THE PANTOMIMES

... field, if with some diminution of force. In Western London pantomimes have been this season produced only at Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and the Lyceum, unless we journey so far west or north-west as to include in our list the new Royal Alfred, late the Marylebone ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
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FORMOSA

... and did verify each of my facts over and over agaim I should observe that I am not a' dramatic oritic, and that I visited Drury Lane without a thought of adding to the correspon- dence to which Mr. Bouoicault's bold experiment has given rise. Indeed, I ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1869
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1553 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... will allow me to state that the piece to which you evidently refer is the comedy entitled the Drummer, pro- -duced at Drury Lane in 17 I6. Here the personage who gives the title to this piece is an honest fellow, whose object in beating a drum and thus ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE SUEZ CANAL

... Goodrick. hiRrc;R AND DISORDERLY.-Ja11e Haycock (25), prosti- tute, court, Drury Lane, was charged with being drunll snd disorderly, and with using ohscone language in Drury Lane. She was an old offender, and was committed for a monthb JUVENcLE TsstOEvs ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1200 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ORGANISATION OF CHARITY

... contemplation to devote Her Majesty's Theatre exclusively to the non-lyric drama. That there will be an Italian Opera at Drury Lane Theatre, under the direction of Mr George Wood, is, however, upon the best authority, beyond a ?? Xoal GCazette. * A writer ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1869
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A PARLIAMENTARY PANTOMIME

... A PAULI!ANNTARY PANTOMIME. During the Christmas season, the pantomimes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres have attracted immense multitudes to those houses. The press praised the brilliancy of the scenery, painted by Messrs. Beverley and Morgan ...

Published: Sunday 28 February 1869
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1221 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SHAKESPEARE OR BOUCICAULT

... publishes a letter from Mr. F. B. Chat, terton, in which that gentleman says that, having been for seven years manager of Drury Lane Theatre, lie has for six years done his utmost to pro. vide the public with the legitimate drama. He has put his best ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 713 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... vandalism could be prevented. There has been a tempest in a teapot about the play of Formosa, now being represented at Drury Lane, certain of the critics having spoken of the piece as one of an im- moral tendency. Perhaps the worst that can be brought ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2025 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRONBRIDGE

... the rew theatre and winter garden in Leicester Square will seat 6,000 people, The stage is ten feet deeper than that of Drury Lane Theatre, and fitted with the most recent scientilic ap- pliances. Separate staircases will be provided for each of the four ...

Published: Monday 06 December 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 906 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NEW BURLESQUES

... French origin. Only the other day it formed the groundwork of the operetta The Contrabandist. In r827 it appeared at Drury Lane as the farce of The Illustrious Stranger, in which Liston's Peter Bowbell was once so famous a character. . In the same ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1869
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

AN ELECTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

... .-Advertisiro is crl.I . taintiy mlakiityg progness. The brl-n3 i ies and pantomimes are full of tradesmnen's pufLs. At Drury Lane a well-knowu it-m of haberdashcrs haave a scene to themselves for the exhibition of their Christmas goods, vwhile Covent ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1869
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1085 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MODERN DOMESTIC SERVANTS

... and Cometh up as a Flower have long been placed in your index expirgatorius-iind you never went to see For. mosa at Drury lane. But other heads of families are not so careful, and the nursemaid, you see, had not the advantage of your advice in her ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1869
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1087 | Page: 7 | Tags: News