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THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... find anything more magnificent. Dayes, Caney, Wiguey, and others are the names of those to whom these results are due. It speaks wellfor their inventive genius, and the training which they or some of them have received at the Covent- garden Theatre. The ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7186 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Advertisements & Notices

... Ilumber Music Hall, Great Grimsby. Testimonial:-l Mcchanics' llstitute, Huall, December 29th, 1869. 1 have great pleasure in speaking in the higtsest terms of Messrs Harris and Kirk, as good Negro comedians, dancers, and Instrumentalists. They have proved ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4778 | Page: 1 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

AQUATICS

... Moot/slyl1 Magazine for this month contains an article entitled ' The University Rowing Match,' the writer of which seems to speak as by our authority. Styling himself the ' Secretary' of the Harvard Four, he professes to ' put the story in the light in ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 3 | Tags: Sports and Games 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... the annual oratorio, Handel's Messiah, and, takeing into consideration that the whole was conduceed by native tallent, it speaks well for the musical ability of the town. We -may particolarly mention Misses Hall, Bailey, and Prestwich, als Messrs Cilarles ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 24190 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... THE RAGLAN. In giving a detailed account of the number of artistes and their doings at this Hall, may we be pardoned for speaking our minds in a tone compatible with the expressions of public approval or dis- sent, and, instead of following up with a ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8206 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

... in a black framne. Zemira keeps the appointment made for her by her father, and, far from expressing horror at the Beast, speaks first in a pity- ing, and next in a loving, tone. The Prince then recovers his shape, and, with his devoted B-eauty and ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 26788 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RACING NOTES, WINNING HORSES, &c

... is the best horse in his dis- trict, though his public form reads a bit better than that of the other pair named. If rumour speaks truly, the investments upon the good-looking son of Knowsley have emanated from the public. which is always impressed with ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2091 | Page: 3 | Tags: Sports and Games 

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... stage. As rendered at the Walaut-street Theatre, it is thronghout the best-acted drama of the day. Of Miss Bateman we car- not speak too highly. Her Mary Warner is a picture of marvellous fidelity. The scene in her own room, in which she tries to dissuade ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3731 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GRAND COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO MR. CHARLES MATHEWS

... priceless in his eyes, he has declined D to make any charge for them. S The WIGS of Mr CLARKSON will speak for themselves, and in the T ase of Lord Burleigh will speak for him also. e The PitOAnoosE3 being in the handsomest manner supplied gratuitously by Mr RIMOIEL ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4576 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... that no such meetings would be allowed in Rome. This seems childish in the extreme, unless the Bishops are to be forbidden to speak to one another in a church or elsewhere-how can a dozen gentlemen be prevented fromn exchanging ideas, unless by throwing the ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2117 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE ALHAMBRA

... peculiar readiness to the picturesque, are set off by a background of very charming scenery, amid which the eye can, so to speak, go for a ramble, if at any moment it should become inattentive to the action on the stage The clever Manley family, whose ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 512 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... effective, sect reflects high credit ont M. Duheis, by whom it was dosigoed, and whose work it is. It is ocarcaly, possihle to speak in tercos too cocci- snendatory ol tan llarloquinlade. Messrs Harry Rtitelle and NV. Langley. thle Clown andt ilarequin. area ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 23854 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture