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THE LAW OF PUBLIC MEETINGS

... FIRES. Much excitement was caused early yesterday morning in the vicinity of Drury Lane, London, owing to the dis- covery that the large premises, 46, Parker Street, off Drury Lane, used by hMr. Augustus Harris as a wardrobe for theatrical costumes, had caught ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A NEW OUT-DOOR LIGHT

... the now- nminant- probably the'lighthig'df the four-milo rhdius with a huge illuminated advertisement from. the top of. Drury Lane. The utility. of Lucigen. for Loutdoor purposes may be gatged by its victories. 'Besides being used. for .]igh- ing ''many ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AN IDEAL BOILER

... Malling, Kent ; upwardis of ;£91,000.-Of Mr. Thomas Spalding, formerly of the firm of Spaldiug and fledge, paper-maleers, Drury Lane, late of Ore Place, Hastings; upwvards of C89,000-Of Mr. John Floyer, D.L. for many years Ml.I. for Dorset, late of No. ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE

... Melville, although he does not possess the same facilities for spectacular effect as sare at the disposal of the manager of the Drury Lane It Theiatre, :has staged Messrs. Henry Pettitt and Augustus a arris alatest productim~ in a manner worthy of the r town ...

Published: Tuesday 29 March 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2196 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... its duties under very trying circum- stances. A complimentary farewell benefit is to be given to Mr, Charles Warner at Drury Lane Theatre on December 9. A large number of artists have promised their services for the occasion, and a special feature of ...

Published: Monday 28 November 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2167 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... Ambassador, Prince Louis of Bavaria, Prince Hermamn of Saxe-Weimar, and the Duke of Moutpeamsier, occupied the Queen's box at Drury Lane to witness the performance of Don Giovanni oe Saturday night. I'm glad to see that the river has fallen, said one stranger ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2275 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... National GonservatiYo Asso- ciations, and Lord St. Oswald to the chairmanship of committecs. The ireat attraction ie the Drury Lane pantomime will be a wonderful tent, fillend with troops clad in the mast glittering armour, a spectacle on which Mir. Harris ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2248 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE RECENT RAILWAY DISASTER IN AMERICA

... burned corpses had been found, and there are more in the wreck, PANTOMIME PROFITS. The motion of fr. Augustus Harris, of Drury Lane Theatre, in an action by him against Captain'KBai'bridge, of the Theatre Royal, Manchester, for a receiver of the takings ...

Published: Monday 21 February 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MR. GAUL'S NEW CANTATA—JOAN OF ARC

... the previous notice of musicians and from flalfe's bistorical opera, Joan of Are, libretto by Alfred Bilnn, produced at Drury Lane exactly half a celtury agdr to Gounod's Mass, dedicated to tho memory of the hapless maid, performed only-the other day ...

Published: Monday 10 October 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1550 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FIRES IN THEATRES

... many of the present generation thit AstleyslAmphl- theatre has been burnt down four tinmes (1794, 1803, 1830, 1841); that Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Her Majesty Is Theatrebhave each been oonsumoedbythe llames three times; and that. of existing theatres ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1665 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE MASON COLLEGE ARTISANS' LECTURES

... rooms. An ordinary man required for healthy breathing 2,120 cubic feet of air supplied him, and to render the audience in Drury Lane Theatre materially comfortable it would be necessary that very nearly ten million cubic feet of air should find its way ...

Published: Tuesday 15 November 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1602 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE BALL

... effect of. the mixing of periods, nationalities, ,and callings was more apparent One felt as if one had gone to sleep after a Drury Lane pantomime, and was. dreaming the pageant over, again. Every now and then one started, at a group of the Compton Comedy Company ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1625 | Page: 7 | Tags: News