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FOREIGN NEWS

... another groat con- flagration, by which half the business portion of the town has been destroyed. The fire broke out in the Variety Theatre, where seventeen persons, mostly actors, perished, including Revel women. The loss of property is estiuated at 5300,030 ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1887
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PROPOSED PALACE OF VARIETIES

... against whom they were agitating. There were plenty of people in the city who would not oppose the Palace of Varieties as a variety theatre, but who might oppose the granting of a drink license to the building. He therefore thought that if some- thing could ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2826 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... was drawn for the appearance of the 'ss S. following artistes, all of them great favourites in wa3 IS music hail and variety theatre circles -Young Mac- ass' g dermott. the Sisters La Blanche, Mr. W. J. Rowley, Par )f Harry Russell, Cooper asid Foxeroft ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1881
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 4207 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... 5afternoon, as three performers. Zelleto, Onreto. d and Zelvardo, were giving a trapeze entertainment ] at the Victoria Variety Theatre, flolton, one of Q I the acrobats took a flying leap and was caught by e I a companion hanging head- downwards from a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1887
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 6566 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WIT AND WISDOM

... for Iby which half tile business ler~ioul of hela wn the I5 ]Ill been destroyedl. The lire bloke Old1 in the the 18 Variety 'Theatre, where seventeen DIa-rsons, mostly Clu ~Y au-tore, perished, including sevenl IVIIIfiL. Ike loss per 1s of properly is ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5165 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BANK HOLIDAY

... Herr Renier, a musical marvel, is underlined for appearance next Monday, Cl GRAND THEATRE, of The proprietors of this variety theatre are still di taking advantage of the demand for sensational ml exhibitions, for they have made arrangements for be another ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1888
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 6884 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... heard some of the evidence, and adjourned the cases. After a varied existence as a circus, shating rink, music hall, and variety theatre, the old Holborn Amphitheatre was opened on Saturday evening as a London theatre, relying for its attractions on the ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6645 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Local News

... concert tiekets only will be admitted at 6.45. The proceedings Ai are expeeted to be of an interesting character. A VARIETY THEATRE FO1 PRESTON.-Mr. Et Harry Henfrey. comedian and burlesque artiste, has de- oided to open the building lately occupied ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1880
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12950 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... c famous character parts. He was afterwards successive!; lessee of the Charles-street Theatre, Baltimore, and the Varieties Theatre, New Orleans; and of late years had mostly a~peared at Wal. lack's bouse, in Broadway, NowI9 ork. During this period ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1886
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1905 | Page: 6 | Tags: News