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... f- ~4 Tmr-:- V.E MAR. AN) AIRS. FLORENCE, American performers, who have, we believe, not been in England since 1856, when they performed at l)ruy Lane Iheatre in The Yankee Houseketer, made their first appearance at the GAIETY on Monday last in a comedy called, after \\ashington Irving's famous phrase, Thle lig,,hty Dollar. This piece, which is of purely American origin, aims at satirising ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1822 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS

... THE CORSICAN BROTHERS AT THE LYCEUM. Once more melodrama reigns supreme at the Lyceum, and Dumas, adapted by Boucicault, succeeds Shakespeare. The Corsican Brothers has so long been a stock piece that most people have forgotten its origin and history. The story of Les Fr&res Corses was written by the late Alexandre Dumas, turned into a play by two French authors, and produced at the ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBICJ AMUSEMENTS, The week has been a complete blank in the thea- trical world, but the autumn season will commence on Saturday next, when the Lyceum re-opens with The 0orsican Brothers, and a new opera is to be pro- duced at theStrand. Notwithltanding the continue of summer weather, the houses that have remained open have done good business. The Prince and Princess of Wales. accompanied by ...

New Music

... W. CZERNY.-- Thy True Love, a canzone/ta apjassionala, is quite worthy of its second title. Published in F and E flat, it may be sung by any young man or maiden suffering from the tender passion of which it treats; the words are by Al. E, the music by Max Schrdter.-A meet companion for the above-also published in two keys, for tenor or bass-is Good Night, Beloved, a graceful serenade; ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1415 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... M A T U R E. s5P1521,BhL' MAGAZINES. 'The silly snol has not yet opened upon the ;t~i liers ofthe couintry - the September 5 p~1taenally good. Curiously c~qicgi. e nd rea slcclitityof ubect in the ~ ~5~odicam Forinstace, i Oemnhil there an atice en' Te Semy ide f ttters ; in ?? hanaccun ?? a j~sdrd ~er5 Ao;' hileDr. ichardson's plcle~P'Y f Fstng,u th fivfsn0'o, is SPPM' ,U e hmaazntw fn es ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, - - -- -- ALEXANDRA PALACE. Another party of American entertainers, known as the Salsbury Troubadours, has appeared here in a merry little sketch, entitled The BPicas/. The fun is of the old-fashioned practical order, but as the five performers enter into the humours of a picnic with what may be truly called rollicking spirit, their efforts afford considerable amusement. It ...

THE TURKISH GENDARMERIE

... (THROUGH agency.) /CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. J Hussein' Husni Pacha, the Minister of War, has addressed a letter to Bakor Pacha, order of the Sultan, informing him that the recently appointed Commission for reorganising the Gendarmerie has been dissolved. sole charge of the force Has been entrusted to Baker Pacha. ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... THlE LONDON THEATRES. Signs of theatrical activity are now apparent. The LYCEUM and the STRAND will be ce-opened for the season this (Satur- day) evening, and next week the HAYSIARKET, the VAUDEVILLE. and the PRINCE OF WALES'S will recommence their dramatic campaign. The last six nights of Messrs Gatti's season of Promenade Concerts are now announced at COVENT-GARDEN. The children of the Duke ...

Published: Sunday 19 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1612 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN AUSTRALIA

... (FROM 011O1 OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) MELBOURNE, JUiY 8.-There has not been much change of late at the Theatres. At the Theatre Royal, New Babylon continues to attract large audiences. Half S. Pinafore was withdrawn from the ?? Theatre on the 2d inst., after a very successful run of ten weeks. On the last evening the piece was performed Mrs Lewis was presented with a handsome goel wreath by a ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1552 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... 'I'l[EATRICAL GOSSIP. - .1 -Il nilt gave, vii ?? I v the x [[thl case, I vins, in Uf thie (lleid ?? klildtlilia the ln iiltinich and0 repeated it Onl the 24 ?? ill supp ortlt 4iem liatse and geat Impio1Iiiflt Society. TheyI appea re(I in time cliv ii ulig little piece called Thci Viccmrc6mge, suipported by MmI, .1. C. Pt,i'ldsiiairi, nailin a miecelneoisti O entertainl iuiit tihch ' EimeiC t ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2353 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Can City Kentucky, seems he one the f .-v p'cices where the romance of the road lias , vet died

... out. The stage coach there was t the other day by two pent lemon the armed with revolvers, who politely requested the occupants of the coach descend aril hand ever their personal property. The their manner, glided the presence the revolvers, perwailed, like the br.Het in Sam Seller's song, on the travellers to'consent, and they were most civilly plunders lin a very few minutes. With almost ...