... slow progress at Drury Lane, and determined upon trying his fortune next at Rich's theatre, In Lincoln's Inn Fields then under the management of Keene and Christopher Bullock. Chetwood insinuates that envy influenced some of the Drury Lane authorities to ...

... for ever thwarting and worrying one another. In 1742 Mrs. Woffington, as she now called herself, left Covent Garden for Drury Lane, Garrick's theatre, and then accompanied the latter to Dublin. Here they excited a wonderful glow of enthusiasm; and certainly ...

... being The History of Miss Sidney Biddulph, and on of the latter being The Discovery, which was acted with applause at Drury Lane. She was as blind as her husband to the cleverness of her younger son. Dying when he was 15, she had not the pleasure of ...

... litter«totr of society, and the foremost man of his class in England. Just then he became associated in the management of Drury Lane Theatre, having purchased Lacy's moiety of the shares for £43,000, and afterwards purchased Ford's part for 1:17,000. Garrick ...

... daughter of the Dean of Winchester, seems to have been as devoted to him as the first. He had serious pecuniary losses owing to Drury Lane Theatre being twice burnt down. He had political disappointments which affected him more keenly than the loss of fortune ...

... vulgar, which Peg was very apt to be under certain provocations. In 1782 Miss F4rren was one of the stars of Sheridan's Drury Lane stage, playing the part of Lady Teazle in the celebrated School for Scandal, Lady Townley in the Provoked Wife, and ...

... which was quite pardonable under the circumstances. Hardly so excusable was that perpetrated by Emery in the same play at Drury Lane. The rising of the curtain had been delayed beyond the usual time; the audience grew impatient; and Kemble, in no very good ...

... the stage, and Garrick had revived Mrs. Sheridan's comedy, The Discovery, in order, if possible, to attract playgoers to Drury Lane. But the son's new play proved to be far more to the taste of the fashionable world than his mother's older one. In the ...

... company ef strolling players in England, with whom he made his way up to London, where he soon became one of the stars of the Drury Lane Theatre. It was for him that Cougreve wrote the part of Fondlewife in The Old Bachelor, and Ben in Love for Love. On ...

... profess to have been a personal experience of his own, but stated that he had heard the story from an old member of the Drury Lane company who had been present on t he occasion. At one period it was the practice of the management of the theatre in question ...

... and enter the establishment of a costumier, one of the many to be found in the neighbourhood of the two great theatres. Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Nevertheless, the jeweller went on, I cannot accept your invitation for this evening, as I have another ...

... imperishable basis. Their success, however, relieved Sheridan of temporary embarrassment. He was able to buy a share in Drury-lane Theatre for £10,000; though where all this money came from no one has ever been able to make out. His plays paid well; but ...