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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. ROB ROY, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. The production of Pococke' dramatic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's charming novel will probably crowd Drury Lane Theatre for some time to come. Mr. Sims Reeves having been advertised to fill the part ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... thus faintly suggested belonged the character of Scott's Bob Roy; and the melodrama founded on that novel, as now acted at Drury Lane, is touched with the spirit of it. When, in the final chorus of praise to Rob Roy Macgregor, 0, we hear how Still he ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... eliii -t ion found in one face, his entertain- tnent i' aiuti' d ttnIiqUe. Mr. it' U- tts .> i t In playing Shylock at Drury Lane . a, 1 m-1 lvetk, but the personation of the V' -i rtai lly not one of his happiest efforzs. It m, r, t- rfortuance, because ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUYLIC AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE. After the perfcrmance of Goethe's play of Faust on Monday night there was produced a. burlesque musical sketoh, taken from the French, and called Wanted, Husbands for Six, which has been adapted by Mr. Charles Kenney ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... proceeding to Paris during the Ex ibition. A Paris letter says:- That energetic entrepreneur, Mr. E. T. Smith, late lessee of Drury Lane, has taken a large chateau, with numberless bedrooms, close to Asnieres, and there he undertakes to lodge and feed visitors ...

The Late Henry B. Webb,

... The Late henry B. Webb, i Eleven years Manager of the Queen's Theatre, Dublin, and recently a maemlber of the ecompany at Drury-lane Theatre, died on the 15th of Januay, 187, leving ive yung bys ( aryinfrom five to twelve years age) totally nprovided for ...

Published: Sunday 03 March 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Late Henry B. Webb,

... The Late Henry B. Webb, Eleven years Manager of the Queen's The atre, Dublin, and recently a member of the company at Drury-lane Theatre, died ol the 15th of January, 167, leaving live young boys (varying from live to twelve years of age) totally unprovided ...

Published: Sunday 10 March 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1178 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Royal General Theatrical Fund

... co-operate and work together as they have always done The annual benefit of the Royal General Theatrical Fudd takes place at Drury-lane next Thursday morning, when another reiat combination of artistes, such as that which assembled ola the occa. sion of the ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Drama

... known north of the Tweed, and'partionlarly a in Glasgow, is no doubt the primanry cause of the revival ce of Rob Roy at Drury-lane-a cause strengthened bybthe oe possession of a comedian like Mr. Phelps, who hashowb ' .. his remarkable capacity for Scotch ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... situations of the novel are reproduced in a 'very ikilful manier, and the'result is some striking and popular scenes. k At Drury-lane the piece is admirably put upon the stage, and is capi- tallyacted throughout. The audience on Saturday was in the best ...

Drama

... . I., D I DRURY-LANE. The School for Scanidal with Mr. Phelps and Mrs. Hermann Vezin as Sir Peter and Lady Tasie, evasi revived at this house last night, and will be played during the week. The two Surfacss, Charles eaud Joseph, are represented by Mr ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... THE LONDOIN THEATRIES. I - DRURY-LANE.-The operatic drama of Rob Roy has been repeated through the week to very good houses. Owing to Mr. T. Powrie having.seriously sprained his ankle in the Tolbooth Sceneon the first night of representation, that gentleman ...

Published: Sunday 31 March 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3823 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture