... hani that raised it is gone. How sadly pro- lific has this year been in the deaths of useful and of eminent men Once more Drury Lane, par excellence the na- tional theatre is about to be tenanted. Next month Mr. Edward Falconer will open the theatre with ...

... classes, by whom this sort of education is most needed, than the theatres. The Alhambra could acconimodate the audiences of 'Drury Lane and Covent Garden added together, or those of the Haymarket, the Adelphi, St. James's, and the Strand. The Metro- Politan ...

... the stage in this country are severe enough, but I think no playgoer will care to assert that they are unjust. A visit to Drury Lane Theatre on the evening before the appearance of the article, The Scandal of Criticism, in the Pall i/all Gazette of Wednesday ...

... actors, he tells us, by the casual sight of an old playbill. That playbill recorded a performance of Twelfth Jgi,-ht at Drury Lane some thirty years before the date at which he wrote. How many years have passed now since the time when Mrs. JORDAN'S voice ...

... wvas generally understood that the late Mr. Charles Kean had in con- tenmplation a formal leave-taking of the public at Drury Lane Theatre-a farewell engagement in the course of which he might go through a series of his most famous representations; but ...

... vandalism could be prevented. There has been a tempest in a teapot about the play of Formosa, now being represented at Drury Lane, certain of the critics having spoken of the piece as one of an im- moral tendency. Perhaps the worst that can be brought ...

... and inconve- nience without any specific loss that can be assessed at a money value. If the performances now going on at Drury Lane Theatreare intended to show how hopeless is the representation of Shakspeare in our day, they may be pronounced highly ...

... for the Royal box at Drury Lane. This was an awkward circumstanca, calculated to damage the manager in the estimation of the public. A little while afterwards the services of Mr Charles Mathews, tben under engagement to Drury Lane, were required for the ...

... assisted by the leading members of the South r llub Loudon parochial bodic .. - ti 120. ti___ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ Ited qu yer, DRURY LANE THEATRE IN DANGER fo ght, BY FIRE. a ito m r of About balf-past six on Sat'rdey evening a fire broke out m sur- in the extensive ...

... the rew theatre and winter garden in Leicester Square will seat 6,000 people, The stage is ten feet deeper than that of Drury Lane Theatre, and fitted with the most recent scientilic ap- pliances. Separate staircases will be provided for each of the four ...

... Hardy of Munden, and the Flutter of Jones. The most solemn of gay Doricourts was John Kemble, who performed it in 1790 at Drury Lane, Mrs. Jordan acting Letitia Hardy with marvellous dash and spirit. The last is a character which was always a favourite ...

... Carroll. aged 76,; on the following day the Marquis D;,lhousrie; on tbe 2t3th Mr. Alfred Buon, for many years lessee of Drury Lane !.'Theatre, and Lieutenant- General Willes, aged 71; on the 25th tte Earl of Mer- borough, aged 77 ; on the 26th- the' Rev ...