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FATAL FIRE NEAR DRURY LANE

... discovered by the police in a dwelling-house, let out as tenements to a number of poor people, at 7, Great Wild-street, Drury. lane. In less than seven minutes after the outbreak a pitiable secene presented itself. A number of lodgers were awakened from ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1878
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1610 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE OLD THEATRICAL PIT

... act il1fonte Christo at Drury Lane. English actors were not arbi- trarily shlt out of theatres then by the tyranny of authority, indeed it was an outburst of popular prejudice which we would gladly forget. Speaking of Drury Lane, though, we may refer to ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1552 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE SALARIES OF OPERA SINGERS

... benefit night, and a leave of absence, during which she -arned as much as her salary amounted to. In 1823 she was engaged at Drury Lane for forty represen- tations, for which she received £8200, and two bene. fits, with a guaranteed receipt of £2400, or alto ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1878
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The School for Scandal

... Royal in Drury-lane. Altered from 'Vaubrugh's Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger.' By Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. London: Printed for G. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's-churchyard. WIMDCCLXXXI. This comedy was, I believe, brought out at Drury-lane in 1777, ...

Published: Sunday 08 December 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... the PrInce went to the Houie of-Lords; and aftera: wards accompanied his wife and two sons and the Duke of Connaught to Drury Lane Theatre. On Saturday Princes Albert Victor and George went back -to Dartmouth to their. studies on board the Britannia, ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 661 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

LETTERS OF THEATRICAL CELEBRITIES

... fair and reasonable dimensions, that the drama has now (with so much opposition) a chance of existence. The more I think of Drury Lane or Covent Garden, the more I an disposed to believe that no permanent interest will ever attach to them-their day is gone-they ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1452 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

BANQUET TO MR. CHATTERTON

... connected with theatrical affairs was aware of the verj great i'spousibility which the lessee o0 sO gigant c a con. cern as Drury Lane had tobear. He (tho chairman) wag one of the prop; ietors of the theatre, and he could saf from personal ex-periencetbht ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1878
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY

... date cannot be ascertained), Neil Guin, or Gwyu, or Gwynne, first saw the ligbt in a wretched cellar, in the Coal Yard, Drury Lane. HI-er early years wvere spent in the haunts of vice and poverty, and it is said that she sold -fish in the streets. A' ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1878
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2663 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

BANQUET TO CHATTERTON

... eonnected with theatrical affaiis was aware of tha very great responsibility which tho lossee of so gigantic a col- cern as Drury Lane had to bear. He (the Chairman) was one of the proprietors of the theatre, and ho could say from personal experience that ...

Published: Tuesday 12 March 1878
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 899 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

STRAY LEAVES

... father of a dcbutante, was generally con- sidered his best and most finished performance. He took his farewell benefit at Drury Lane on the 6th of July, 1872. A new artistic and dramatic weekly journal has appeared at Frankfort under the editorship of Dr ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1878
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1046 | Page: 27 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS

... character of Shylock, at the Haymarket Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Webster, and after- wards performed at Drury Lane, under Mr. Macready's management. From 1844 to 1862 he was the principal manager of Sadler's Wells, and it is in con- nection ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1878
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2314 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS

... character of Shylock, at the Haymarket Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Webster, and after- wards performed at Drury Lane, under Mr. Macready's management. Froam 1844 to 1862 he was the principal manager of Sadler's Wells, and it is in con- nection ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1878
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2322 | Page: 6 | Tags: News