JULIUS CÆSAR AT DRURY LANE

... 7ULIUS CAESAR AT DRURY LANE. IT is to be hoped that no intelligent foreigner, on a passing visit to London, was allured to Drury Lane Theatre on Thursday night in expectation of a Shakspearian treat. One can imagine the delight with which such a man ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... and Chatterton is reaping its deserts in full houses and enthusiastic audiences. The earnest eondes_ vours the lessees of. Drury Lane are making to eleJvate, the public taste, by producing the best works of our most eminent dramatic authors in a manner worthy ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER. DRURY LANE. King John is brightly mounted by scene-painter and property-man, and the King John of Mr Phelps, which we described when he played the part at Sadler's Wells, is a good piece of acting. Some parts of it are, perhaps ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PWBLIO AMUSSEIr T3 DRURY LANE THE&TRE. The winter season at Drury Lane has commenced with Macbeth and *Co nous. The former of these was the grand ' revival of the earlier par of ltst season, and will be played by Mr. Phelps in the principal character; ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... Louis XIII. and the Duke of Orleans are the only actors who seem out of their element in the play as it is now acted at Drury Lane. We are glad to see that Miss Eelen Faucit will soon tread these boards again. Mr Walter Montgomery returns also, and we ...

AN IRISH ACTRESS

... expresdon of her sincerity. On the 18th of October, 1785, a brilliant comic genius, Mm. Jordan, made her first appearance at Drury Lane, as Peggy In the Contry GirL Shewas two years younger tban ?? Frren, and at thattime twenty-three. She was a native of ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER. D:RTlY LANE. Drury Lane takes new honours by producing Milton's Cmems as a brilliant Easter piece. The stage version used places too little reliance on the whole and unadulterated text, But CGomis, pure and simple, never has been ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. RICHELIEU . AT DRURIY LANE. Sir ?? Lytton's somewhat prolix pisay of Richelieu has been revived at Drury Lane, with Mr. Phelps as the subtle, ambitious cardinal and patriotic minister. The part is one in which Mr. Phelps acquired ...

THE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER

... with Mr Sims Reeves and Miss Louisa Pyne in the chief characters. He ought then to have thriven, like his neighbours at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, upon the attractions of a liberally-appointed Christmas pantomimne. But the poverty of invention in the ...

LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

... member of the Upper Ten, related to the Marquis Londonderry, has resolved to take to the stage, and will make his iieJ'ut at Drury Lane after the run of omus at Easter. _ Mr. Leighton's figure of Nieeola Pisano, which one of the most important decorations ...

THE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER

... credit. From such a company as Drury Lane is gradually collecting we shall look for many who are free from the false dignity in which bad actors take shelter. In a first-rate play no part is unimportant; and if the Drury Lane company enters worthily into ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC ALUSEII NTS. * 'COMUS, AT DRURY LANE. Neither Lord Byron's 1Manfred or Milton's Comuna have ever achieved any permanent success upon the stage until the recent production Of the former at Drury 'Lane Theatre, witls Mr. Phelps as the mysterious ...