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THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... having my memory refreshed by renewing acquaintance with Le Bramce le la ?? ole la Paiz, I can only repeat what I said when speaking of Fidesoa, namely, that in this case the eternal accusation of plagiarism against M. Sardou falls to the ground. A sketch ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1994 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL YEAR

... presented, and that the catalogue, regarded as a whole, was one of which there was no cause to be ashamed. But even while we were speaking our tag to a successful season, the prompter was again ringing up, a new and a busier season was beginning, ancd we had to ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2614 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LAWRENCE'S MARIONETTTES

... concluded w ith a comic harlequiliiade im the ussual way. Much singing of a good kind was contributni during the evening. The speaking in different approjpriate voices, and the working of the very numerous figures, were admirably managed. An excellent band ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1060 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARISIAN GOSSIP

... the body, Rlle est storte so there is nothing more to do, and it was not necessary to come and ring me up ` or should lee speak as if moved by the terrible catastrophe, share fite grief of the unhappy father, and. break the sad intelligence to him as ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1726 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... calculated to sustain the lessee's Pristige. Of the numerous artistes -nho appear in the opening Ht would be~difficult to speak too highly, and prominence is deservedly due to Miss Edith Vow~les, the juvenile heroine, wiro~e performance of a neost difficult ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 34166 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE ROYAL AQUARIUM

... performed a variety of feats ; and she appeared to have also great command over the mluscles of ler legs, if we may venture to speak of those members. By throwing iser feet over the trapeze bar the fair artiste was quite able to suppost the weighst of the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1596 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... welcome. This gentleman's ventriloquism is of the very best description; his manner of carryihg out the delusion of the figures speaking is absolutely perfect,.and the speeches and dialogues indulged in by the dummies are yery comic. There is no need to congratulate ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7628 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY

... so it has been unanimously agreed that thle pesiod of Jimc7tst shall ho envelopeid in poetic vagueness. Best, genserally speaking, these questions also afford ass absoril ing and interesting study, for through the Inediucia of books or travel the great ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3387 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TOMLINSON'S CAT

... equally good, and received nightly at the hands of his audience a reception second only to that of the star himself. I am speaking, of course, of the- days when there were stock companies in provin- cial theatres ; and even in a theatre like the Phoenix ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2787 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... and shei has been a decoy, a gambler, a hell-keeper, and a thief, She is as unfeeling as she is tisciriptilous. She cats speak jestingly of the murder of her own husband, ncd lshe would not hesitate to blast the fair name of her dead sons, to suit her ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3376 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARISIAN GOSSIP

... a suit that attracted the attention of all Paris, and in which tice grievances between the disputing parties were, so to speak, considered to be equal. That M. Coquelin did not enhance his reputation by the affair is an opinion I think I expressed to ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1779 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE SILVER KING

... rest moping and mowing in what was not to be called English but rather stagecc here was a whole company of actors, able to speak Eng- lish, playing ilstelLigently, supportinag one another effectively. Mr Wilson Barrett as Wilfred Denver is so excellent ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 13392 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture