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DRURY LANE

... -lines which afford a marked contrast to their writer's treatment of tho fairy story told by him last night upon the stage of Drury Lane, No ; attempt is there made to endow with meck dignity the heroine of the Countess ?? pretty tale, and The 71',ite C'a's ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1877
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9808 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... pieces, or produce new ones of the same kind: The two best pantomimes of i - the season are, of course, at Covent ?? I b, and Drury Lane. Rivals in- every branch of I dramatic art-tragedy, comedy. and opera- those great houses have competed in the pro- o duction ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1877
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PANTOMIMES PAST AND PRESENT

... produced at any period of the season most convenient. They always proved enormously successful. Fleet- wood, the manager of Drury Lane, in an address published in the Plb/i Advertiser in 1747, says :-The receipts of the house are a sufficient evidence, it ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 20 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... nuvcr courted publicity in any way. Mr i. L. Blancliard'se frtliconina paantomime e The 'White C wt, 'av in rehearsal at Drury Lane The..tre, is tire 27th Chlotntmas piece avhich that veteran drriuratist has wvritt'u for timrt house. For 28 Chiristsaas ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... ways of officialismn, like those of the Hieathen Chinee. are peculiar.' Of course, the Vokes fainlvy will re-appear at Drury Lane on Boxing-Day. Mr C ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1877
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1841 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE ROYAL AQUARIUM SOCIETY

... Mary H~atch, alias Taylor, aged 45 years. [ Deceased had lived with a silversmith. named Taylor, at 8, Shelton-street, Drury-: lane. A short time ago she took poisons (spirits of salts) in mistake for- castor oil.! The effect of the acid- was to* contract ...

Published: Sunday 09 December 1877
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1246 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... An&d even if you had not, would I be' daoing you a kidness by- maldnog you long after the: glorious-dazzle and glitter -of Drury Lane and- Covent Gardenwihen youcauriot behold the caves f mystery and: the transformnation scenes for your- s'elvesf 3think ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1877
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1145 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... discovered that he paid a nominal price for the talent thus placed at his disposal. The Vokeses now draw £130 weekly from the Drury-lane AY treasury during the pantomime season, and r~e when in America they made as much as t500 wel _ sarebl 11ik ehr Ide n AG ...

Published: Tuesday 11 December 1877
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1666 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... excel- o IaiL, and could be safely recomutuendod as the r best digestivc to persons of bilious temperamnent or ?? humour. At Drury Lane 'Amy lobsart and at tie Princess' *'Jaue cli Slhore,' recall the well-k7nown change of ff epithet suggested for the name ...

Published: Tuesday 04 December 1877
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1957 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LAWYERS OF THE OLDEN TIME

... University of St. Andrew's. He came to London at eighteen, and was present atibe trial of Hatfield for shooting at George III in Drury Lane Theatre. He studied under Tidd (the writer of the celebrated law-book on Ptactice'), with whom he stayed three years, ...

Published: Sunday 30 December 1877
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2200 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... really a return to the old fashion of pantomime in its purest form, as, indeed, the very term indicates. The popularity of DRURY LANE will probably not be easily shaken by the increased rivalry to which this favoured home of pantomime is this year subject ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2755 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

[ill] Christmas Stories

... patient reader knows as much as I do of the circumstances under which I came to abandon medical studies for a desk in the Drury Lane orchestra, and to take up my abode with my sister in Lambeth. As the result of the conversation with mysisterrecorded at ...

Published: Tuesday 25 December 1877
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 49907 | Page: 7 | Tags: News