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PANTOMIMES

... impatience by the force of ennui. A speaking panto- mime such as this one is not unlike a flying waggon, &c. &c. Harlequin versus Slsiksfseare was generally voted dreary and a failure, and Leigh Hunt mentions another speaking pantomime, called Harlequin ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1356 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... said I knew Mr. Coawel was in the * ear, speaking to and endeavouring to rouse me,-there- fore conlsciousuess and hearing had returned. I then heard him speak more emplatically, but could not see, . speak, or move. I heard him again say, Do try; now ...

LORD BROUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... when he speaks of the virtues of the clans of Struan and Kinloch- Moidart, whose Celtic fire and genius saved him from the disgrace of being nothing better than a sluggish, torpid, prosperous English squire. Of hismaternalgrandmother he speaks with en ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1900 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CRYSTAL PALACE WEDNESDAY CONCERT

... new singers made their first appearance in public, Miss Harmon, a young soprano, and Mr. J. Greenhill, a new tenor. We can speak of the lady most favourably, since she possesses a voice of most agreeable quality, and has a good ear and decided intelligence ...

Published: Sunday 05 March 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... contrary, in some respects, he felt that that was a most unhappy moment, chiefly because, through not being good at public speaking,' he feated that he should not be able to express his thanks to his friends as he ought, and would like to do. Still he could ...

Published: Sunday 02 April 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A THEATRICAL QUESTION

... called out Speak up, When he had done so, P. C. Bampton, 381 E., tapped him on the shoulder, and requested him to be quiet. Plain- tiffobserved that he had a right to do what he had done, and he again called upon the performers to speak up. He was ...

Published: Sunday 11 June 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2643 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A Scene at the Queen's Theatre

... wished to hear ToonsTaylor's history.' The constabses, who alleged that there was no necessity for tle defendant to oay speak up, as every word could be heari, removed him from the Theatre and took him to the police-statin.il Mr. Vaughan asked the ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE RIVAL BLUES

... the toss; They chatter of keeping together, Of errors in steering across. Each feels that her own crew is winning, And speaks of a glorious spurt; They know that to catch the beginning, Is good for a rower-or flirt! Then flutters the indigo streamer ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Belfast Theatre

... months since I last addressed you-barring about half-an-hour ago (a laugh)-speaking then from the boards of the old Theatre, the birthplace of an enterprise w-hic has now, so to speak, entombed it. I promised you a new, commodious, and hand- some Theatre; ...

Published: Sunday 08 October 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1045 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICALS IN HUNGARY

... letter, therefore, I may probably again have occasion to speak of their qualifications. As regards the gentlemen members of our opera company I really think the least said the better for honestly speaking there is not one singlegood voice among them. Our primo ...

Published: Sunday 15 January 1871
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ENGLAND

... putable liberty to abstain from writing a philosophical treatise, has put in some further pleas, of which we must venture to speak. He says in the ifirst place: Merely to have given my own conclusions or my own theories would have been easier to me, and ...

SPIRITUALISM

... interpose between the mover and the thing to be moved an indicator of any kind. The index is, so to speak, attached to the wrong end of the beam; and, to speak frankly also, experiments conducted by Mr. Home, as these were, are by that very fact now suspicious ...