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DRAMATIC COLLEGE FANCY FAIR

... DRAXATIC COLLEGE PFAtY FAIR. SECOND DAY (MONDAY). After an interval of forty hours, more or less, the Crystal Palace again resounded with the revelry which results in so largely bene- fiting the Institution at Maybury. Richardson's, Wonbwell's, Punchinellos, Jack-in-the-Green, the lti-Toole-i-orama, the An- tiersonian ''eesndapameibomenosteaon, and the Cristalaspalosianian, were again employed ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1693 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... [The following appeared in our Tows EDITION Zast Weeke I I r - After the elaborate revival of King John had secured the earnest attention and admiration of a very numerous auditory, the perform- ances were varied lhst Saturday evening by the production df a newv comic drama, written by Mr. Edmund ;a coner, and bearing the highly characteristic Hibernian title of Galway Go Braghc; or, Love, ...

Published: Sunday 03 December 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3650 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BAILY'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE

... I BAILY'S XONTHLY NAGAZINEb F Attractive and interesting as this first-class sporting magazine usually is to its numerous readers, it will be found this month doubly so not merely from the variety of the themes embraced, but from the humorous and amusing manner in which several of them are written. The first article for May is, of course a biographical sketch and portrait of some renowned ...

Published: Sunday 14 May 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 859 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... LONDON XUSIC HALLS. ROYAL ALOAmBR.A.-Mr. strange must have expended a coni- derable sum in keeping up appearances. At the present time, belsind scaffold poles and white hangings, a new proceium is being prepared which will as deuht increa's'e the brllat appear- ance of-h ulig n enider it more perfect titan ever. 'Thess alterations interfere in no degree with thle regular entertainments, which ...

Published: Sunday 24 September 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2564 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... L I T E R A T UR BB. WI\LATsrn SlHAEsPEARE. By his Eminence CARDINAL \INTE- mIAN. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street SUAoeESPIlARV AND ART. By E. T. CRAIG, F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. The obscurity which veils the private life of the great Dramatist, and the doubts which exist as to even his personal appearance, almost remtind one of the mystery which bides what all ...

Published: Sunday 07 May 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2521 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

... ROYAL ACADEXY OF ARTS. This time-honoured Exhibition of the productions of modern painters has nearly reached its century, having in this year of grace, 1865, attained its ninety-seventh anniversary. The pictures displayed on the valls of the Academy may be described, as the Latin poet, Martial, charaeterised his epigrams, some good, some bad, some mediocre. The catalogue informs us that ...

Published: Sunday 07 May 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2949 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITEATURE

... LITE A T U BE. HARDWICKc's SCIENCE GossIr FOR 1865. Edited bh Ai. C. COOKE. R. Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, LondoK: Such volumes as the one before us are among the characteristics of this age of progress. Learning, once so laboriously got at, and so cumbersome when attained, is now, under the guise of gossip turned into amusement, and we scarcely know our old friend by sight. Let any one wvho ...

Published: Sunday 31 December 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1620 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... LOND.ON MUSIC HALLS, - - - O. - E STa>xD.Tlsat an Englishman may, at a very moderate st imnbibe his bitter' and enjoy lis ballet at the same timeis to osst perceptionst a refreshing sign of the times. Facilities for te ilgence of these twin predi ectsons seem on the increase. tlae i'nore ?? Halls than formerly now exhibit incarps of Abasply divinities, and the silk fleshing and satin slipper ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... I (inm0 oun ows coOBRRsponxDirTS.) ABERDEEN, TwaIBAWS1 BOTA~-(-lManagar, Mr M'Lein.)-The Pantomime has now Riven place, at first price, to good Stink dramas, In which the strength Of the company is called into requisition. The Pantomime ls played as an afterplece for the accommodation of parties who cannot visit the Theatre during the early part of the evening. The Orange Girl Is underlined ...

Published: Sunday 15 January 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 20369 | Page: Page 12, 13, 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MORE AMATEURS AT THE BIJOU THEATRE

... XORE AXATEURS AT THE BIJOU THEATRE. (Last Night.) The opinion is very general, excepting among amateurs them- selves, that Shakespearian plays are not adapted for representation except by persons who have learnt to walk and talk like reasonable beings, and the aforesaid opinion is not at all likely to be subverted by the performances of those ladies and gentlemen who regaled their friends upon ...

Published: Sunday 04 June 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FOREIGN DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE

... -O Ii DRA M A-T- = - 9 L |FO:REIGN1 DRlAM~ATIC INTELLIGENCE. (WR&ITTE EXCLUSIYBL-Y BoB THE EnA.) Masked balls and concerts are rapidly succeeding operas and dramas in the Prussian capital, which at present is particularly rich in varied and, it may be added, first-class amusements. Amongst the chief attractions of Berlin must be mentioned, in the first place, th~e operatic representations ...

Published: Sunday 05 February 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture