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LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... the Queen, presented the traditional Offering of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. At midnight there were the usual revels at Drury-lane Theatre under cover of a distribution of Baddeley cake. The cake is an excuse for ostentatious buckets of champagne, and ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3467 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BIDFORD

... and as he had the charm for s safety of the public. With the exception of at the halfpenny postcard. It is satisfactory to Drury-lane, all the principal houses are included learn that, owing to savings effected in the con- that no doubt he . had been guilty ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9305 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERARY GLEANINGS

... known in England were in the shape of small bills affixed to the door of St, Paul's Church. Tea first play bill issued from Drury Lane Theatre was on April 8,1063, the piece represented being The Humorous Lieutenant. Disarrorirramer in friendship arises ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1697 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A SAD SCENE,

... was as follows:—Madame Crosmond had last season been engaged as a member of Mr. Augustus Harris's Italian Opera Company at Drury Lane. This year her engagement at the Royal Italian Opera was so far settled that the salary had been arranged, the draft contract ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOARD OF WORKS INQITIRY. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the proceedings of the Metropolitan ..

... irregularities in connection with the Metropolitan Board of Weeks, at a further sitting i was Mr. Augustus Harris, lessee of Drury-lane who stated his objections to the manner in which the Board bad sxercised its powers in respect of the supervision of theatres ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1589 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. W. CRESWICK

... comprising Phelps, John Ryder, James Anderson, Marston, Rayner, and others, during the regime of Mr. F. B. Chatterton, at Drury-lane, he entered upon a successful engagement in Australia. Wben he came back to England he reappeared at the Surrey, then under ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GARDENING GOSSIP

... kc ; and it appears to me that the world is tolerably justified in bestowing on btu• its praises. To-night we all go to Drury Lane; Mr. Reynolds, the keepsake friend, sent us four tickets, and we are to meet him there. This is a tidy man. I have been ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3235 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... Two of these, boycotted farmers, adds the correspondent, got drunk and proclaimed their 'mission in a crowded tap in Drury-lane, and were severely beaten. WILLIAM BROWN, a sergeant in the Leicester Regiment, stationed at Tynemouth Castle, committed ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRIGHTENED ELEPHANTS

... existence of any cabinet on that body. Mr. Furness, also a member, was questioned by Mr. Winch as to the two tickets for Drury-lane Theatre procured for him by Mr. Ilebb. He denied that be requested Mr. Hebb to write for them, remarking that he was not ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WHITE PASHA

... by sang KEATING'S WORK TA BEET& TtnA la. ltd Nab. Orris:tem rumour has It that on the expiration of the present lease of Drury Lane Theatre. it will fall into the possession of the ground landlord, the Duke of Bedford, whose intention is to pull the house ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES. easelvw Intl' war arremprimires apairer..l Txa forthcoming diary of the late ranparor Germany, of ..

... order of merit. Otrz of Plymouth the Armada tercentenary celebrations have not hitherto been of a very marked character. At Drury Lane Theatre in London something, however, has been done in the way of keeping alive the recollection of a great event in English ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. --- WI do oot identity ourselves with earaienupordea *pinker 1 There is an old proverb ..

... upheld as the pattern artist, is made to figure in a ridiculons scene with the Shah in the ante-room of the Royal box at Drury-lane theatre. There are some •well-known facts about the ridiculous financial demands of Italian tenors within quite recent 4 ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1888
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1344 | Page: 2 | Tags: none