... the chango-call it reform or retrogression, as you (I will-if Bosing Night had not been niarked by the pro- i ductioe at Drury Lane of Mr. Blaiichard's twenty-sixth 1 'graild comic Christmas annuaL It was impossible to I avoid feeling that no other ...

... tastio dance, and Morgians had carolled through her last oc ditty, it was not difflioult for the observant visitor to si Drury Lane yesterday night to judge the effect pro- M duced upon the playgocre assembled in thousands to wit- tl ness Mr. E. L. Blancbard's ...

... band were playing. This year's pantomimo open- t tn7 is, of course, fnrnished by Mr. E. L. Blan- ibard, who. has written Drury-lane pantomimes for )he last twenty-four years, and who understands he exigencies and resources of the theatre. Something, iwever ...

... -lines which afford a marked contrast to their writer's treatment of tho fairy story told by him last night upon the stage of Drury Lane, No ; attempt is there made to endow with meck dignity the heroine of the Countess ?? pretty tale, and The 71',ite C'a's ...

... THE, OLOSING OF DRURY OI EDITOR OP TIDU nM 11% Stnup-Rving been connected with the Royal Drury Lane for a great number of yesra, perhaps permit me to say a few words on tue closing of the tleatre. I have, I am sorry from the troubles of a theatre more ...

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... a &ADIm-x%-!, r DNB13T ?? me htoritook her 6enft Iit night ati ?? -Drury Lane, Theo thoaske a welflegiuoh it wsalyv. io leansmvw ftd *er, ,eanthsngto, semrk~edaso nese ef of theaandience; ftimaimre ?? *Jptls te isste~regtwf tdt w~hisejltbtedo th~e W, ...

... as his guests. wlo oclock yesterday wvas the appointed hour, but long betore that time the asneet of thlu entrancee to Drury Lane Theatre bitokoned the expectation of somuething uinusual. Little groups of loiterers ?? gradually forned into a considerable ...

... her wonted position at Drury Lane. Mdile. 'I4tieud' appearance was relied upon as one of the chief elements of success for the past season at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, r'on Mr. Maple- R son'sremoval there from Drury Lane but a painfulillness di ...

... fact we may whisper that the same assistants Tb scred for the futore as for the present work-. namely, the writer of the Drury Lane pantomimes, a etleman on the staff of the Courf Josurnal, and a osle- cra.ted nmacldoctor~ who is in the habit of making ...

... they have not been removed already. In ?? is about four feet broad,with narrower beadways leading into Drury- lane and Wild-street- the Drury-lane slums may well compare with the alleys, such as Frying- pan-allev, which till within a few years opened ...

... eonnected with theatrical affaiis was aware of tha very great responsibility which tho lossee of so gigantic a col- cern as Drury Lane had to bear. He (the Chairman) was one of the proprietors of the theatre, and ho could say from personal experience that ...