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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... has not been much in favour with staen managers since the time of Garrick. Mlacready revived it on au ambitious T scale at Drury Lane in 1843, and it was also given by f Phelps in his famnous Shaksperian representations at t Sadlers' Wells, but except on ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2569 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... exhausted, d tue general feeling is that ho is quite unfitted for the position into which he forced himself. f Ben ocf Luck, at Drury Lane Theatre, is the tt t afi new play vwhich is at present attracting delizhted atdiences. The comedy is one of if not of special ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2694 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... proprietor of a gold minne. Mr. Panl Meritt and his colla- borafteurs, in writing the drana of Youth, nowy playing i at Drury Lane, have, it is said, just received X3,OD each as their share of the profits up to the present time, and | will probably get ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1881
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2659 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ATLANTIC STEAMER BURNED

... governesses, Mr. Headlam: Have these ( children ever acted in a pantomime before? Mr. t Scott. AU four have done so at the Drury Lane E Theatre last year. In answer to further questions of d the Stipendiary Mr. Scott said the children would t leave the theatre ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2805 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN:

... all subjects pretty freely. An unrehearsed stage effect on the first night of the pantolnlilmeof the Forty Thieves at Drury Lane created as much sensation as anythin in the whole performance, and must be chronicled. T'here is a pretty little dance or ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2697 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AN INFANT ACTRESS AND HER FURNITURE

... murderer is never discovered. TLIn OLD CLtURCuvAunD Or BLEanx HOuSz.-If you have ainy business in White Hart Street, Drury. Lane, London, you will probably make haste, for it is not a desirable locality. Yet there is a reason why you should turn aside ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2958 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED

... last ware £3,905 149. ld., of whioh £3,148 13s. lod.was derivedfrom subscriptions and £346 le. 3d. by means of a benefit at Drury Lane Theatre. There is now invested with a view to the formation of a permanent annuity branch £2,023 4s. 9d. The inereased ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3038 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ELECTION EXPENSES

... THEATRES. At Bow street Police Court, London, on Thursday a man named James Evans was charged with disorderly conduct outside Drury Lane Theatre. A constable stated that the defendant had been to the theatre to witness the performance of A Run of Lock, and ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2937 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... the 22rc of the managers of small theatres this is a decided roisoalke, for they cannot compete with great places, sach as Drury Lane, in scenic displays, and the public i'osoacustoemed now-aadays to elaborate stage spectacles that it is never satisfied ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3221 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL SITUATION

... Symington, who for many years enjoyed if the friendship of Carlyle. n The Carl Rosa opera season will open on ;y Mondav week alt Drury Lane. During time first week d repetitions will be given of Le Nozze di Figaro, 0 anon, Faust, and Carmen. Mr. Mac- ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3153 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... retirement now hangs in the Great Hall of St. Bartholomnew's Hospital. Tns Castle Specotre, produced large receipts at Drury Lane Theatre. About the end of the season Sheridan and Lewis, the author, had seine dispute in the green room, when the latter ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3611 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Notes and Queries

... was published by Millar, August 19, 1740. L Dr Arne ferwards altered the masque into an opera, and it was produoed at the Drury Lane Theatre, March 20, 1745, for the benefit of Mn. Arne. In the advertisements of that performance, and of a later one in April ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3737 | Page: 6 | Tags: News