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PliOViNCiIALL 'fHflA

... fills the chair. TArLEuRE's CaRcus.-The auditorium of this vast building is nightly crowded. Of the artists engaged we cannot speak tee highly. Bit Jose Austin, the celebrated bare-backed rider, appears nightly, and is well received. The Olmars execute sene ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 20375 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARISIAN GOSSIP

... happily, the criticism of it forms no part of the duties with which you have charged me ; but it is quite within my provisce to speak of the author of Odetfe; of the man, in fact, who, after having for two consecutive seasons at the Palais Royal made all Paris ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1998 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MARION FAY: A Novel

... will have an answer ready for such a suggestion. I know he will. If so, and if you have wishes to express, you should speak to him. All this made the matter quite clear to her brother. A girl such as was his sister would not so receive a brother's ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6787 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... wants Lady Duncan to imagine that she has a rival, and teaches her, or tries to teach, that she must feel the words she has to speak. Unhap- pily, however, there are other features in the performance that cannot be regarded with so much satisfaction, and we ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7080 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... will certainly do so, and from that day our position in India will become untenable except by her sufferance. He does not speak for himself alone, but collects the opinions of nen like Sir John Strachey who know India well; and, therefore, his book deserves ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1449 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHIONS

... example, a pearl grey, shot with white and shaded ; champagne colour and electrical blue. A French artist of high reputation, speaking upon the effect of colour in dress, says, Blue bows upon a pink dress look vulgar; pink bows upon a blue dress are very ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SOUTH KENSINGTON DRAMATIC SOCIETY

... generally his acting was decidedly good. Mr Reginald Vincent also displayed no little ability as the hero. The chief fault was in speaking lines that should have been asides louder than others instead of subdsins thesn. In several instances Mr Vincent acquit- ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY.*

... insinuating and dangerous to the moral tone because it is indirect, and even, so to say, unconscious. It is not that he does not speak well and think well of England and Englishmen on the whole; but we arc proof against that. No Englishman of the old block really ...

THE PALL MALL GAZETTE

... insinuating and dangerous to the moral tone because it is indirect, and even, so to say, unconscious. It is not that he does not speak well and think well of England and Englishmen on the whole; but we are proof against that. No Englishman of the old block really ...

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR FOLLY AND FASHION

... enough for a Yankee show- man; and the world, as the world alwaysdoes, read them greedil'y. We growrbid with anger when anybody speaks of a Spanish hull-ight, and we can pour out quarts of boiling idignation about the ancient scoundrels who did that dying gladiator ...

THE THEATRES

... hero anad heroine's attachment had not scoured a strong hold on the spectator'ssymnpathies ; but we also took occasion to speak of the turbulent and inso- lent habit of Saturday night gallery saudiences as having become 4almost intolerable. We w~f ...

CHRISTMAS STORIES AND NOVELETTFS

... wvhose nose turned tlp. iS not to be gainsaid, thoulgh Po11y Dawvson, r it 1S tule, w~as inl other resp ects, physically \, speaking,, a fa~ultless person. Moreover, in spite C of her love for beads Nnd trinkets and ribands, she was as pleasing as her reiserly ...