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MUSIC ABROAD

... about in marvellous style. The action of the piece, he says, takes place dans un cadre curieur, vivant, Pittoresque. He speaks of the int&ret toujours ardent, renouveig pa~y5itant dece polme agissant et Passiond, ?? and finally becomes enthusiastic ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... distinctly says, speaking of the temptation to partiality, if he had yielded to this all but infallible temptation, and boldly taken up Elizabeth's standard. He seems unable to compre- hend the possibility of a historian wishing to speak plainly about ...

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 

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 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... Wybert Reeve will be this (Saturday) evening produced at the OLYMPIC and CIIARING-CrlosS THEATRES. Of the result we shall speak in our later Edition. ASTLEY'S.-Tihe Pantomime of Jack and the Bean Stalk is now in complete working order and improving upon ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1512 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRE

... irreverence inseparable from the proceeding will appear beyond the hope of pardon-the whimsical allegory, comparatively speaking, and bearing in mind previous achievements in the same line, is without offence; although, no doubt, to the most case-hardened ...

DRAMA

... alleged weaknesses and vanities of the sex. Thke Peincess is a subject worth returning to, and we may take an opportunity of speaking in detail of the per- formers engaged in it. The company is remarkably strong, iin female talent at least. On the whole Mr ...

MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS

... chiefly remarkable for ?? in which the composer seems to have anticipated the development of his genius. The annotated programme speaks of it as characterized by magnificent pathos, and s0 it is ; while at the same time the movement shows that original and ...

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CREOLE GRAMMAR

... interpreting of Creole into English is often badly performed, and that the Catholic clergy, the natural pastors of the Creole-speaking classes, by addressing the people in pure French, which is for the most part unintelligible to them, instead of in their ...

MR. CHARLES MATHEWS

... which expression of some kind was very necessary to it; its inflamed nature de- manded imperatively the blood-letting, so to speak, of benefits and banquets. And this popularity, though to some it may seem excessive -without including among these the stringent ...