THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. MARTIN'S HALL

... Had the fire occurred in ahard frost, or with a much stronger west wind, there must have been a clean eweepright away to Drury Lane. As it was, bysixo'clock or thereabouts, the whole roof of St. Martin's Hall (which lies due east of the coach-makar'etowards ...

Published: Tuesday 28 August 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1152 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... centre of the ceiling ?? Garden, 65 feet; Drury Lane, 60 feet; ?? Miajesty's, 51. The width between the boxes of tho three theatres does iot greatly differ :- Covent Garden, 63 foot; Her Majesty's, 53 feet; Drury Lane, 51 feet. The third of the series of Saturday ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1867
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1779 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ARTS AND MANUFACTURES

... In the Bail Court, on Saturday, Lavigne, the celebrated oboe player, brought an action against Mr. E. T. Smith, lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, for, work and labour done,. Tie plaintiff had played in the band during the opera season, at four guineas a-week ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1252 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A LEFT-HANDED COMPLIMENT

... avidity with which the French critics will fix upon this new example of the vulgarity of the bizarre islanders. When, in a Drury- lane court, Michael O'Drury, being in his cups, makes a furious attack upon Biddy, his neighbour's wife, and this lady replies ...

Published: Sunday 24 November 1861
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AYR

... Paterson, Esq., of Spring all, writer in Glasgow, elder. MR T. PownE's A ?? believe that Mr T. Powrie, since his accident at Drury Lane Theatre, has suffered very greatly. He is still strictly confined, and although the ankle is very nearly all right again ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1867
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE SUEZ CANAL

... Goodrick. hiRrc;R AND DISORDERLY.-Ja11e Haycock (25), prosti- tute, court, Drury Lane, was charged with being drunll snd disorderly, and with using ohscone language in Drury Lane. She was an old offender, and was committed for a monthb JUVENcLE TsstOEvs ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... contributed towards the funds for its erection. On Saturday night,. during the farce of My Heart's in the Highlands at Drury Lane Theatre, a married woman named Stevens, gave birth to a child, causing great confusion. On Saturday the police received ...

Published: Tuesday 24 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 526 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. ^

... music at Covent Garden Theatre, and an evening performance at Drury Lane. This is but a faint beginning, bat let as accept it as a move. The Court Journal says, that the visit to Drury Lane will not very vividly recall Shakspeare and his works: the prize ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1191 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A CAUTION TO M. BOUCICAULT

... ' and in the second : act, Wapshot, the low comedian of the Theatre-Royal, Nottingham, is made to say, 'If I am not at Drury Lane E Theatre in big letters, it is because noble 1 lords don't run away with low comedians, atl I I can't pay the Press.' It ...

Published: Monday 10 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 552 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CURIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR

... the prosecution; and Mr. Daly, barrister, at- tended for the defendant. Charles Petter said: I am a spirit dealer, of 36, Drury- lane. I remember the defendant, Mr, Johnson, calling on me early in November last. He asked me if a Mr. Keily had spoken to me ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ORGANISATION OF CHARITY

... contemplation to devote Her Majesty's Theatre exclusively to the non-lyric drama. That there will be an Italian Opera at Drury Lane Theatre, under the direction of Mr George Wood, is, however, upon the best authority, beyond a ?? Xoal GCazette. * A writer ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1869
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE COUNTESS CIVRY AND THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK

... Colville was simply a beauty of the deml-mnonde, named Cbarlotte Munden, and that the Duke had met her in the green.room of Drury Lane Theatre. There w.as no enlcvement in the case; a journey of pleasure was simply proposed, and joyfully and readily accepted ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 6 | Tags: News