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PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... Ballet, Miss Louie Vivian, as premiere danseuse, appearing to great advantage. Prince now appears in scene six, hypothetically speaking a century after the foregoing has talcen place. He ison his road to imprint the kiss upon the lips of the Princess which ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 39011 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS

... Charles Ernest very successfully introduced an appropriate song, Santa Claus. Mr Albert Brenner gave a new ballad, Speak, only speak, it excellent style; and Herr Rudolf's rich bass voice was heard to great advantage in the pathetic song Remembrances ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... December 15th. A great deal to do, and does that great deal exceedingly well.- E'eseing News, December 15th. Singing and speaking her part with considerable talent and attrac- tiveness.-Herefd, December 15th. Walter Searle, 18, Catherine-street, Strand ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3989 | Page: 20 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

EXHIBITION ZULUS

... Zulus, who were parties to a contract to serve him, but now refused to carry it out. Counsel stated that as they could not speak English he would explain the circumstances (already reported) under which they were present, and if the Magistrate should like ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1576 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MI ISS 2 eC L A R A

... -iis-:lsinairly free from vulgar buffoonery, yet his acting is full of intetlisehumour, andelaughter is irresistible whenever he speaks or ?? is more like an example of quiet comedy acting than a cancature. Thereisno overstraining to excite merriment: nevertheless ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4571 | Page: 24 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... the Palais Royal company. bdille. Charlotte Raynard, a young actress of whose promising performance in drama I have bad to speak more than once, is pleasing as the wife; she is a clever little artist, ?? will make her way. The play will soldl the bills ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1779 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMATIC YEAR 1879

... Theatre and its professors worthy of a place in the discussions of a Social Science Congress. Bishops have condescended to speak of the Stage and to recognise its powers for good ; and some, at least, amsong the clergy have thought it not unworthy of their ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3332 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TWELFTH NIGHT AT DRURY-LANE

... Madame Vestris, who had just opened the Olympic Theatre, and the probability of such an experiment being ever repeated as a speaking Pantomime-the first on record-of Hrarlequin Pat and Harleqin Bat, then being played at Covent-garden, with Tyrone Power as ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3160 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

`LALLA ROOKH AT THE PHILHARMONIC

... Lalla Rookh, is in every way a delightful actress. Her appearance is attractive, her acting is brisk and graceful, and she speaks musically and sings sparklingly. Miss Emily Randall, who impersonates the Troubadour Feramorz, with whom Lalla Rookh falls ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MISS QUICK'S RECITAL

... kind ; and, although the audience most indulgently applauded, we could not, with every desire to spare the lady's feelings, speak of this item as a success. Far better results attended other pieces where no strain was put upon the speaker's voice. For instance ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... manifest abilities, I believe he has the stuff in him to enact the role of a modern Cervantes, and by purging the English- speaking Stage, confer upon the British and American Drama a lasting and inestimable blessing. MESSRS GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, it is ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3342 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE

... future, he owned, he could say with Horace Walpole, I know no more than a prophet, but for all that he might be allowed to speak his thoughts about and for that future. That a man of letters had something to do with the Theatre was clear, if literature ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1708 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture