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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... has also bought Sardou's : Theodora is, however, premature. Mr Harris is credited with the intention of pro- ducing at Drury Lane a spectacular piece entitled Napoleon I., although the correctness of the announcement that his visit to Paris was in ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... at the Amdelphi. I am informed by Mr Harris that the amnount Mr Nsiapleson had to deposit for the Italian opera season of Drury Lane was £400, and not £000. -It is said the antount to be deposited was formerly £1000. No arrangements have yet been made for ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... the Choral Symphony. )f At Mr Halls's concert yesterday a duct sonata c me in C minor, by P. T. Bache, was introduced,. c Drury Lane hast opened for the Summer seasonw is with a drama entitled, A True Story. A not of very intelligible plot deals with ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... House of Lords insteatd of moneyless. £i Mr Augustus Harris will produce Mr Pettitt's X1 new play, Humnan Nature, at Drury Lane on Saturday. The chief sensation will be a series of scenes illustrating the uiirch of the British army in the Egyptian ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... the Princesses under Chatterton and the Adelphi under Charles Reades, he was engaged by Mr Harris as leading comedian at Drury Lane. He was cast for the first comedy part in the forthcoming drama Human Nature,' announced for production at Drury a Lane ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... novelties promised are- 'Les Dragon de Villars and Marchetti's KRy Blas. On Tuesday Mr Rosa signed the contract for the Drury Lane season, which wvill ocoupy the whole of J uie, when Mr Mackenzie's new opera will be produced. There is no truth iu the ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... brains. . The exhibition of war relics and trophies r contributed by Viscount Wolseley and other otheers will be opened at Drury Lane on Thurs- day next. r If the French papers may he trusted, 1 some of the noblesse would seem to be in straits. It is said ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... long illness; He made his debut in London at the Surrey in 1861, and he played the parts of the melodramatic villans at Drury Lane and other theatres. Two of his beat characters were Sieas Weyg and the Douga Oratur. Lastly, the death has to be chronicled ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... of February. Mr Hollingshead has pointed out that neither the £5000 booked for The Candidate nor the. £12,000 of the Drury Lane pantomime is the highest amount ever paid in advance at a London theatre, as during one season of Madame Sarah Bernhardt ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... swine did cat. ot it The exhibition of arms and trophies from the ex e Soudan proposed to be held in the saloon In, a of Drury Lane has attained such Pii it i 3, proportions that its opening has been us Ypostponed till next month. Lord Wol- is seley is ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... c, : Royal Society of Musicians, and other' bodies will be officially represented. The benefit performance announced at Drury Lane on the 23d inst. Will not be postponed, but will be given for the composer's widow, who is left very scantily provided for ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... re-openeth Strand Theatre with Jo, and last night I also the hundredth performance within ten weeks was given of the Drury Lane pantomime, a fact without precedent on the London stage, Upwards of £80,000 lies already been paid bj the public to witness ...