FOR LOVE OR QUEEN

... Majesty, I have studied the business of the medicine, and hold my letters to that effect,' said wvh Renaud in a low vIce,' and speaking with difficulty Da owing to his grea embarrassment. Re: ' Have you pursued your calling of a physician ?? asked tha the ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... the Celestial who assumes a sadly solemn air when amused would laugh at that intensely funny pantomimist Paul Martinetti. He speaks an universal language-that of the features, about the expression of which there is nothingidiomatic ; or hazy. Each gesture ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3033 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS

... regarded as newv matter. Mr. Sliunor considers the outlook for investors brighlter ?? than it has been for many years, and le speaks' writh the authority of long and special experience ; but we need hatrdly observe that great caution must be observed in making ...

THE LONDON THEATRES

... audience that it allayed to a igreat extent any feeling of disappointment at the ;pantomime not being concluded. We are able to speak I in cordial praise of the efforts of the company, the only fault being a tendency to lengthen the comic business of the opening ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16509 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AUNT PARKER

... So I would,' he says, 'but then I a beloig to the new school.' I don't understand a what neo eans with his 'new school,' speaking i .is it he were a boy instead of a grown man. a Lorimer and 1Bathgate may be hop merchants, I ely dear, but there were ...

CHRISTMAS STORIES

... of counte- nance. 'The workhouse is the place for them sort, i I should say, as ouaht never to belong to nobody. so al to speak.o MisiThacker looked uneasy. We can't send it 'I to the workhouse now, Martha; it ie five miles off, u and the coachman hies ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... complete in its effect, and gains the warmest applause. Of Madame Collier. who is responsible for their training, one can speak in terms of nothing but the highest praise. In scene two, the Portrait Corridor of the Baron's Residence, we are introduced ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 38744 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHIONS

... front, a basket of fish at her back, and a net carelessly wound round her waist. Leaving our young and merry readers, we must speak a few words of advice to those who know that they are no longer young enough to X'ear costumes which will draw down ridicule' ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1559 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... Tm-nt new military spectacle, by AMll. Erckmann- Chatrian, which the Chatelet has produced as a drama, is not, strictly speaking, a piece at all, but merely a series of episodes, rather loosely tacked together, con- nected with Massina's capaign in ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4326 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... may have been very charming once, and no doubt the remembrance of her former charms is what makes bald-headed old men still speak of her as divine. But I am neither old nor bald- headed, nor can I dwell upon my theatrical reminiscences of twenty or thirty ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1507 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... department of pantomime. These entertainments flourish, however, in the suburbs in even more than their wonted luxuriance. Report speaks highly of Robinson Crusoe at the SURREY, Daddy Long Legs at the BRITANNIA, Whittingtonz and His Cat at the NATIONAL STANDARD ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2404 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A NEW COUNTY HISTORY.*

... sibly led on to doubt the justice or at least the solidity of Miss Har- rison's comparison between Phidias and Praxiteles. We speak with all due diffidence, but is it certain that, if the famous chryselephantine statues of Phidias had been preserved, they ...