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... each half-ounce' After the same date letters for Greece will be chargeable with reduced rates of postage. The Pantomime at Drury-lane founded on the well known story of Beauty and the Beast, and that at Covent-garden is Yellow Dwarf, or Harlequin Cupid ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3512 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE. The Beauty and the Beast; or, Harlequin and Old Mother Bunch, was performed Monday night before an audience which crowded Drury lane Theatre with, not a seat spare. This title does indeed include the entare performance ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2579 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A community of nnns at Oberlentendorf, in Germany, which had established n cloth manufactory in their convent, ..

... The Hunchback. Severe indisposition enforced his retirement from the stage in 1865, when he had complimentary benefit at Drury Lane Theatre. Jckior Conservative Club. —On Wednesday evening a meeting of the promoters and candidates for the membership of ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5177 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, and Art

... to open the house. Now that the determination not to open Her Majesty's for the performance opera has been arrived at, Drury Lane will be converted into opera house. We shall then have two Operas running, as course Covent Garden will also open for the ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3349 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WINDSOR I’ETTY SESSIONS

... nnett, medical officer of St. Giles’s Workhouse, said he was called to deceased on Sun- day morni , at No. 6, Barley-court, Drury lane. He found the child bad been dead some hours. The cause of death was suffocation by drowning. The jury it a very suspic- ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1870
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3719 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Literature Science, and Art

... News. The Emperor Napoleon has been elected honorary member Rhine Antiquarian Society. Mignon is to be produced at the Drury Lane Opera, with MdUe. Nilsson and M. Faure. Mr. Bepworth Dixon is engaged on new work about Eussia to published in the spring ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3689 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, and Art

... D. 1505. The price demanded for the picture is a million francs. The report presented to a meeting of the proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre Monday stated that the receipts of the year, to the 31«t December last, including a balance of £1,502 165.4d.0n ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3176 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Miss Bardett Coutts, who is now residing at Torqu-iy. has given to the local Emigration Society the sum of £200

... Azamat-Batuk. Mr. Boucicault was the author of Formosa, piece that obtained much popularity. It had been removed from Drury-lane Theatre to make way for the pantomime, and is now being played at the Princess's Theatre. One paragraph of the letter at ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2558 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, and Art

... Garden and Drury Lane. Covent Garden will opeD under the joint direction of Messrs. Gye and Mapleson Tuesday, the 29th inst. Among the new operas, new at least to the English public, which are to be be brought out this season at Drury Lane, are Mozart's ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2901 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The New Grammar School.—The town has been mapped out into districts, and persons have been appointed to canvass ..

... Elliot Galer—the latter better known as Miss Fanny Keeves—both of whom sustained the leading characters at Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres, when the English Opera was established there few seasons back. Prima Donna will be Mad. Haigh Dyer, of whom report ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1870
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LONDON CITY MISSION. READING AUXILIARY. ON TUESDAY EVEN G, March 22nd, 1870 a PUBLIC MEETING will (D.V.) held ..

... will be supported by the following Principal Artistes: Madame Haigh Dyer (Prima Donna Assoluta, of the Royal English Opera, Drury Lane), Mademoiselle Mariani (Prima Donna), Miss Theresa Greenway and Miss Fanny Reeves, Mrs Elliot Galer, (Principal Contralto ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1870
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1546 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, READINti. Proprietor.... Mr. Elliot Galer. MR. ELLIOT GALER begs to announce the Nobility, ..

... will be supported by the following Principal Artistes : Madame HAIGH DYER (Prima Donna Assoluta,of ths Royal English Opera, Drury Lane). Mademoiselle MARIANI (Prima Donna). Miss THERESA GREENWAY, and Miss FANNY REEVES (Mrs. Elliot Galer) —Principal Contralto ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1533 | Page: 1 | Tags: none