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Unveiling the Balfe Memorial at Dublin

... (Saturday). DIED, on the 12th inst.. in his twenty-sixth year, Thonlmas Wilson Thoene, for the last five years connected with DrurY- lane, Adelphi, and Princes s Theatres, ...

Published: Sunday 20 April 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SHAKESPEARIAN AMATEURS

... hacked, like that of Shakespeare, to an incomparable depth. A once well- known ?? refuge for ineffectual Thespians, in Drury- lane, was called the Garsick's Head, anid by the same token, as als Irishman might romalde, that was the very sign wanting ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 512 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE SAVAGE CLUB

... a heartiness and appreciation that is simply remarkable. Many are old enough to remember when a French company came to Drury' lane to play Monte Christo. It was very long; it took two nights. Bet the audience did not wait for the second night. They took ...

Published: Sunday 22 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1196 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CLOSING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... Charles Lauri's letter will be dealt with before another tribunal. Yours faithfully, JAMES GUIVER, Treasurer. Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, March 12th, 1879. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-Referring to my letter published in your issue of the 9th instant, in ...

Published: Sunday 16 March 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 864 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE CLOSING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... ITHE CLOSTNG OF DRURY-LANE TIIEATRH, TO THE ?? OF THE ERA. Sir,-III answer to a charge that has been made against myself and others, that I have been with them the means of throwing some four hundred people out of employment, I hope you will allow me ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2801 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CLOSING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... CLOSING OF DRURY-LANE THEAITRE. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4TI1, 1375. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-My attention having been drawn to a letter concerning the sudden closing of Drury-lane, written by Mr Frederic Yokes, that appeared in your Journal of Saturday ...

Published: Sunday 16 February 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1050 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

A NATIONAL THEATRE

... mathe of the financial andl other results of the loltenalplated season, and also of the amount of the Covent-garden and Drury-lane Theatrical Funds (exceeding ,100,000 it is sild), and a talan suggested for the consolidation of both Funds into one, as ...

Published: Sunday 12 October 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 917 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DRAMATIC AUTHORS' FEES

... authors of the d'ay. It is no secret that Mr E. L. Blanchard, who has contributed the Openings of the Christmas Pantomimes at Drury-lane during twenty- nine years, has not received one shilling for the brainlabourthst had to be expended on the present season's ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 647 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GEORGE COLMAN'S TRAGEDY

... gardens of Gray's Inn, doing gentle penance for a life of no very reprehensible fooleries ), did not suit the taste of the Drury-lane audicses, who hissed the actor so confusedly as to induce the leading tragedian to take it for himself. It was represented ...

Published: Sunday 21 September 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1707 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

THE ENGLISH STAGE

... one individual proposes the concern shall be managed by a Committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen, and that Covent-garden or Drury-lane shall be the scene of operatio s and another that Prince Leopold shall be at the head of affairs' the majority of people ...

Published: Sunday 02 November 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1122 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

Macready as Sir Giles Overreach

... error in your issue of the 25d ultimo, which I undertook to correct, as to Macready having played Sir Giles Overreach at Drury-lane Theatre, was an error, and was probably the substi- tution of the actor's name for that of Edmund ;ean, goes on to assert ...

Published: Sunday 14 December 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

An Elephant in Custody in Derby

... e. They were taken to a stable which had been temporarily constructed in the field opposite to the back of thei Rink in Drury-lane. Here it was intended that they should be boxed up for the night, but they were not long before they completely demolished ...

Published: Sunday 23 November 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 7 | Tags: News