THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... author is wise who selects subjects that have gained applause, and presensts them in new and original conbination.s I cannot speak too highly of the acting nor of the stage settings. In both the author was unusually foetunate, and also in having a friend ...

Published: Sunday 08 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2411 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... drawing a good stage piece from it was by no means easy ; for instance, the all-powerful Duke, of whom everybody is constantly speaking, is naturally excluded from the dreamalts persona; good taste and propriety exact that he should remain behind the scenes ...

Published: Sunday 08 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3551 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... received three-fourths, he has been fairly paid for his services. The performers are left without monsy-that is comparatively speaking-and under these circumstanees the Lessee, Mr E. Anderson, has treated them with the greatest kindness, having offered the ...

Published: Sunday 08 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1581 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... love with her. She denied it, and her husband slapped her faco and hurt. her. 1 the petitioner went Folkestone, but did not speak to her forbidding the to visit her. She generally, when her husband was away, retired rest o'clock, and Jekvll was never with ...

LITERATURE

... be sure ! And what's matistarly inac- l st'i,'n teevity, ye doited body ? says Tap o' Noth, wha vwas Glasgow; jist able to speak, an', savin' the Socratic interro ator w lom infor. had lost a' poo'r o' argument. g t 'r b en can be Steakin' the stable-door ...

THE MARQUESS OF BUTE ON ART

... sonmetbing to which I am not as: impertinent enough to apply the strong word e .m 'olidarity, but a moral unity, If I may so speak be -a OOmmon Soul-a universal aspiration-which thi seems to have more or lese porfectly developed in ha alt the-highest artists ...

THE THEATRES

... Buckstone deserves a special word of commendation for his impersonation of Fa. This young actor has an easy bearing, and speaks his lines with admirable clearness and point. These old English comedies, it should be added, are put on the stage in the ...

LITERATURE

... The Aim and Influence of' Modern Biblical Criti- ins cism, although from the pen of Rev. Dr E: A. Wash- burn, we cannot speak very favourably. The dissatis- er- faction arises, probably. from the author setting f forth well-known principles with the ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... the character of Sir Frederick Blunt, had to. come forward and attempt to restore order. When at length he was allowed to speak, which was not for a considerable time an explanation, not altogether satisfactory apparently, was made, and the play was allowed ...

Literature

... about the Methodists, although brief, is full of weighty thought, claiming the serious attention of every sincere Christian. Speaking of the practical evils of separation, he hits what is a most patent evil. He says:- Sunday school teacihing, wuhile in its ...

LITERATURE

... il--v, cheerful spirit whtich! reigned throughout the PC (Li- l e to thle inifueecce of Sister flora. One of her Sa afaitis, speaking of hter in her hospital work, seys- up *s1,,J had ever seen ?? a woman as this before, so co' so) goodl, so fendles-Iearted ...

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN

... up to us, saying, Where? He cast his oyes round the burning circle, and ran calling out behind the curtain. I heard him speak to a man, and hlie with my husband (Mr. Joe Bldred), a servaut, and another wall in another minute enierged, holdiug a hose ...