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FRENCH PLAYS IN LONDON

... London audience on Monday last. By reason of her position as star of the Rtenaissanec company it may not be out of place, in speaking of the very successful isnaugural performance of Le Petit Die, to devote a few words to the artist who created this important ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2642 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ACTING EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS

... each. At line 381, in the Globe edition, Polonius is marked to enter and speak the line Well be with you, gentlemen, on the stage. In the acting edition he is marked to speak the line without (To whom ? Certainly not the Players. Polonius would not ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6906 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... stirring and exciting sort-one to make middle-aged readers feel young again. In his preface, Mr. Grant, with natural regret, speaks of the innminent loss of its historical distinctions and identity by the famous old regiment known as The Cameronians. ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A FAMOUS STROLLING MANAGER

... pale and Jenny Lind hid her diminished head. But before I joined him she had lost her voice so entirely that she could not speak 'above a whisper. This misfortune, and what the public had lost by it, was a favorite theme with her husband, over which he ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2567 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.*

... THE PALL MALL GAZETTE. SAT (URDA Y, JUL Y 2, 188i. ' TilE GUN A1ND ITS DE VELOPMIENT. * AI,. ?? may claim to speak ex eathledryi on the subject which he },,rc handles, for no gunmaker has met with greater practical success in (( w ctitive scientific ...

THE PALL MALL GAZETTE

... discriminating study of the Roman dramatist to see when he is speaking frcm his owvn mouth. Professor Sellar makes out, to the satisfaction, we: venture to think, of his readers, that be does often so speak, though he often gives the impression of being a servile ...

THE PHILO-THESPIAN DRAMATIC CLUB

... he has of turning his arms into windmill- sails. He could not keep them still, and almost every two seconds, while he was speaking, they were to be seen extended behind him, after the fashion of lazy, or tired, or yawning people who get relief in what ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... ting study of the Roman dramatist to see when he is speaking fr( m his own mouth. Professor Sellar makes out, to the satisfaction, wve c(nture to thinlk, of his readers, that he does often so speak, though he often givcs the impression of being a servile ...

MADAME LIEBHART'S CONCERT

... be corrected before the young lady can make much advance as a vocalist. But of Madame Licbhart herself it is time we should speak. She was greeted with hearty applause when coming forward to sing La Danza delle Memorie, by Signor Carracciolo. This pretty ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HENGLER'S CIRQUE PROMENADE CONCERTS

... revels of these dwarfs, who call themselves men. Good brother, let us descend, since by some strange fate we inan move and speak once more-and let tes taste of these things which make men merry and glad. Miagog, who has stretched and slcaken his huige ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1717 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMATEURS AT KILBURN TOWN HALL

... but she was always distinct. Thle next item was BMr G ilbert's pretty comedy Sweeth/earts, and hlere we are again able to speak in terms of commendation such as we can rarely employ when describing the doings of amateurs, who are mainly a geief and a ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN.*

... ? Against Mr. Bright's criticism of the ordinary modera Dns flower painting we have indeed very little to urge. But to speak as if the ter flower world had never found any better exponent on canvas than Watteaui ,d ; or Van Huysum, is to show a blindness ...