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ANECDOTE OF EDMUND KEAN

... breakfast with me In the morning? I am at the - hotel. I shall be glad to speak to you;. My name is Arnold; I am the manager of Drury Lane Theatre.' I staggered as if I had been shot. My acting in the 'Savage'was done for. However, I stumbled through the part ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. G. V. BROOKE

... actor was prodigious, but where, likewise, he failedlasa manager. Wheng afterseven ?? inOctober. 1862, again as Othello at Drury Lane, he found a generation that knew not Joseph, and his return made scarcely any impression whatever upon the playgoing world ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... falters under pressure of argument, which as yet has been all on one side. I STIOCKING MURI)ER AND ATTEUPTED SUICIDE IN DRURY LANE. Auother murder and attempted suicide was comrn mitted yesterday morning. It appears a man named E Richard Whitby, with ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2769 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

AUSTRIA

... of'cotton during at the fortnight are 70,000 hales. ' heANOTHER muRDER. IN' 'ONDON. 'of A man named Witley, living in 'Drury Lane, murdered his wife yesterday morining, and then attempted suicide. Ho lies in a precarious state. to The committees have ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1470 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... law officers of the Crown. MURDER OF A POLICEMAN IX LoNDON.-On Saturday night last a fearful outrage was com- mitted in Drury Lane by a number of desperate cbaracters who live in that locality. It appears that! Patrick Fitzgerald, 50 F, a very active ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1518 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A GATHERING OF HOMELESS BOYS

... had slept under the piazza at Convent Garden. 'Iwo had crouched together in a balf-6inisbed sewer. 'The sh-tter.box at Drury Lane Theatre had been t ie bed on which anotherslept. Of costume there e s as everyvarety,. Some were in t tersirom head to foot ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2253 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... before, and merely creates sympathy for hard-working, well- 'meaning, but unhappy wives. The murder and attempted suicide in Drury Lane appear to have been the result of drink and domestic incom- patibility. A drunken couple never can bh comfortable, and the ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2617 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 24

... then Mire. Serres adopted the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, and assumed the Royal arms and liveries. She went to Drury Lane Theatre in State, and was received by the manager with all the formalities accorded to Royal personages. She drove through ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3620 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)

... once more found a place in our largest theatre, and the Comedy of Errors s'and King:Jqoh*a are to b seen every night at Drury Lane. The opening: ,cE the new Holborn ' Theatre has been postponed hiecause the arrangements for producg Mr.M Bondci- ?? Flying ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4240 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... that an assaultof unusual atrocity has -been perpetrated in one of those dens of iniquity in! St G3iles or in Seven Dials, Drury Lane or Houndsditilih,~' ITH of ' the great Babylon of bricks and -mortar, London,; then we are wore astounded at its concoinitants ...

Published: Monday 12 March 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4215 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... - ?? t! .- I . ?? ;. ; . -. ?i t I : Z.. , Drury Lane Theatre 'is ink the 3piairket. A man has ,died in London from thei~effiectsof kiso a bite f rom a ho rse.' o'rn Charles Davis, :under Sentenee, of desth in F2 Gloucester jail. for. the. murder ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5208 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... the whole subject was remitted to a committee. Yet another murder in London. The murderer in this case was a man living in Drury Lane, and the victim his wife. As in the Tunbridge Wells case the accused attempted to commit suicide after affecting his purpose ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5760 | Page: 2 | Tags: News