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AMUSEMENTS IN CANADA

... A3MUSEMIENTS IN CANADA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MONTREAL, OCTOBER 8.-ACADRMY OF MUSIC.- Old comedy in any way adequately performed is a very rare bird on this continent, and Miss Rose Coghlan, being presumably unable to* find a new play suited to her requirements, has very wisely conceived the idea of starring through the country with a repertoire drawn from the works of such master ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1493 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... WE hear by telegraph that the sale of seats in advance for Mr Wilson Barrett's performance in New York for the benefit of the Actors' Fund was enormous. The Princess's company have been playing nightly to splendid business and the booking is almost without parallel. The theatre is filled nightly with audiences drawn from the most cultured classes in New York, and it is not nausual for Mr ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2807 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OUR DIVA AT THE OPERA COMIQUE

... MMi7-. Paul Ferrier and Fabrice Carrels New Comic Opera, English Version by C. M. Rae, Music by Victor Roger. Montosol ?? Ar FRANK CELLI Abdatlah . ?? Mr HENRY BEAUMONT Mourzouf ?? Mr LFanv 'ibe Postman .. .. Mr HENDON Alfred Pasha ?? Mr FRAuK WYATT Mladame Dubois ?? . Madame AMADI ?? Miss Eerie1 CLEMSENTS lifine ?? iss MINNIE MARSHALL Adele . ?? Miss F. MELvILLE. Jeannette . ?? Miss ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1616 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AFTER LONG YEARS

... AFTEIR LONG YEARS' An Original Play, in Three Acts, written by Mr Arthur Law and Mrs Herbert Puors, and produced by bliss De Grey at the Theatre Royal and Opera House Torquay, October 20th, 18S6. Philip Canningham ?? ?? BASSETT ROE Henry Cunningham . . Mr E. NoRWOOD Seilor eicardo . . M r A. T. HILTON Mr Cunningham ?? Mr W. F. STrIRLING Sir Frederick Goodchild * Mr MATTW BRnoDsIE Mrs ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1534 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A MANAGER IN A NEW ROLE

... A MAAGER IN A NEW ROLE. Incog. in his weekly notes to the Worcestershire Advertiser of the 16th inst., says:- I, like many other people, have had the pleasure of seeing Mr W. Gomersall, the esteemed lessee of the Worcester Theatre Royal, in many good roles; but I venture to think that but few have had the privilege of seeing him pose as an interpreter in a police-court. That privilege was ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A HAPPY DAY AT THE GAIETY

... A HAPPY DAY -AT THE GAIETY. A Family Farce, by Richard Henry, Produced on the Evening of Wednesday, October 6th, 1886. Jerrymer Jawkins ?? Mr ARTnuR WiLAANs Mrs Jawkins ?? Miss HARRIET COVRNEr Angelina ?? ?? Miss FLORENcE BHALS Sophonisba ?? s blis TERRISS Edwin ?? Mr B. P. SEARE Kewton ?? ?? Mr J. LE HAY Ethelburga ?? M Miss Rosa SILVESTER Ethelinda ?? ?? Miss FiORFNCE SILVESTER ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... .?iUsw. 4 lii CRSA PE'TA ALA CE, t lie second? ,Saturday afternoon concert of the t icrty -first s eries toolk placeu last wie ek, when t hles pregiamnure wvas rendered tributary to the mem~ory oft telthe rlets Pre iszt by a selection froml ?? works. The visit of' this remarkable comsposer to England last April., andl his death at the e nd ct tlhe followving July, w iil beh fresh~ iai the ...

SUBTROPICAL CULTIVATION.*

... SUBTROPICAL CULTIVATION. IN these spacious later days of an expanded England, the unattached Englishman is apt to reflect with Ancient Pistol, The world's my oyster, and forthwith to open it, if not with a sword, at least with that favourite and ambiguous implement of subtropical cultivation, the common cutlass. In our own time England, indeed, has begun to overflow from the temperate zone ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... LAST NIG3ET'S THEATnICALS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The enthusiastic reception accorded to a new and original farce, brightly wriitten by Mr. S. Theyre- Smith, and thoroughly well acted by the members of his company, should show Mr. Charles Hawtrey the wis- dom of pleasing the pit and gallery, who are his early coming patrons, by giving them something novel and worth seeing instead of dosing them ...

LITERATURE

... IT -FRAT URE- 5pLE?SPl0 SHA~CKLES1 firs ld loves stery both in real life th5orld lvg tive region of fiction. d D te It interest, especially when ccaid~ialS a so Witee circles; and a secret I'e4ting to ibIV attractive when involved in b°ed mica1 sroundings. TIase 3 bten bornoin mind by the anony- splendid Shackles, which 0iuth ,bed as a story of surprises. be aesr latetothemaintenance of ...

MISS KATE SANTLEY AND THE CRITICS

... I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) There was ninch annoyance, as well as disappointment, at the Grand Theatre, Birmingham, on Monday night, when Miss Kate Santley was announced to take the principal part in the Indian comic opera of Vetah. It was by no means an agreeable surprise to find the house buttertlied with slips of print to the effect that Miss Santley was indisposed. The following ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1489 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... ADAM ET EVE, -Fantastic operetta, in four acts, words by MM IIIum and Tochd, music by Di. Gaston Serpette, first S11 al -e 6th ,18 86Trzl p~rodiecti at the Nouveautds, Octobrth186 fiscal, . ?? * , ?? M. BRAssEUR ?? I. BERTiIELIER Adrat)ti.l.*-- ?? . ALBERT BRASSR Gatcl~l ?? ?? TIIEo ?? . Idile MARI E LA.TEL. is-ude o ?? M.ARORIT. DEVAL Sue.lia ?? l. DucRoZAT ?? ?? Idule. GESMIAINE El ?? , ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2957 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture