... kind. As a rule, 'however, adverse criticism does not do gocd.to the thing 'criticised; and as a fact the attendance at Drury Lane has greatly diminished since the cotitroversy. We believe that the falling off in the numbers of the audience was first ...

... charged, before Mr. Vaughan, with seing drunk during his employment. Harry Boleno, the ,opular clown of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, deposed hat on the previous night he employed the prisoner o drive him and a lady to their respective homes. Vhen in C ...

... 1~I 0AR{ D'8 IWi .-Oct- genaclane may remrembor.r the face eo faithfully de- lineated ly Crukshank ippearing in a box t Drury. lane or Covent-garden, on theoccesion of 5new ac- tor's firib appeai~aneetb~e'manager proupting her to -say that the debuhtat ...

... strong support. Advertising is certainly making progress. The burlesques and panto- mnimes are full of tradesmen's puffs. At Drury Lane a well-known firm of haberdashers have a scene to themselves for the exhibition of their Christmas goods, while Covent Garden ...

... will join the company at the 'Ibeatre at Christmas. A play by Mr. Andrew Hiali~lay will probably succeed 1olillotil at Drury Lane. The claimarnt to the CaUiperiluwn estates, residing ae Noevcastle'on-Tyne is likely to :tccpt aL coupronoi.,ei, A Vienna ...

... and leave Her Maljesty's Theatre uneccuiried. There will, ed however, ho an opposition, as a company is to be organised at Drury Lane. e- Mr. Mhillais, B.A., the great painter (says a New York ats paper), was recently requested to unrdertake the porbrrilt ...

... Then indeed great works, greatly acted, and splendidly produced were served up to the critical world of London; then indeed Drury Lane showed its empty benches and Covent Garden went to the wall. These were the palmy days. These were the Shakspearian times ...

... tlsoughts which a life of such embarrass- . rlet brought with it was in those avocations which I boisdaty, as a member of the Drury Lane committee, 1 iseosoil uplson him, and here, in this most aumluky t smnection with the theatre, one of the fatalities of ...

... the new theatre and , winter garden in Leicester-square will seat 6000 people. .The stage is ten feet deeper than that of Drury Lane Theatre; and fitted with the most recent scientific 1, appliances. Separate staircases will be provided for C each of the ...

... negotiations, it was found that Mr. Gye had possession both of Covent Garden and the Hay- market. Mr. Mapleson had thus only Drury Lane to fall back upon. This theatre is in a terrible state of dinginess and dilapidation. It is in the hands of a Committee ...

... ugly facts iii support of the statement. Mr. Chatterton is not the only manager who has failed to make Shakspeare pay. A Drury Lane manager can only keel) himself going by a constant succession of very large audiences, and it must be admitted that there ...

... dravln film the lowest quarters of London. Costermongers, orange vend('ors, l cpins of o) ster-stalls, supernumeraries froam Drury Lane, sweeps, *].cibhicls, looner girls--such I found on inquiry wvere tile professions :o c\hich the 1o10-1pickers as a rule ...