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DISASTROUS FIRES

... half dead with fright and cold. t A destructive fire ocnurred on Mondav in a large I block of property in Clare-strePt and Drury Lane, North Shields. The property belongs to Mr. Snttre, T butcher, and was oocanied a4 &*fnrniture and paraffin t oil warehouse ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LONDON LETTER

... success. He was simply announced to ,Iappear at Drury Lane; and it has been said of him, by more than one critic of authority, that he came, be saw, s. and be conamered. His first night at Drury Lane is not e one to be forgotten by biraself or by those ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1881
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OUR ILLUSTRATED LETTER

... ork HeQ'as7d lr. Augustus Harris has scored another success in his new play of Human Nature, produced last Saturday at Drury Lane Theatre. Calu5ig Cross was on the stage with all 'its| Variedhifes ThereI~ondonissupppsedto be wel- ?? back the Guards-from ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1885
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1374 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LONDON GOSSIP

... Kelly, in the earlier half of this century, enjoyed for thirty-six years the highest repute as an actress on the boards of Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Haymarket, aud the English Opera House, in association with many illustrious contempo- raries, conspicuous ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LORD SPENCER ON IRELAND

... who agree not to let Covent Garden for pantomime on the understanding that Italian opera is not to be l represented at Drury Lane. The clif (t claque, Mennier, died last week in Paris. His prototype, David, long since retired a from the business of making ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE CONFIDENCE TRICK

... into conversation about Nelson's Monument, which led to an invitation to have some refresh. ments. They wvalked towards Drury Lane, where they had a glass of milk. All three then went to a public house. Chalkley said that he had had £9,000 lefk him by ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... gave us a taste of it. As Mr. Augustus Harris has recently stated in a magazine article, his Virginus was a failure at Drury Lane. Yet there was a great [sincerity hidden by his obsolete method; and his death takes away one of the few remaining actors ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1885
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1710 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... of time. Another interesting relic of old London has disap- peared by the demolition of the Old Lion Ina in Wych street, Drury Lane. The inn is famous as having been the chief haunt some hundred and fifty years ago of the thieves of the metropolis, and ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1881
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1852 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DESTRUCTION OF A MENAGERIE BY FIRE

... entirely confinet to lthe interior of the building. EXPLOSION AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. 'lwo men, ncased Hairris and Creed, were on Wednesday night engaged in the liine-liglht roam, at Drury Lane Thoatre, Londoci, mixing gas, when one of he libags they were ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1884
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN TELEGRAMS

... atVoslau, lu~r Vienna, wvhich did great damage. Frivoli, the new comic opera by 3I. leve was prodnced on Tnesday night at Drury Lane Theatre, ~ ~ ~ th LAn Fiberew wrdvas favourablv reevelvd. RIOI igebr ofn Pereslavl died lately at the het hdeof 117 years ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... leaning toward the the exact sciences. has - Mr. Charles Harcourt, the actor, who, whiloe life engaged in rehearsing at Drury Lane last, week fedi poi through a trap door, has died from his injuries. oil MDr. Harcourt p. rforcned in liverpool in Mr. t:aker's ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1880
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ARMY ESTIMATES

... Threadneedle Street, to recover the sum of £1 I2s., being money disbursed in connection with. the letting of a box for Drury Lane Theatre. Mr. George Kebbell, solicitor, of Seething Lale, who appeared for the plaintiff, said the box ill iquestion was ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1884
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 3 | Tags: News