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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Garden, the Drury Lane lessee will have panto. mime all to himself this year, the house across the way devoting itself to promenade concerts. It can hardly yet be prophesied whether this will have much effect in increasing the profits of Drury Lane. The theatre ...

Published: Tuesday 26 December 1882
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3403 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AN IDEAL BOILER

... Malling, Kent ; upwardis of ;£91,000.-Of Mr. Thomas Spalding, formerly of the firm of Spaldiug and fledge, paper-maleers, Drury Lane, late of Ore Place, Hastings; upwvards of C89,000-Of Mr. John Floyer, D.L. for many years Ml.I. for Dorset, late of No. ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS

... phenomenal success with F Vaust at the Lyceum, and wo now hear that the receipts of the first sixty perfonnances of the Drury Lane pantomime amounted to £28,410 The three acres and a cow P scae is evidently having some effect in the Duehy of Cornwall ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1886
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 877 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

REMINISCENCES OF SAMUEL PHELPS

... is on record thait a Kcutish yeoman, bringing his family to town for the puarpose of seeing, The Doge of Venice I at Drury Lane, and recogisiug a familiar voice and manner in the prominent actor, astonished the audisncp in the midst of the play by ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1886
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EASTER VESTRIES

... name and Eu~y be rcmembenred as a clever representative of im- m.s portant female characters in comedies and farces at 43, Drury Lane and other London theatres more than half a 'cry oeentury ago, hut on her marriage with Mr. Alfred Wrigan two in 1iT leer ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1884
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 731 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... is o booked ahead to an unparalelled extent, and the Ca rnnounemernt that over a thousand seats have a been taken for the Drury Lane pantomime is r etrictly true. There is scarcely a seat to be had f atil the end of January, and Mr. Augustus r farris promises ...

Published: Monday 20 November 1882
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2876 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MAYORAL BANQUET AT STRATFORDON-AVON

... at the head of a distinguished party of Indian and Colonial visitors on the occasion of their visit to the old house in Drury Lane-(applause)-and he little thought that in so short a time he should again have the pleasure of meeting him. He (Mr. Harris) ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1886
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1917 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PERSONAL GOSSIP

... his delight. me soon came hack again. Mer. Augustus Harris is in appearance a younger and darker Prince of Wales. Hec runs Drury Lane and Newoastle-on-Tyne Theatres; he superintends Italia opera at Covent Garden during the season; is a director of the ? ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 861 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... members of Parliament at a dinner to be given at the Devonshire Club, . The lessee of Drury Lane Theatre has started an Mhas' trated newspaper, which be calls The Drury Lane Annual, and the articles in which arewritten by members of his company. An explosion ...

Published: Tuesday 26 December 1882
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2047 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT RUABON

... again appears with his Punch and Judy exhibition, which is a wource of considerable merriment, The Picardo Team, from the Drury Lane Theatre, give la number of grotesque sketches, and songs in character are sung by Miss lessi, Bonehill; whilst a serio-comic ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 907 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY FREIGHTS FOR IRON WIRE

... scenery painted here for the opera of Carmsen has been borrowed f of Mr. Simpson, for the production of the same work at ,0 Drury Lane, Extensive changes and improvements will d be made in the structural arrangements of the Royal this if spring, including ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1884
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 903 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND

... the resolution i conjunction with the member for the coonty. Tlle proceeds of the morning performance of Blue Beard at Drury Lane, onl the lithl instani iil, hy tie leinduess of Mr. ?? Hnrris, be handed over to tbe fund for the relief the distress in ...

Published: Tuesday 03 February 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 897 | Page: 8 | Tags: News