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LITERATURE

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THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... Paifumeuse will be presented, and if Pretty as a Picture does not capture the public, it is difficult to say what will. SPEAKING of Pretty as a Picture, there is na Miss Nellie M'Henry with Salsbury's Troubadours, who opened at the San Francisco Minstrel ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3403 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CAMPAIGNING AT THE CRITERION

... thrown away upoms such a part as Mllrs Douglas. In the first act this clever lady had not more than half-a-dozen lines to speak, and not one of these was deserving of the slightest attention. She did all that was possible with her share of the scene in ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1736 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE COMEDIE FRANCAISE

... comedy and tragedy. In the latter he excels, particularly in the Kings. DI. COQUELIN (AiNr). ALL Coquelin has been, so to speak, the pupil of nobody; neither the Conservatoire nor masters, however skilled they may be, can give to an artiste the high and ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4852 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MADAME VIARD-LOUIS'S CONCERTS

... minor, showing great command of the instrument. It is because we admire his ability and his great talent as a composer that we speak with regret of his occasional eccentricities. Miss Georgina Burns and Mr Ludwig gave some vocal pieces with considerable success ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 884 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CHURCH AND THE STAGE

... grievously to blame in our treatment of you. This Guild is a proof that some of us wish frankly and openly to ask your pardon. I speak chiefly of the way in which the clergy, the officers of the Church-a society founded forthepromotion of righteousness-have ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1825 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... melodies allotted to the part being excellent, as usual, and her acting had all its familiar charm. Of Madame Lablache we may speak in terms of warm praise. Her Martha is, in many respects, the best on the operatic stage. Miss DMary Chatterton's Harp Recital ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1953 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LEYTONSTONE OPERA AND COMEDY COMPANY

... concoct a plan. Having coan- meneed to lay their heads together it appeared as though they would never stop. We acre not speaking of this as a blot upon the work, for the number is so bright and so enlivening, and- it received such justice at the ?? of ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1375 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMATIC, EQUESTRIAN, AND MUSICAL

... was not well enough to be present that day, hut his heart was with them all the same. Mr 'Wilton, a trustee, was there to speak for himsels. and as he was present, and was an exceedingly modest man, he (DMir Anson) would say no more than thank him in ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3452 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MODERN ENGLISH COMEDY

... literature wolil' gain immeasurably by it, while equal advantage would be conferred upon the actors. Without. for the moment, speaking of those mongrel mon- strosities, farcical comedies, we reqaest our readers to call to mind the number of so-styled legitimate ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1757 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY NOTICE

... irexgg: b; . the meeting was crowded, and it was held in a a district inhabited by Irish Roman C'atlholics. w ?? father was speaking and givingsome hard f, hits, whereon a dtsturbance commenced, and tI for a time things looked very serious. The tl disturbers ...

MAGAZINES, &c

... France, in securing to the Hellenic kingdom the town and district of Janina, which |comprise in the main a Christian and Greek-speaking population, and ought, he contends, on every principle of fmairness, to be included within its frontier. MESSRS. CASSELL ...