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... observed to o leave white marks, and hence it was perceived . that he had been artificially whitened for the occasion. It speaks something for the forbear- anee of the people-at least, in the capital- That this ill-mannered jest at the expnse of an sbject ...

PORTRAITS OF PLACES

... humour, without being a facetious traveller; he has very keen observations, and he is as much of a cosmopolite as any English-speaking man has a rght to be. He travels for the sake of travel, not for the sake of getting to some definite goal. What interests ...

FOREIGN NOTES ON ENGLISH TOPICS

... traditional innmunities formerly stipulated for the benefit of the Christian living in the Mussulman countries may, strictly speaking, still hold their ground, when they are destined to repress the abuses of the power of the functionaries and the native judges; ...

ON THE STAGE

... while addressing personages on the stage, keep their eyes fixed upon the audience in front, so that they are in reality speaking to the other characters of the play with their backs turned towards them. This old-fashioned guide to the stage has much ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1753 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CLAUDIAN.—MR. WILSON BARRETT

... course, they do and should. What we contend is that neither want of knowledge of the time, nor unexpectedness, and, so to speak, unreasonableness in the action, nor loftiness in the motive, in the least repel an English audience if eonly in addition to ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1660 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MRS. SAKER'S PANTOMIME, ALEXANDRA THEATRE, LIVERPOOL

... standard favourite, awhile his surroundings are equally interesting. Of the transformation scene it is scarcely necessary to speak in detail. As on former occasiens, Mr Brunton avoids conventionality. There is no tinsel. Having conceived a poetic idea, be ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3253 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... prominent ornament of the lyric stage. Or Mdlle. Marsy's d6but at the Frangais in the ?? of Celimhne in Le ?? I am not disposed to speak so well. The young lady carried off the first prize ic Comedy at last summer's Conservatoire contests, after a stay of only ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2464 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... at all times be a sure draw. Changes il the company since the first visit have been but few, and of these we arc sabde to speak most favourably. Alir A. Bucklaw proves himself a most able representative of the cool, calculating, gentlemanly scoundrel ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 41251 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THIRLBY HALL

... he said, divining the cause of my reluctance; but the Rector would like to say goodbye to you, and so would Bunce-not to speak of my mother and Jimmy. You must be prepared to receive a round scolding from Bunce, who will not be convinced that New South ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6273 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE ROYAL AQUARIUM

... and during the muggy and unseasonable weather of the week just past crowds ot holiday folk have thronged the building. In speaking of the Aquarimf the name of Mr Farmis naturally comes uppermost. We have from tilno to time readily recognised this ?? enterprise ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2024 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL LUCK

... proposition let one suffice :-what would be thought of the fate of a new piece should any of the actors concerned venture to speak the tag at a rehearsal ? All who are intimate with matters dramatic can supply the answer at once and there be many shining ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1962 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GROSVENOR GALLERY

... found his Royal Academy diploma, lent by Air Henry Graves. Sir Joshua Reynolds was buried ic St. Paul's Cathedral, but it speaks well for the enduring quality of his work that about two hundred of his paintings are considered a sufficient attraction for ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1732 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture