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THE DRURY LANE FAUST

... THE DRURY LANE FAUST. MR. CARLYLE said a good many years ago that it would scarcely be more- absurd to look upon Hamlet as depending for its main interest on the ghost than to regard Ghthe's Faust as a mere tale of sorcery and witchcraft. It is ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1866
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1449 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

OVER-CROWDING IN ST GILES'S

... place, Drury lane, one room wab inhabited by eleven persons consisting of the father and mnather and six children, four of whomrt were fallwgiown, and three ludgers, the whole sleeping and coo0il ig in the single apartment. In King street, Drury lane, thirty ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1866
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1684 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... therefore, I do not dwell. But I have just come across a piece of German misquota- tion in a notice of the Faust at Drury Lane in yesterday's M1oorsnig S/ar which abuses the licence of inaccuracy beyond the endurance even of a patient bookworm like ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1866
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 837 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... the stage in this country are severe enough, but I think no playgoer will care to assert that they are unjust. A visit to Drury Lane Theatre on the evening before the appearance of the article, The Scandal of Criticism, in the Pall i/all Gazette of Wednesday ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1866
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1924 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OPINION IN THE WEEKLY REVIEWS

... Hardy of Munden, and the Flutter of Jones. The most solemn of gay Doricourts was John Kemble, who performed it in 1790 at Drury Lane, Mrs. Jordan acting Letitia Hardy with marvellous dash and spirit. The last is a character which was always a favourite ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1866
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3144 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Friday

... Colebrook, Plamstead, Kent, journeyman metal fitter-C Halsey, 'Win- chester street, Bethual green-road. brtcher-B Mitchell, Drury. lane, boot dealer-B Butll, Oxford, coal marchant-H Perfect. Hammersmith, dentist-H Fr.:ley, Dover. butcher-D Barnett Back-road ...

Published: Sunday 25 November 1866
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

News of the Week

... Exhibition at Guildhall closed on Tuesday. Mr Peabody distributed the prizes. - On Tuesday an Irish labourer in Feathers court, Drury lane, killed his wife and committed suicide. Mr H. E. N. King, aged seventeen, a son of Viscount Lorton, of Leitrim, has been ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THE INDIAN ARMY

... Pry is expected to adve in London about the middle of next mouth from Mecklenburg. The English Opera Company have taken Drury. lane Theatre for the season, and intend to charge unal I opera prices-via, one guinea for stdll. I Mr. Boucicault is in Paris ...

Published: Tuesday 30 January 1866
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK

... surgeons be allowed to retire on 13s. 6d. a day after twenty years' service. Opera in English will shortly be given at Drury. lane theatre, with Mr. Benedict as conductor. A very influential meeting on railway reform 'ha been held in the Mansion-house ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1866
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1383 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

MISCHIEVOUS PARLIAMENTARY INFLUENCES

... concerned. Theatri- cal mnonopoles were knocked upon the head when cer- tain privileges were taken from the patent theatres of Drury Lane and Co-vent Garden. Some few years back tragedy and high-class comedy could not be performed in any other emetrepolitan ...

Published: Sunday 25 March 1866
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1442 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER

... that young and unfortunate man convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of stealing a silver spoon froma the Albion Tavern, near Drury Lane Theatre. Tais young fellow-the son, we are told, of a major in the English army-was in the habit of dining at this well-known ...

Published: Sunday 03 June 1866
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1492 | Page: 5 | 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