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BOXING-DAY AMUSEMENTS IN LONDON

... signalled out for admiration, even in a theatre famous for its ballets. The traditions • Night were abundantly preserved at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. At the latter theatre atmosphere of superior gentility over old Drury usually prevails Boxing Night, ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

KILMARNOCK

... written were the following:— Templeton bad jained a festive gathering in the Albemarle Hotel, after appearing in opera in Drury Lane one night in the early part of 1836, when Campbell, whe was one of the company, and beside whom he was seated, asked him ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Body Form) the and Cltde Canal. —The body man, whose identity is at present unknown, wisoi Saturday found ..

... Beggar's Opera, snd at once made a success. Subsequently she ■played a round of comedy parts with the late G. V. Brooke at Drury Lane, afterwards appeared at the llaymarket Theatre, aud then fulfilled several engagements ballad opera. While still a girl ...

Published: Monday 09 June 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 964 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ROAD LOCOMOTIVES IN WAR

... sum of £3 6s 6d. It was and and, proved that since the judgment had been obtained Mr her 1ge- Dillon had been playing at Drury Lane and at Shrevs- prei he bury, and the present summons was served upon him bod at Sheffield. His honoar therefore committed ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA IN LONDON

... Thursday night his part in Hamlet has been undertaken Mr Henry Forrester, It was yesterday decided that the lease of Drury Lane Theatre shall revert to the proprietors, who will insert advertisements inviting tenders for a new lease at once, probably ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1303 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

DISASTERS AT SEA

... coincidence, if nothing more. o- n ag IDanuny LAkNE. -The, truth is that the whole thing ins to tb th bygone and anachronistic. Drury Lane Th eatre, w-ith maui ,sits enormous rent, its committee, its secretary- volur a worthy old gentleman, but a kind of ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, POET, DRAMATIST, STATESMAN

... called The Scheming Lieu-1 tenant, a specimen of which the lecturer gave. Shortly after this lie treated with Garrick for Drury Lane i Theatre, property for which Garrick wanted £70,000. The first piece Sheridan put on, as 1 manager of the theatre, was ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3352 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... cumnet f T are hi ,services at the Cape. His Exeellency is already Turke g aG.C.B. and G.C.S.I. been s Mr G. Rignold opened Drury L~ane Theatre inferse '?last night with an elaborate spectacular repro- -Stei e?sentation of Shakespeare's Henry V. Mr Rig- ...

Published: Monday 03 November 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1627 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... to-night both Sadler's Wells and the Surrey ave LTheatres presented their Christmas pantomime, i a thus stealing a march upon Drury Lane and 1st D( Covent Garden. At Mrs Bateman's Theatre, in engine Islington, the old favourite pantomime of The officer Forty ...

Published: Thursday 25 December 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... pantomime apme proealied, the streets filled sensibly.Th first, the of the pantomlime-houses which calls for notice coir is Drury Lane Theatre, where Mr Augustus; Harris has assumed the rosponsibility of mlanage- cap muelt. The Drury pantonilme this year ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1578 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... r Howard, and adapted for the English stage by A Mr Alberryr Hg Mr George Rignold concluded his brief lesseeship- tif Drury, Lane last nivglt with an in- creased reputation, atd I hope uot a diniiijished a purse. I . ; .- - ...

Published: Monday 08 December 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1776 | Page: 5 | Tags: News