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THE READER

... by AMr. V~illiam Martin Conway, Roscoe Professor of Art, University College, Liverpool. It is pleasant, too, to be able to speak highly of this work also. Mr. Conway is doubtless versed in the technicalities of his branch of study, but he does not attempt ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1835 | Page: 24 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 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 

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 ...

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

... express the views of the College, and to reprimand him accord- ingly. In the course of the reprimand the President said:- Speaking generally, and without regard to this special case, or to cases involving medico legal questions before, or about to come ...

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

... lines of gold, She might heart-easing words behold: Welcome Beauty, banish fear ! You are Queen and Mistress here: Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still. The day passed happily enough, but Beast came with supper-a polite ...

THE TRUTH ABOUT SHAKSPEARE.*

... because the sonnets are the autobiĀ°*nr; ' of the greatest' of Englishmen ; and the convention It, exacts-under pretence of not speaking evilly of th dead ta biographers shall exhibit great inen, not as they ,eieA ideal figures in which the Village Blacksnmith ...