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AMATEURS AT ALDERSHOT

... Warren (81st Regiment) was Ernest Waldburg, and supported the character in an easy and agree- able manner. This gentleman speaks distinctly,. and is audible all over the house, which is not always the case here, the acoustic arrangements being far from ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... freely give; Else is that boing'but a dream, 'Tis but to be, and not to live. le wise, and use thy wisdom' well; Who wisdon' speaks must live it too; He Is the wisest who can tell flow first he lived, then spoke the True. Be what thou seeueat; live thy creed ...

THEATRICAL NOTES IN THE UNITED STATES

... the acting in general, llicbi, taken as a whole, we should judge to be less stiff and fornial than in England. We are not speaking, be it under- stzoo, of the 'stars, but of the host of minor characters whose e iciency is so important in attaining a ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1140 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

VARIETIES

... Somebody sends Mr. Panch a Cork Constitutional, with the following advertisement -- F O~t SALE, Six Aores of POTATOES that can speak for them- We knew that potatoes bad eyes, and so may be pre- surned able to see for themselves. But potatoes with tongues ...

PIDGIN-ENGLISH SING-SING.*

... as a language that Mr. Leland gives it in his preface. It is abundantly plain that he has never mixed among Pidgin-English-speaking Chinamen, or he would be aware of the extremely limited power of expres. sion of which it is capable. Anything like a sustained ...

THE IMMORALITY OF THE FRENCH DRAMA

... suspicion; but, on the other hand, we are as tender of the modesty of women after they have become wives as we were before. Speaking generally, the books read by a mother are left open for the daughter to peruse ; the con- versatioss of the former has not ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1760 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CONCERNING A CATASTROPHE

... relation to its final incidents. In Shakespeare, as we all know, Romeo duly swallows his poison, and, testifying to the truth-speaking of the apothecary and the rapid action of his drugs, dies straightway, before Juliet has had time to awaken from her trance ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1261 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMATIC REVIVALS

... under our considerttioll, aid, while we aIvowV the regret with which we draw attention to the matter, we may add thlat we speak rather as the echo of public comnplaint than as giving spontaneous uttorance of our Own special discolntenlt. For lovers of ...

Published: Sunday 09 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMA

... warrior's helmet. M. Laroche frequently appears in the part of a light-hearted and well-bred young man. He moves well and speaks well, but he wants gaiety, and would succeed better if he could rid himself of a crooked and sickly smile which he employs ...

MR. W. R. JULIAN'S ENTERTAINMENT

... which he plapes his face, made up to suit the occasion. In this way, and by cleverly changing his voice, he gave capital speaking likenesses of Mr Henry Marston as Wellborn, in A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Mr Buckstone as Cousin Joe, in. A Rough Diacamod; ...

Published: Sunday 02 July 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY NOTICE

... ritualistic )no literature, and makes Dr. Lee and Mr. Orby nd Shipley, the little prayer book, and the kiss Oa- of peace speak for themselves. We thoroughly th- agree with Mr. Loraine that Church of England y, people in particular are really not aware ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... housemaid at all. She has a thirst for knowledge which is ad very remarkable, and a good deal of musical talent, 8he - ad speaks and reeds three languages-Kafir, English, and ee Dutch-with perfect fluency and facility; and is trying I on hard to learn ...