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PROVINCIAL TIHEATRIC

... favourite). SEFED TTOFATRE Ro~AL.-Lesseo, Mr W. It. Younge.-Robisison Crusoe, the pantomime of which we were able last week to speak in most favour- able terms, is still drawing capital houses. ALmEXANcDRA OPERA HOUSE.-Lessee, Mr W. Brittlebankc.-Here the ...

Published: Sunday 11 January 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14916 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NOTES OF NEWS

... year will, we trust, see a still fortherimprovement inthesame direction, YRa. GLADSTONE.-Mr. Gladstone will he invited to speak at Chester on the occasion of the visit of the Right Hon. J1. G. Dodson and the Hen. Beilby Lawlev a fortnight hence. Mr.Gladstone ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... most contemptible and degraded of beings, whom no man ought to touch, unless with a pair of tongs. One' day, while he was speaking with great freedom of abuse of Mr. Webster, then a member of the house, a senator Informed himn in en under-tone that Mrs ...

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 

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS

... The tope, explained, belonged to ancient and most important branch of architectural development, aud consisted, generally speaking, of structure square base, or, at later period in India, solid hemispherical domes surmouutedbya Tee, over which were placed ...

OPERA IN ENGLISH AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... English manner. It was said of the Emperor Nicholas, who had learned our language from a Caledonian nurse, that if he did not speak English like an Englishman he at least spoke it like a Scotchman. Herr Schott's pronunciation is wonder- fully distinct-a little ...

PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

... n among the students and graduates Edinburgh University. Lard Gbobqe Hamilton, M.P., in his address, said be would try to speak on the preseut position of tbe Conservative party, whose principles they professed, and whose prosperity they meant to maintain ...

MIDGE AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE

... ude. As a play, so Midge belongs to the infancy of the trade. The several incidents are lugged in neck and heels, so to. speak, and have an interest at best but momentary and fortuitous; the situations are so long in coming, and are prepared for by means ...

POLITICIANS OF TO-DAY

... notice of Punch Mr. Reid has failed to give the political history of that publication, or rather he has given it incorrectly. Speaking generally, it may be said that the politics of Punch have been those of the Times-that is to say, weathercock politics. It ...

New Novels

... bean-stalk. We meet Nelly Trevor here preparing to rake her first appearance as a sort of supernumerary sobreltte, without a speaking part, and we take leave of her just three months later, looking forward with confidence to playing Celia to the Rosalind ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1231 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... better to i'I ?? a ?? opinion of hlerr Schott's powers as a singer and ' dliii till further experience shall enable us to speak with confi- c. ?? t; : IlIicli riien he becomes more intimately liamiliar with our 1g may reduilndl as much to his cidit here ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1560 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... The principal poem is, perhaps, a little obscure, and is disappointing in scope, considering its title, but technically speaking it is good. Mr. Russell's Battle Ballads please us most, and his minor pieces least; he would seem to be hardly strong ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1435 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture