THE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... engagement at Drury Lane to play in conJano. dton with him, which he did-with great success. gat the management of Covent Garden Intimating to him that It still claimed his services, he absented himself from a perform ance of O&ielo at Drury Lane on the night ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1865
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 803 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ANECDOTE OF EDMUND KEAN

... breakfast with me In the morning? I am at the - hotel. I shall be glad to speak to you;. My name is Arnold; I am the manager of Drury Lane Theatre.' I staggered as if I had been shot. My acting in the 'Savage'was done for. However, I stumbled through the part ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BRUTAL MURDER OF A GIRL

... Awiully Sudden Death in Drury-lane.— On Wednesday morning last a woman named Mrs. Watkins, wife of a blacksmith, residing in Denham-yard, Drury- lane, who bad been t wenty-one days in prison for break- ing her furniture and otherwise acting violently ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1862
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FORMOSA

... and did verify each of my facts over and over agaim I should observe that I am not a' dramatic oritic, and that I visited Drury Lane without a thought of adding to the correspon- dence to which Mr. Bouoicault's bold experiment has given rise. Indeed, I ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1869
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1553 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... School for Scandal at Drury Lane ! What images that conjures up in the mind, especially after a study of ELIA. True, it was not in Mr. WHITBREAD'S edifice that the famous comedy was originally played; but Drury Lane is Drury Lane, and the spirits of the ...

Published: Monday 17 April 1865
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3198 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE BOUCICAULT SCANDAL

... appeared on the stage during the fve years ofOuTrnarriage, and accepted 'the engagesennt under Mr, BousieAult's management at Drury Lane Theatre in direct opposition to my expressed wishes. It had been my pride to maintain her from myocra resources, ancd we ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1112 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... Caroline.. Barringt^n, the Countess Bruhl, and the Hon. Colonel Liddell, honoured the per- formance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, on Wednes- day last. ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE DOGE OF VENICE

... statement that he had not written and never would write with a view to the stage, the tragedy was produced by Elliston at Drury Lane on the 2fth of the same month, proof-sheets having been obtained from the printer and the parts having been studied by the ...

Published: Monday 04 November 1867
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... legitimate reaction at Drury Lane, but in such acting as may be found at the Olympic, and, as yet, there only. Before I close this letter, let me say a word about Love's Ordea, an original play in five acts, the latest event at Drury Lane. BYRON once said of ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1865
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2139 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... will allow me to state that the piece to which you evidently refer is the comedy entitled the Drummer, pro- -duced at Drury Lane in 17 I6. Here the personage who gives the title to this piece is an honest fellow, whose object in beating a drum and thus ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Queen Emma of Hawaii is ill. Advices from Ems state that Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt fs at present living in that

... Persons curious in theatrical matters, says Galignant, may remember that Palmer, the great English actor, when playing at Drury Lane, in 1798, the principal part in the ' Stranger,' after uttering the words, 'Thereis another and a better land,' sank down ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 6 | Tags: News