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Deuky Lane.—The truth is that the whole thin? is bygone and anachronistic. Drury Lane Theatre, with its ..

... Deuky Lane.—The truth is that the whole thin? is bygone and anachronistic. Drury Lane Theatre, with its enormous rent, its committee, its secretary— worthy old gentleman, but a kind of dramatic dodoits architect,its renters, and all the rest of ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lady Portsmouth and no fewer than ten members of the family arc suffering from measles Eggesford. The Pope has ..

... ample exercise. Bankruptcy of Mr Chatterton of Drury Lane Theatre. —At the London Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, the case of Mr F. R. Chatterton, who is the lessee and manager of the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, and late of the Princess's and the Adelphi, ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Prime Minister has appointed Sir Richard Wallace to the vacant trusteeship of the National Portrait Gallery ..

... himself of the respite to put his affairs in order. _ T Strike of tee Pantomimists at Drury .lane Theatre. strike of a peculiar nature occurred on Tuesday night the Drury Lane Theatre, London. Mr Chatterton, the lessee of the theatre, has not found the pantomime ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 974 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SECOND EDITION. EXPRESS Oficc, 6 p.m. DEATH OF MR BUCKS TONE. London. Friday. Mr J. b. Buckstone, the famous ..

... during the first season of Madame Vestris's management, and another at Drury Lane, under Mr Bunn, where he played Wormwood in the Lottery Ticket, and other comedy At Drury Lane produced Popping the Question, Oui Mary Ann, and other well known ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S SHIPPING

... Frontera de Tabasco. A benefit has been organised on behalf of Mr E. L. Blanchard, the well-known writer, the author of all the Drury Lane Annuals, the pantomimes have been called, for nine-and-twenty years past. Wednesday afternoon, April 9, is the time fixed ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Height of Advertising Skill.—A p'ceoi was picked up at Saint-Mande last Monday, with the following despatch ..

... Shocking Death op a Little Girl.—On Friday night a little girl named Eliza Bryant, whose parents live in Hentler's Court, Drury Lane, was selling th# new dynamite pipe lights in Leicester Square, when, some means, quantity of the dynamite paper in her pockets ...

Published: Monday 29 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Derby Town Council bave resolved to purchase the water works of the town for 13351,000. The Council were going

... rapid consumption removing from the world an actor whose decease will be widely regretted. He first appeared in London at Drury Lane on October 7, 1852, as Fathom, in the play of the Hunchbank, after some three years' provincial experience of the stage ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS

... been in the regiment in the celebrated Balaclava charge. There are two sides of every question, and the sudden closing of Drury Lane .is exception to the general rule. The postscript of Mr Fred. Vokes's letter to the Era on Sunday is particularly apposite ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES

... Glasgow is also enjoying a revival of thd national drama, ' Rob ! Roy. Let us hope, not over-elaborated. The lessee of Drury Lane Theatre has come to grief, and everybody says it is the theatrical white elephant. The loss of Her Majesty's Opera, which ...

Published: Tuesday 18 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 982 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Sucar «ix sum of £640,695 10s 4a was paid in the year ended the 31st of March last as Excise

... his eighty-fourth year on Saturday next, having been born on Oct. 25th, 1795. He made his first appearance as Laertes at Drury Lane, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1828, Young playing Hamlet. Miss Fanny Kelly was the Ophelia, and Mr Benjamin Webster, who then played ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Aberdeen Evening Express

... having robbed his master, Charles Partridge, of four five-pound notes, while they were driving in a cab from the City to Drury Lane. The prosecuter, in giving his evidence of the theft, stated that he was connected with an aquarium, and that he had recently ...

Published: Tuesday 11 November 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1360 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JOTTINGS

... For though his name's Winter, his actions are Summary. Sheridan once fell into a coal-cellar on his way home after supping Drury Lane, and his abuse of the vendor for not keeping a light the cellar door was warmly retorted by the man's wife. Confound it ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1379 | Page: 4 | Tags: none