... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... idea of the Railroad to Ruin, but it is a different mratter at Drury Lane. Very young girls are not brought either to the Opera or to the entertainments of Mdmle. Schneider. Drury Lane always has been a sort of middle-class family house, patronized by ...

... publishes a letter from Mr. F. B. Chatterton, in which that gentlemian says that, having been for seven years manager of Drury Lane Theatre, he has for six years done his utmost to provide the public with the legitimate, drama. He has put the best plays ...

... suggest themselves. First, there is the Walpurgis Night, of which a good deal was made (Mendelssohn's music aiding) at Drury Lane in the very original adapta- tion of Faust produced at that theatre two or three years ago. Then there is the apparition ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 doubt. WVe recently adverted ...

... Leopold, accompanied by Sir John Burgoyne, visited the Tower yesterday afternoon. In the evening Princess Beatrice went to Drury Lane Theatre. Hassan Pasha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, and his governor, Colonel Gamble, were presented to her Majesty yesterday ...