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... strong support. Advertising is certainly making progress. The burlesques and panto- mnimes are full of tradesmen's puffs. At Drury Lane a well-known firm of haberdashers have a scene to themselves for the exhibition of their Christmas goods, while Covent Garden ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A CASUAL SUPPER

... had slept under the piazza at Covent Garden. Two had crouched together in a half-finished sewer. The shutter-box at Drury Lane Theatre had been the bed on which another slept. Of costume there was every v ariety. Some were in tatters front head to ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1866
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1682 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

LAST WEEK'S LATEST NEWS

... adhered to the fortunes of t'he merry trio, and would no: o cshaken from its old faite. And what is the direct oonseqreance? Drury Lane makes a little fortune every year bytitspantomime; and every other theatre in Lon- on, excepting one or t-c-.compelled by ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1862
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4850 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK

... dramsa, thait it becamc gradually en object of the greatest attraction and admiration. This theatre was, forty years ago, the Drury Lane of Bengal, ansd was supported by the whole of test nibility and gentry of the l'residency of Ca~lcutta Nor ctn the writer ...

Published: Monday 21 May 1860
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

NOBODY'S AMUSEMENTS

... become excessively tired, which, after all, is the chief result of Everybody's amusements. THE THEA TRES. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. This Evening (at Seven), MACBETH-Messrs. Phelps, Swinbourne, Vandenhsff, Neville; Miss- Atkinson. To conclude with COM ...

Published: Tuesday 26 September 1865
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

CURRENT EVENTS

... of Ludgate hill, at whose shop it is now on view. I 3fay 25.-The first of Mr Lumley's series of benefits takes place at Drury Lane in an enormously crowded house. At the weekly meeting of the Lancashire Central Relief Fund, Mt M'Clure states that dhe ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1863
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1850 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... Then indeed great works, greatly acted, and splendidly produced were served up to the critical world of London; then indeed Drury Lane showed its empty benches and Covent Garden went to the wall. These were the palmy days. These were the Shakspearian times ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1840 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 1

... DRURY LANE. 'IN'S EVENIf, JOHN BULL. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. Si n- bourne, E. PhelPs, and Barrett: Mkdames H. Vezin, Isalel Adams, & H.Vandenhoff.-And NUMBER NIP- OR, HARLE QUIN AND THE GNOME KING OF THE GIANT MOUNTAIN. HAYMARKET. Tils EVENIaN, 'A LESSON ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1867
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1762 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

RETROSPECTS OF ACTORS

... being in difficulties! There ought to be a public subscription got up to pay his debts. L THE THEA TRES. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. This Evening (at Seven), MACBETH-Messrs. James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, C. Vandenhoff 3. Neville, Barrett; Miss Atkinson ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1865
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1894 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... theatrical speculations,' it was rumoured that he was connected with me in Her Majesty's Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. May I beg the favour of the use of your columns for the purpose of giving a denial to the same, as I have no one connected ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1860
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2075 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS

... ugly facts iii support of the statement. Mr. Chatterton is not the only manager who has failed to make Shakspeare pay. A Drury Lane manager can only keel) himself going by a constant succession of very large audiences, and it must be admitted that there ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2171 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LATEST SUMMARY

... Friday, the swearing-in of special constables at the vestry of Wir. Paul's Covent-gadenr, was continued, and the employee of Drury Lane Theatre, as well as all the persona employed by Meesors. Kelly, of the *'London Directory ofices, and, other large firms ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1868
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1878 | Page: 8 | Tags: News