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THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... language of Flowers could be heard in its most attractive form at Bow-street police. court, a suggestion that, metaphorically speaking, brought down the house. Dressed as a jester, Mr Manhill touched on a more serious theme when he recited with general acceptance ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3373 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYHOUSE POPULARITY

... that even when Shakespeare spells bankruptcy he does not compel us to schedule his fees in the list of creditors. Of course, speaking generally 'and without making the exceptions which our readers will be able to do for themselves, we may say that managers ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... distimlguishe, herdelf in the ballad ,lt was a dream. Mliss Georgina Boyack, as Titus Twinkletop, is a% finished actress, and speaks her lines well. Mr Frank Bell impersonates the Demon ; Mir B. Robinson, Dame Crusoe; and Mr T. . Grar, Mn Fida, te ltte benga ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 31168 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... prodigious. The high art of buffoonery could no further go. His get up in petticoats is also marvellously droll. Nor can I speak in too high terms of Madame Jeanne Samary's Lisette. The merry little actress is the personification of laughter, as all who ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2671 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE BADDELEY CELEBRATION

... At the bidding of Mr Augustus Harris he was soon surrounded by a merry throng, and then be, iu eloquent terms, proceeded to speak of the stage surroundings, of the pantomime, of the numbers present, of the Capabilities of the Baddeley bequest being limited ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2345 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... characters is Spite, the malignant fairy, which falls to miss Lucy Allison. ?? as the Fairy Truth acts the part of chorus, so to speak, revealing the progress of the plot when occasion demands. Mr Darid Fisher, Jun., has contrived to make a very humorous part ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 22862 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... to carry out anything of a satisfactory nature. It so happens at times that a good thing is evolved by a flrke, so to speak, as in the case of Chickwseed arndt Groundsel, which was supported by the same company of artistes; but this case is generally ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5144 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... disfigured. This play is an adaptation fross the French, by Colonel Wlillikin, and thie despatches from San Francisco all speak of it as a great success. Bil CARanOo-'S Vicltor Dsurandu is still successful at Wal- lack's. You have already had a full ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2405 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... simple, and their rernaaisblc and neast display of pole-leaping and jumping met with the reward so indisputably wvln. While speaking of feats of agility we must not forget the globe per- formance of Mdlle. Sonnet, who juggled dexterously while pro- polling ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5279 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... in order to obtain her fortune. As for Elise, she is an ill-reared girl, with too much of her own will and no principle to speak of. Whether she has any heart also remains doubtful to the end, and even after. Eighteen months elapse after the marriage, ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3420 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... self-depreciation, apologised for the voice of Mercury coming after that of Apollo; but every one who has heard this gentleman speak well remember the gentle, persuasive tones of his easy eloquence. The mem- bers of the Junior Garrick listened with a charmed ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3233 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... for an engagement obtained for him at Sam Collins's Music I-fall, and a further sum of 12 for one at the London Pavilion. Mr Speake spoke to the engagement at Sam Colliims's, but Mr Villiers did not answer to his subpoena to Prove the plain. tiff's right ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1622 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture