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Mr. TOM TAYLOR and the DRAMA in LEEDS

... community. (Hear, hear.) And he said this in Leeds, knowing that he was speaking in the teeth ui the prejudice of a powerful and influential body among them; knowing that he was speaking in the presence of a Proprietor of the principal paper amongst them ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY'S

... difficulties with his arms, those awkward appendages, which will interfere with the comfort of amateurs. Whenever he had to speak he quietly folded them, and perhaps, as he could not get rid of them altogether, this was the safest course to adopt. The Don ...

Published: Sunday 25 May 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Miss EDITH GRAY as Juliet, at the Theatre Roy

... words she speaks, and is at - to make her audience appreoiate them too. If ahe goes sometimes tradition. you believe it is not from ignorance but from inteation, to by herself or directed by her teachers. Thus wre cannot, indeed we not speak of her performance ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE THEATRE

... too rapid and jerky utterance, which renders a little of her speech somewhat unintelligible. But, taken altogether, we may speak of her impersonation as a really wonderful and praise- worthy performance. In the scene in which, a; the pointof the pistol ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1324 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OLYMPIC THEATRE

... Beaumarchais. A piece played constantly in admirable style for ninety years in France could not be taken up by the roots-so to speak -and transplanted in a foreign soil without considerable pruning. TiLe Schoest for Intrigute would have gained immensely if ...

Published: Sunday 21 December 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 840 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... critiques which have appeared respecting Miss VWallis's impersenstion of Cleopatra in the recent Diary-lane revival. LIFE. -In speaking of the production of this drama-the work of Mr J. Brockbank-at the Theatre Royal, Cambridge, last week, we stated that it ...

Published: Sunday 19 October 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MORE AMATEURS at ST GEORGE'S HALL

... And frst let us speak of Sir Peter Teazle. This important part was entrusted to Mr Elkington, of whom we may say that, although he exhibited some intelligence in his interpretation of the text, he altogether failed to look or to speak as an old man. Indeed ...

Published: Sunday 09 March 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 906 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR and MRS BILLINGTON in the Provinces in H. J. Byron's New Comedy Drama CHAINED TO THE OAR

... Mlcyrick, a most accosplished actress ; aid as Faniiiy Merricour AMiss B]anche Athertog, a young actress, lools pretty, and speaks her lines most ?? k Aidueetisec, Septemeber' 0th. IIr l3illiegton's coscepticie of the character of Fnank Diucond was most ...

Published: Sunday 09 November 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1357 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... defending one, will do well to consult this concise work. To have brought within such reasonable compass the essence, so to speak, of Blackstone s elaborate work must have been a severe task, and we trust the author will be rewarded according to his merits ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 996 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... THEY DRAMA IN AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 9, 1873.-It is still impossible to speak in the past tense of any local Theatrical incident of importance. Nothing has occurred to call attention to the stage, or cause any- body to ...

Published: Sunday 24 August 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1639 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... the most of a somewhat paltry part. Altogether the representation is in every sense a remarkable one, and its pro- duction speaks well for the present state of the stage in Paris. GYMNASO.-Moliere's Ecole des Femmes at this Iheatre is the second reproduction ...

Published: Sunday 02 November 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1757 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OUR CARPET BAG

... get disgusted at anything, acd cannot have had sensitive noses. Inthetinse of Rabelais therewas not much clean- liness to speak of. Remember tlat they were hardly out of the middle age, and that in the middle age man lived on a dunghill. Above them on ...

Published: Sunday 28 December 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture