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METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2025 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... announced their intention to attend the performance. a The last occasion on which I saw Mr. Harrison on the c, hoards was at Drury Lane, some tim~o ago. He bad only a just recovered from a severe and serious illness, in which his voice had suffered ; but the ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2164 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... unnecessary to state that the lady Was one of the most valuable members of Mr. Macready's company, both at Covent da-don aid 'at Drury Lane, and that she co-operated with Mr. Phelps in promoting the dramatic reform of Sadler's Wells.-Spectator. HOmlOPATSSY IN ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2175 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... has been bad, but the larger houses have no reason to stoop to such things, for it is said that one day's performances at Drury Lane brought nearly £1000 into the treasury. I see that the Manchester Statistical Society has bean calling attention to the ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2338 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

... delighted the langhter.loving audiences of Cee'ent Garden with his ?? represeetatloas. Prom b 1811 to J824, he played at Drury Lane Theatre. He died in w 1882, w ¶ Mr. Jseneu .Ahlsim Park, the recorder of Preston, adlshingulshed ci member of the liar on ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2318 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... been members of the great unknown, but the other day, no less a notable than Mr. Blanchard, of the Daily Tcleraeph, and of Drury Lane and the other theatres at Uhristmas time, gave his experience. Un- fortunately, the testimony hals, like that unfortunate ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2400 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... puffed as a protdgg of President Juarez, and who turned out to be a third murderer and general 4banner carrier, &e., at Drury- lane, to the disgust of the audience. It is stated that the Loadon Scotsman will in future be edited by Dr. Mackay, the gentleman ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2617 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... working will be published by Mr. Scudamore, ot the General Post. office. The number of persons engaged upon or about the Drury Lane Theatre establishment-including the company, orchestra, scenic artists, ballet, stage carpen. ters, property-men, super ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3889 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... personal property was sworn unider Sb £8,000. F3 In connexion with so successful a revival as that of by King John,' at Drury Lane, there are some theatrical wc reminiscences that play~goers may care to note. Rich Lv first revived the play in 17-37, after ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4650 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... erection of a Roman Catholic Cathedral in the metropolis. lo The man, Whitlel, who murdered his wife in Feathers- icourt, Drury Lane, London, and then cut his own throat, isdead. There was a partial eclipse of the sun on Sunday morn- Ing, commencing at ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7374 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... To-night (Satuiday), the diramia of 1Nig'lt I Vand Mori-n! will be sepeated, and this will terminate the engagement of the Drury Lane Company in Preston, when I we should recommend the public to avail themselves.of this last opportunity-for the present, ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8223 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... the spot. He managed to inflict injuries on the policeman (a man named Brown) which caused his death Yesterday week. At Drury Lane the management have commenced a series of comic revivals calculated to bring forward Mr. ! Phelps as the representative ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9540 | Page: 3 | Tags: News