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AMATEURS AT THE ALEXANDRA THEATRE

... which Mr West- lake was requested by his kind friends in front to speak up, so that they could hear him. Mr Westlake seemed rather depressed in spirits, and could not or did not speak up. His appearance was gentlemanly, and that is as much as we can ...

Published: Sunday 05 July 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Mdlle NITA DE CASTRO, Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham

... 27th, 1S74. The Fern Fairy, as impersonated by Seiiora Nita de Castro-who, although she bears a foreign name, speaks capital English, and speaks every word distinctly--is an excellentand graceful chararter all through the piece. With a voice of great power ...

Published: Sunday 15 March 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICALS IN AUSTRALIA

... played at home, the furniture set alone beiog estimated as wcrbh betwveeni s700 aisd g800. It would be imipossible for me to speak in too high teraics of praise for the able mianner in which Ahr Dasscpier as Juliatc Gray, and Mliss Eleanor Carey as Mercy ...

Published: Sunday 26 April 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

IMPROMPTU DRAMATIC CLUB

... more previous study. On more than one occasion the piece appeared likely to come to a dead stop from a doubt as to who was to speak next, and perhaps the worst of these hitches occurred, curiously enough, directly after Joe Speirrit had said Now we're tooling ...

Published: Sunday 18 October 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. FRANKS ROTHSEY'S DRAMATIC Entertainment

... Mackintosh Moke. Half Mr Duke said was inaudible to the audience, owing to a whimsical idea on the part of the actor that speaking in a hollow whisper umparted the requst rleyt a comic part. Mr Sanderson was ao better ?? conception of the lady-killer was ...

Published: Sunday 30 August 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON IRISH DRAMATIC CLUB

... not fail to discover from his easy bearing and his prompt way of speaking that he is not unaccustomed to appearing in public. Mr Calffrey is dramatic as well as self-possessed, and speaks with as much earnestness asaptness. His performance as a whole was ...

Published: Sunday 27 December 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TINY TRAVELS.*

... question if Macaulay's New Zealander thoughtful waniderer question if Macaulay's New Zealander will ever have to speak of mighty London as we speak of Nineveh and Babylon the first. Equally pleasing is Mr. Sterry's writing when he dwells upon the doleful straits ...

Published: Sunday 06 September 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1668 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR FREDERICK CHATTERTON'S CONCERT

... great spirit and heartily encored. Of Mr Chatrerton himself, as a composer and performer, it is hardly necessary for us to speak. In his three solos, a prelude and rondean, The Nymphs' Revel, a grand Russian fantasia, and a moccecat fantastidqce on ...

Published: Sunday 14 June 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HERR AND MRS BANDMANN IN HAMLET

... is also in many respects novel. In itself it is an achievement for a foreigner so to master our difficult language that he speaks as intelli- Oibly as a native, and always grammatically, and even elegantly. But it is a higher gift to form an ideal and ...

Published: Sunday 27 September 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND

... indebted for the success of that festival. For that adl for many past festivals I cannot speak too highly of Mr Ledger, nor can you, ladies and gentlemen, speaking for yourselves, thainkl hins too warmly. (Cheers.) Mr Cminaose then proposed, aund M\Ir ...

Published: Sunday 05 April 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2355 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HAL

... Easter holidays continues to attract largo and wfelf-pleased audiences, asid no change has as yet been found necessary. This speaks volumocs for the judgrmlent of those at tho head of affairs, as well as for the ability of the ar tcstes, Mir totting and ...

Published: Sunday 10 May 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2129 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Dramatic Performance at St. George's Hall

... good and bad alike were rewarded with a torrent of applause. With regard to the music and the musical selections, we are able speak more confidently and in higher terms of praise. Miss May Summers has a geod voice, and can use it to advantage. This lady sings ...

Published: Sunday 17 May 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture