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REBECCA AT DRURY LANE

... ' BEBECCA AT DRURY LANE. The picture of the hapless Jewish maiden has ever been one of the most attractive in the long series of the Waverley gallery. Thackeray has expatiated on the enthusiasm that every generous schoolboy has felt in her cause. She ...

HISTORICAL DRAMA AT DRURY LANE

... HISTORICAL DRAMA AT DRURY LANE. MR. WILLS has been unhappy in his selection of Peveril of the Peakl for the groundwork of his new historical play, and still more unhappy, we think, in the superstructure which he has erected upon thi3 foundation. The ...

ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE

... ITALIAAT OPERA, DRURY LANE. THERE is something so remarkable in the fact that an operetta by Weber and an opera by Mozart should both have remained untouched by our managers until the present day, that the first question one feels inclined to ask respecting ...

ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE

... ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE. MDLLE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, whose genius specially fits her for the repre- sentation of sentimental parts, is never heard to more advantage than in the chaimingly sentimental part of Lucia, which she undertook on the occasion ...

THE BALFE STATUE IN DRURY LANE THEATRE

... T L BAFE STATUE IN DRURY LANEI I .TEAER Yesterday afternoon .the vestibule of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, was crowded with the representatives of the musical and dramatic arts and of society to witndess the aeremonial unveiling of the Balfe statue ...

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE. ABU HASSAN AND L'OCA DEL CAIRO. The two works produced for the first time in this country on the 12th instant, though not of great magnitude or merit, are yet too important to be passed over in silence. A bz Hassctm was ...

DRAMA

... better go to Drury Lane Theatre, and if they succeed in getting in, they will obtain their wish, and in all probability-unless very hard to please indeed-pass an exceedingly pleasant evening. It would be perhaps invidious to say that the Drury Lane pantomime ...

VIRGINIUS

... Dennis's Appius and Virginia was played at Drury Lane in 1709, but with ill-success, although the dramatist had invented for his work a new kind of stage thunder. Garrick appeared as Virginius at Drury Lane in 1754 in a dull tragedy by one Henry Crisp ...

THEATRES

... A,5I IT is customary to regard the re-opening of DRURY LANE Theatre in the autumn as marking the commencement of the theatrical season ; but the custom seems to be more connected with tradition than with anything in the actual condition of dramatic affairs ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1250 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... pantomi that the Christmas entertainment, both at Drury Lane and Covt Garden, is somewhat weak in its opening story, and by no means remarkable for originality of idea in its grand transforma- tions. At Drury Lane Mr. Blanchard's 7ack in the Box is a little ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... stage of Covent Garden or Drury Lane, or the stage of the Coburg Theatre ?-Certainly a large stage. you prefer Drury Lane ?-Yes. Have you not found that you act quite as efiectively at the Hay- market as when you acted at Drury Lane P-I do not consider it ...

DRAMA

... DRAMAJ DRURY LANB. Although stalls and boxes at Drury Lane are not as a rule fally occupied just no0w, until shortly before the rise of the curtain on the new pantomime-wo beg Mr. Blancherd's pardon, on tho new comio Christ- mas annual of Cinderalla-less ...