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THE THEATRES

... : era Comedy Theatre for a season of six weeks on be Saturday next0 A new and original musical comedy-drama. entitled Blackberries, in (3 which Miss Alieo Atherton will appear, will be in produced on the occasion, together with the i new melodramatic ...

LYCEUM THEATRE

... Maude Millett, Miss Tilbury, Mr. Lytton Sothern, I 'r end Mr. Morton Selten. Mr. Melford's piece is pre- wve ceded by I Blackberries, in which Miss A&lice Atherton adrepeats her clever and always acqeptable impersonation I of %Charlie1 Cott, the show ...

THE READER

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... with one or two exceptions, has a good cast. Ladies who can speak English, sing, and act are not just now as plentiful as blackberries, i and Mdlle. Camille D'Arville, who acts the part of an Al. |satianglove-girl,proved an acceptable actress and vocalist ...

AMUSEMENTS IN CANADA

... every year. Clumsy imitations and out- rageous farcical buffooneries are, it is true, almost as plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, but the dramas that have any claims to success on account of clever construction or brilliant writing may without the slightest ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1887
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2063 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... ng. I am so worried !- The children? Oh yes, the children are all right. I've sent them to hunt up blackberries for a blackberry pudding. Blackberries are over, of course-but they don't know that, and it keeps them out of the way. -And Mr. Pennefeather ...

CRYSTAL PALACE PANTOMIME

... Then we get to work in a picturesque wood, where the prettiest of villagers are engaged gathering sticks and picking blackberries and nuts. Cinderella rescues the Fairy Godmother from insult, and when, on a mossy bank, she falls asleep, the fairy resolves ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1927 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN CANADA

... assembled. was essentially a holiday one, and the new Juliet was accorded a most hearty reception. Juliets are as plentiful as blackberries, bat very few of the young ladies who essay that exceedingly difficult role succeed in making their impersonation even ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2072 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN SOUTHAMPTON

... given to the fourth and fifth scenes, which mechanically change from a lovely summer landscape to a bright wintry scene. The Blackberry Wood scene and the Village Green are both conceived with a high degree of taste. Among the dramatis persorre are some clever ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2312 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TRUE STORY OF MRS. GORDON BAILLIE

... her acrommoda- tion, and in such numbers were the acceptances given that tbey became in the City almost as plentiful as blackberries in the country in September. Actions were threatened right and left against the old gentleman on these bills, and when ...

PROVINCIAL TlHEATRIC

... attractions sutficient to draw a. large and enthusiastic audience to this theatre on Meeond evening, when Blackberries and Turned Up were presrlete,. Blackberries is a capital ittle piece, and was remarkable for the effective acting of Mr Ramnsey Dancers as the ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1887
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 23365 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE OLDEST ACTOR ON THE STAGE

... everything he says must be takea in good humour and in good truth. Transpontine authors were in my time as plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap; and I never,-as one of them, got upon an average a 5 note, until Mr Barrett gave me about six times ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2607 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture