THE WORLD WELL LOST

... andslw admired Derwent, though he was so standoffieb siml treatod her as if she had been Catskins and not grloel enough to speak to. Also she had a very friondly feelilI for Arthur, of whom she would have been considerally fonder and not nearly so much ...

MUSIC

... even greater treat than usual. Altogether the concert was the most enjoyable we have yet had this season, and, artistically speaking, the most useful. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. FOR the sixth time in London a series of representa- tions of opera in English ...

LARRY LOHENGRIN

... 'Tent to Southport yesterday afternoon, and 0(ecck0, would not be at the office before eleven ,h¢e All 0COmes say I want to speak to him. 15ht si. hi. fl sue w5 l 0 later Peter presented himself to his partner. It iepg 0lldj~Oat spirits and utterly u ...

LONDON. SATURDAY, JAN. 10

... appears by the gaol books that therw are at present only forty male and six female piisoners for trial. Ine offences, generally speaking, are not of a very heinous character. The calendar contains only one charge of wilful murder, and this is case of -Lewis ...

New Novels

... him to lay it aside, and it is now offered to us by his daughter, who has added some few of the chapters herself. Strictly speaking it is not a novel, for there is hardly a pretence of a story in it, but a collection of ?? Flitter, Dr. Wilkins, Colonel ...

THEATRES

... acting is in other respects not unsatisfactory. Mis Lydia Cowell, who represents Mignon, is a pretty and graceful actress, who speaks her words with refined feeling and true tender- ness, and seems to want only a little more confidence and power of colouring ...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

... idiom, which, in spite of the editor's patriotic pleading, Allan Ramsay distinctly treats as a dialect. For Sir William Worthy speaks as pure English as the bard could command; and the same idiom prevails in an interesting prologue probably written by the ...

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 

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 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