THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... Aida is underlined for the opening. Mdlle. Teresina Singer is the prima donna-her first appearance in New York, and if report speaks truly, she is a Singer by name and nature. A NEw American comedy entitled The Professor was brought out for the first time ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1602 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BETSY AT THE OLD THEATRE ROYAL

... appeared at this house in Mr. F, C. Burnanud's Betsy, a comedy as it is styled in the announce bills, but more properly speaking an elongated farce of the most mirtlhful quality. Like almost every z;rodern play, Botsy is an adaptation from the ]'rench ...

THE ORGANIZATION OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE

... which it treats. Though the earlier papers are not brought up to the facts of the day in all respects, and Captain Colomb speaks throughout too much as if he were the discoverer of truths which have really been for a long time common pro- perty, there ...

LITERATURE

... lluth bad -;zlL e to -repeset thins mattier psroplerly whilst ft. Asll ie pllts it, it can scarcely he conrrect. lia;co lie speaks of Buckle as having been a : Pntni'' I'erIahS Mr. HInch1 thiniks Calv'inists ?? frequenit Execter 1-all reguhir-ly ?? children ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... witnessed in some parts of England still, but Pope did his utmost to suppress it. The compiler of this volume, by the way, speaks in favour of artificial ruins, and would perhaps agree with Gilpin that a dead tree placed here and there in a landscape would ...

OLD AND NEW CARICATURE

... acceptable to his contemp.oraries as are the innocent huniours of Mr. Du Maurier to ourselves. His were the days of plain speaking and the broadest jests imaginable. The follies and affectations that ran rife in them had nothing in common with our own ...

Literature

... on lBe River Sicenlery, the second of which1 treats Of rivers in Ce mountain limnestonec districts. Tire professor: thus speaks ch -of our Derbyshire rivers :-Ci 'To tire inounitttts Itrirestoin ae reilsi iris(1 tire most prrr'triresqite Cai send wildesft ...

PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

... said they would do, not one had been accomplished, this had coat the country something like thirty millions of moucy, not to speak the flood that had ber-n shed. Their whole policy had been undignified one, and would seem to have been impelled some absurd ...

GREAT LIBERAL DEMONSTRATION AT HENGLER'S CIRCUS

... of i considering this reform or Eny other reform until peace and quietness return to our nation. (Cheers.) I must therefore speak, to you on the sabject of the disquieting and immoral foreign policy which has been ?? during the past three or four f -esrs ...

MAGAZINES FOR FEBRUARY

... still more recently to avow his sympathy la with a progrnmme closely resembling that of the Irish if Land League. But he speaks only for himself; and the PE responsible lenders of the Opposition wouhl speedily E find their initerest in dischLitning all ...

RECENT CONCERTS

... his elder brother which is signed Your loving, hoping, poverty- stricken-once more poverty stricken-brother, Franz. It speaks of eight long hours of hunger that had to be passed between a poor dinner and a meagre supper; and about three years before ...

A QUEER STORY

... hand. Per- haps there were some sovereigns mixed up with the silver, and perhaps some bank-notes. On this point no body could speak for certain, as Mr. Screwe was the chariest soul alive in letting people know what he possessed, or in parting with any fraction ...