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THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW

... 'hat care I for heollrur end duty ? cries the irusband. Duty I honour ! who spoke of duty or of honiour? I spoke and speak of love-of that love which ill a wife is the sole invtlnerable rienrotir of it husband's honour-uf ?? love without which honour ...

Published: Sunday 22 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2032 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARK THEATRE

... expression and with the accent and emphasis calcilated to do justice to the exquisite ideas of the poet. Altogether, we must speak of Miss (;ertrufle Norman's debuit as asi event doiig her credit asd wivinacing respect for her intelligence, but at the same ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1345 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS ON THE CONTINENT

... the immoral novel. There are those who would read immoral French and English novels, knowing them to be such, who would yet speak with harsh severity of the worldliness of those who go to the Theatre, and enjoy pure, healthy plays. Of the two evils the ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1533 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ALLEGED STAGE PLAYS IN MUSIC HALLS

... cription was nearly correct. He wrote Pantomimes. In real Pantomime, of course, there should be no speaking. As a fact, however, iln all Pantomimes there was speaking now. Mr Chance said no doubt a Pantomime should be a dumb show. The witness said it was not ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1753 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... grey. Airs Liverby, finding her lord and master very cross, determines to try and make him jealous in order to compel him to speak to her, and she writes a letter to herself in which some strong expressions of admiration are used. But the husband sees through ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6124 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... very pleasant fashion to say Ta, ta to some wicked young mani -the proper thing certahily for a young lady to do if she speaks at all to the wicked ones. She also, goblet in hand, sang the praises of 'vine, and evi- dently pleasedl her hearers, salthough ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3344 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... and amusing. Miss Page its Rosa Dartle was less vehement than some we have seen in the character, but the lines Rosa has to speak are sufficiently forcible without any unusual display of energy on the part of the actress. The sentences addressed to poor ...

Published: Sunday 07 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2158 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... certain dates now often repeated-26th February, 1802, birthday of the man now speaking; 25th Feb- ruary, 1830, production of Hernani. Formerly, and fifty years ago, the man now speaking to you - was hated, hooted, execrated, cursed. To-day, comparing these dates ...

Published: Sunday 07 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5166 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE HON. LEWIS WINGFIELD

... infinite wear and tear. In 1876, Mr Wingfield published his first novel, Slippery Ground, which he is, candid enough to speak of himself as a dead failure. But lie soon redeemed the promise he had given in other directions, by the production of ...

Published: Sunday 07 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1648 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... contemporary the Paris Figaro is responsible for the following :- La Patti must be admitted, practically and unpoetically speaking, to be a heavy eater except on her dietetic days; in fact, whenever she has not to sing in the evening. Underdone roast beef ...

Published: Sunday 07 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3390 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... womanly as Marguerite, but the part is too depressing to permit of little beyond a continuous display of tearful misery, and it speaks well for the artist that she so cleverly managed to overcome its difficulties. The mnere Babette of Miss Charlotte Saunders ...

Published: Sunday 07 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 17201 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMATIC ACTION

... effort to realise the calinir feelings ; for instance, in a pieture of domestic life, it is obvious that for the characters to speak or to move with vehemnence everything will be thrown out of iarniony, anti will, as a naitural consequcence, seem unnatural ...

Published: Sunday 14 March 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture