline of Mr. Vincent Wallace. This latter work hai not only sufficed to fill the theatre each evening since its production, but has decided the manage- nent on giving nine additional representations. On Satur- day night the opera was ...

ART UNION OF LONDON

... -w I A&' x hor , 'I :. . : : 4 R- _ I I r I II . The exhibition of picture and statuary select 14ipirchase by the winneos o p rizes in the Art sliion lot- tey this yenwar opened on Satnrds ~ mornhl at the (GAblry of the Society of ?? Artists, in Snffoeicstreet, Pill-malL There are a hundred and fourteen oil paintings, Adkhl have been chosen out of the rimqipal exhibitions of the pas season ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... .. .- . .. . .. . . . It is alarming, peculiarly at this time, when the female go ink-bottles are perpetually impressing upon us v woman's Y1 particular worth and general missionariness, to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for tc any m mission, or usefulness at all. It is equally unfitted for o1 all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is now a far b ...

FASHIONS FOR MARCH

... n. (From Le Follet.) exhi Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very bon( ashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatane, with flounces em- beer broidered with coloured spots of velvet, or of gold-spotted the a led all over with gold, silver, white, cerise, &c.--are all in favour. held I W. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which mat, makes a simple but very charming ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... I forgot to tell you that on a former visit to the hotel I KS found, sitting at tO table with as long a face as he could TU make of a round one, our ?? the Cockney; being by his own contrivance a d4tenu. Having, as usual,delivered em tip his passport at Cologne, he persuaded himself that the act printed Dampftchiff document he obtained at the packet- no, office v as something equivalent to the ...

DRAMA

... I bit 17J MA. t ?? ?? PRINCESS'S. Thil; theatre opened for t~let csafso'u cu1 Sattilrrirs' ?? when was 1-rorluoecc an ad-c'ctation ?? IF-leocr of Vi, tot Hulgo's admnril ,li drnc~ia of Ilit'Ea the ii ro being lilavc- by½ M. Fecicter. Thi' -entalcrean. it,l f..r the Ilast ten y'eai ha' heett tile leadring ?? a pri itr onl the Paristan stage, cril o hao was lit ori ijiual representat ive of ...

FINE ARTS

... I= - -3_INE:AR I EXHBIION OF THE WORS OF T. FAED. T. e gallery No. 6, Waterloo place, is now open ith %colletion of all pintings by ?? popular X 5th, Mi. Theesa Feed. :hXis maldl galler~y, recently oc- upied by . Mr. Brket's t of The Reliefof Luck- now, sealp to be per ntly engaged by the Ners. Agnew, of Mianchester, for it now bears the names of this wellknow picture4d ;vg snd pinti ...