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THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... make his wares well known, and the largest advertiser is :tolerably certain to be the most successful Manager. It does not speak very well for the intelligence of our people that Evangeline, as now presented, should prove such a success, but it isa re ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1665 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ON SERVICE; OR, A SOLDIER'S LIFE

... watching over and lending money to the wayward Riehaid, has not forgotten him. It is at her request that Ciptain Thornton speaks to Goldie, and attempts to rouse the man in him. !The result is successful. Goldie sees the error of his way, deter- mines ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1222 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

P1 eouV l N OWN[1 CT

... given to Miss Blanche H~uby for the manner in which she has trained the children. Of their singing and dancing we can hut speak in terms of the utmost enthusiasm. About the scenery, music, &c., we must postpcne writing until another occasion. Nothing ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 29316 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH

... from the charred and distorted and grotesquely commingled mass which the fire of June 13th left behind, there has arisen-we speak of the interior only-as stately a Temple of Thespis as almost any town can boast. Starting with the lowest tier we enter the ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1656 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... to Maria Emma G~eorgina, the eldest daughter of Thomas Preston, REsq. THE Junior Garrick Club has now 515 members. We can speak from our own experience of the excellence of the general arrangements of the Institution, which, under Mr T. Mow- bray's management ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1630 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... the fall of the curtain. Miss Santley appeared as Tita, a part which seemed to please her immensely. Her singing, like her speaking, was spoiled by affectation, although it is only right to say that in I wish I was a man and in Poor Mrs B.- both songs ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1971 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... success at Niblo's Garden, and is to be withdrawn after to-morrow night. Imagine a play in five acts and with thirty- seven speaking characters, all of them with more or less to do, and you can readily understand how, in the present day, when tersenes and ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1659 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MISSION OF THE STAGE

... the face ; there must be a heart and soul seithin, or surely,. for all the nobler attributes of his Art, the dramatist will speak with wasted breath, and the actor be bht a hollow echo of an empty sound. As Carlyle said of Byron and Burns we may say of ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE COVENT-GARDEN PROCESSION

... and double- winged staircase. The entrance is made from the vast door- way under the gallery, so that every company, so to speak, of beauty marches down the centre of tise stage before it is broken into files and is lost in the dazzling distance. The variety ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1007 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... Palace of Varieties in Wellclose-square, recognising as Proprietor Mr H. Hodgkinson, and as Manager Mr H. P. Hodgkinson. In speaking of the establishment, so far as the proceedings of Thurs- dayeveningare concerned,we must considerably qualify the term ...

Published: Sunday 19 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3487 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BIJOU THEATRE, BAYSWATER

... love that would no longer be' disguised, Of Mr Edward Compton's new duologue pemote comedy A Mutual Seaearation we need not speak at ength, as these columns haver already noticed it when it was first produced at Edinburgh last December twelvemonth ; it ...

Published: Sunday 19 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 983 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE O.I.C.U. MINSTRELS

... more careful about their intonation, especi- ally when they are playing with the flute. It -would be an improvement, for, to speak mildly, the violin requires at least to be played in tune. The orchestra had the advantage of the assistance of a pianoforte ...

Published: Sunday 19 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1623 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture