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THE DRURY-LANE TRAGEDY

... THE DRURY-LANE TRAGEDY. OnTuesday morning Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an inquest at St. Giles's Coroner s-court, touching the death 'r^ftVS-T^ Mary Ann Whitehall, widow ot tho deceased said she had been married husband drank to excess and tijon tSFS- a ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TAGE WHISPERS

... attempt to outvie it this year must inevitably lead to the swamping of the fun, and Aladdin proves this. As a pageant the Drury Lane pantomime is brilliant beyond deacriptictn i the scenery, dresses, accessories, ballets, processions, are as wondrous as ...

Published: Sunday 03 January 1886
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5136 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... Mrs. Conover will retire shortly from the management of the Olympic. The distribution of the Baddely cake took place at Drury-lane Theatre on Tuesday night, when most of the celebrities in tho theatrical world attended. It is almost needless to add that ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OUR DOMESTIC CIRCLE

... look at things in a funny way; you must remember I am speaking about enormous wealth. How goorgeous and splendid must tho Drury-lane pantomime (London) be to call forth such unqualified praise these days when well-arraDged and expensivelyplanned pantomimes ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2272 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... piano, I suppose, remarked Mr. Pool. According to stories which are current in theatrical circles, the Baddeley Cake feast Drury Lane Theatre on Wednesday night was more gay and festive ceremony than it ever has been. The Baddeley Cake is provided for out ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CRICKET

... ; Id. CH ILDAEN PRICE TO BOT MORMI4O and EVENING PERFORMANCES TO ALL PARTS except Pit and AUGUSTUS HARRIS'S PANTOMIMES: DRURY LANE, ALADDIN,' on Boxing Night, and twice daily during the holidays. CitYSTAL PALACE, “CINDERELLA. R OYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1886
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1755 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FREEMASONS

... Freemasons' Tavorn. Amongst tho members and who were present or invited were Mr. Augustus Harris, S.W. designate of tho Drury-lane Lodge, to consecrated on the 25th inst.; Mr. A. M. Broadley, Past Provincial Grand District Master of Malta: Sir Philip ...

Published: Monday 11 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... the proceedings. Nothing would shake tho determination of members to havo over, and so they mado each as uncomfortable as Drury Lane crowd for nearly couple of hours. The proceedings were kept up till half-past five, when Mr. Akers-Douglas, the chief Government ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEY'S JOURNAL. JANUARY 16, 1886

... of the living labourers in the same inventive department of art, are they not often acknowledged at Covent-garden, and at Drury Lane, and elsewhere, by the plaudits of the public. ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1886
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

JOE 0' DICK'S CORNER

... of old Blachfriars theatre, or that of its rival neighbour, at Whitefriars' Thespian boards, or that yolep'd Phenix (old Drury-Lane)? What were the stages at the Swan, the Rose, or Paris Gardens, or the Hope? Or those of yore, where Richard fought or Desdemona ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1886
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 794 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... you must journey all the way to Devonport Managers art fickle, and they seem to live under the shadow ofthe lessee of Drury Lane. He sets the fashion in pantomime for the year. Out of over seventy provincial theatres where pantomime has been produced ...

Published: Sunday 17 January 1886
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... is that the title is Faust and Loose, or Brock-en-Vowa. A new Freemason's Lodge about to be formed, to be called the Drury Lane Lodge. It is intended for the special benefit of members of the dramatic profession, and Mr. Augustus Harris is the senior ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 2 | Tags: none