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THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... THE DRAMA ^IN PAPRIs. (nROn OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ) PARIS, THURSDAY. - OPERA. - Thle revivajl of I! Reine de C/typre, which had been postponed from, tee 00>' during the past two months, is the all importatnt oo week. It has been placed 00 the now stage Nitit leveto cence to which Ml. Hallancioirhas accustomied us, anl 510 tion if not Per-fect is sufficiently satisfactory. The' though it has ...

Published: Sunday 12 August 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1591 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AN IMITATOR OF VANCE

... AN ITITATOR OF VANCE. At the Assembly Rooms, Clomel, onl Monday night last, theie was ail extriordinary scene not likely to be readily forgotteu by those who witniessed it. Announce- i1euts had been scatteted througlhout the townv that the Great Vaace and his Concert Party would appear, and the popularity and fame of the eminent entertainer sufficed to fill the house to overflow. The ...

Published: Sunday 30 September 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE STAGE AS A TEACHER OF MORALITY

... One feature of the English Stage, which is perhalps more prominent than any other, is, not the negative quality of all absence of viciousness in its tendency, but its actual and active instillation by precept and example of those virtues that go to make a, good man and a worthy citizen. We are aware that a few plays of recent date may be quoted in dispute of our' dogma, but these productions, ...

Published: Sunday 14 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1721 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... THE LONDON MUSIC HATSJ. EVANS'S. ROOM FOR THIE LADIES! This famous establishment has recently pult forward a new claim to popularity and patronage. It proposes to give to the fair sex an opportunity of snaking acquaintance with its supposed mysteries, and of permitting its representatives to know something of the joys which attend chops and baked potatoes when consumed to the accompaniment of ...

Published: Sunday 04 November 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2549 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE VICTORIA

... A series of performances of the legitimate dramna bas been given this week at the Victoria Theatre, commencing Ol Monday last with Othellu, in which Don Edgardo Colona dis- played great ability. Onl Taesday Jave Shore was the play, and ol nWednesday Zairga, in which it was stated Don Edgardo Colona appeared for the first time. We were present, and can congratulate the tragedian upon the ...

Published: Sunday 26 August 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MISS HELEN BARRY

... MISS HELEIN BARRY. Last week wve briefly sketched the professional carecr of tre talented and popular actress, hiss 1ielell Larry, whom we have hblt the rare treat of secing at the Margate Theatre during the past veek in some of her ablest impersonatiOns a career wshich is speciativ remarkable for the extraordinary success which has accompanied it,n31i for the exceptionally short period which ...

Published: Sunday 16 September 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1080 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FIRES IN THEATRES

... FI R ES IN T h1 E ATR ES, The Select Committee appointedt hiquib's into tie ces Music Halls, and other places of public etlt',rtainlte I1 ?? M\letropolis, resumed their investigatioll on Mjonday rctq Sir HL SEI.wVIN InarETSON Under-secretary r flip Department, in the chairt'. ...

Published: Sunday 22 April 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3186 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DERRY DRISCOLL

... D E e R Y D R I S a O I. L. (FRON OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) Derry Driscoll; 01', tIC SPec0Sntsoan's Peast, the first of four pieces onl which Liverpudlians were asked to pronounce an opinion on Monday last, when it was produced at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, differs materially from the usual run of Irish dramas, inasmuch as the conventional flourish of the shillelagh, the ...

Published: Sunday 22 April 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1616 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... HER MAJESTN'S THEATRE. Once more the original home of Italian opera in Englaud will be applied to its ?? utses. The echoes of Ales.r. bloody and Sankey's hymns, gratifying as they undoubtedly were to four or five thousand persons at a time, could not be accepted as a perfectly satisfactory substitute for Italian opern It was impossible not to recall the days when Grisi, Alario Rubini, ...

Published: Sunday 29 April 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1268 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNTRIED DRAMATISTS

... Mlnay letters, for which, unfortunately, space cannot be found, says the Staundard, continue to rench us on the subject of Theatrical Managers and playwrights whose worlcs have not yet been submitted to the world. In these letters, however there seems to be a general forgetfulness of that sage truth which Dr. Johnson so neatly summed up in a couple of linez-- 4, The Drama's laevs the Dniarna's ...

Published: Sunday 22 April 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 712 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GLOBE THEATRE

... We suppose DMr Robert Reece must be numbered ameong those happy individuals to whose mental vision everything mundane presents a comical side. In burlesque he certainly appears to be facile princeps, and the playgoisag public owe him not a little gratitude for the many provocations to laughter he has introduced to their notice. Of course he has many detractors among those who decry burlesque, ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1131 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

STRAND THEATRE

... [7ITe following appearecl in our Towx EDITroN of Laot Iljeio.j STRAND THIEATRE. This popular little Theatre opened its doors last Sttri. with a bright auditorium, a brilliant prograrmle Saud b flae crowded and most enthusiastic audience. Dari'n bforea Mrs Swanborough has had the front of thers the recess th susprettily redecorated by Mr IV. J. Ball, and we are glad to he able to say that the ...

Published: Sunday 07 October 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture