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THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V

... a spirited and earnest performance. Master Grattan plays the Boy-Falstafi's Boy -with great vivacity and intelligence. He is a lad of much promise, and may do excellent work as an actor. Mr. Ryder plays John Bates, the soldier, with a straightforward ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... entitled The Forn World, by Francis GeorgeoHeath (Sampson Low aud Co.), and the other beinga new and enlarged edition of Mr. John Simit 's well-known Ferns, British and MIodert (Hardwick and Boguo)-.betokens the, popularity of the cultivation of these ...

YESTERDAY'S THEATRICALS

... from the top of a van and fractured his skull. John Howes, of Bun-, hill-row, was also admitted. The little fellow was' swinging on the railings in Coleman-street, when he slipped down and broke his arm. THE PRINCESS ALICE. - ANOTHER DIFFICULTY WITH PROPERTY ...

THE ENGLISH IN IRELAND.*

... large quantities of pikes and other arms, which were carefully concealed, General Lake (afterwards Lord Lake) and. Sir Judkin Fitzgerald compelled persons whom they knew to be in the secret to discover the hidden arms by flogging them till they confessed ...

THE QUEEN'S THEATRE

... as his own, and becomes the John O'Fergus of the drama. The throttled child, the brother, or foster brother, we are uncertain which, of the kidnapped child grows up into the Omadhaun. At the opening of the play we find John O'Fergus courting the inevitable ...

DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... whose gallant bearing, maunly action, antivigorous style of elocution appeared to please everybody. Miss Grattan as the Prince of Wales, and Master Grattan as the Duke of York, showed ability far in advance of their years, the last-named gaining a well-merited ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2535 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE QUEEN'S THEATRE

... his olin, and becomes the John O'l'ergus of the drama. The throttled child, the brother, or foster brother, we are uncertain which, of the kidnapped child grows up into the ?? Omadhaun. At the o;)ening of time play we find John ()'IFergus coorting ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... BELLS ANNuAL. There are contributions by George Augustus Sala, George Manville Fenn, Percy B. St. John, A. Phillips, Charles H. Ross, Henry P. Grattan, .John Hollovay, T. H. Reynoldson, Henry Baker, and J. Redding Ware. The stories are respec- tively illus ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... large and enthusiastic audience, Mrs. John Wood's Farewell Benefit. A full and fashionable audience assembled at the Adelphi on Thursday night to do honour to the talent of that charming and vivacious actress Mrs. John Wood, previous to ler departure for ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3507 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY

... Desmond and O'Neil had passed. The age of Grattan and of O'Connell had begun. Memoirs of Grattan and O'Connell fill the greater part of Mr Lecky's volume, though he connects Swift's genera- tion with Grattan's by a short account of the work of Henry ...

PLANCHE'S RECOLLECTIONS

... season of 1820 21. Peacock's novel of Maid Marian was turned into an opera with music by Bishop, and the production of King John at Covent Garden with new and correct costumes and scenery was carefully supervised, this being the first attempt at an accurate ...

LITERATURE

... obbaining from general praetitioners in the border counties accurate notes of ODD operations, such as amputation of a leg or an arm, arformed within a given time, in the homes of the suf- ererv, mauy of them peasants and others workmen in towYns. A careful ...