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THEATRES

... at the HAY.14ARKET, and its place has been taken by Mr. Robert Buchanan's new drama, entitled Partners, of which we shall speak next week. At the SURREY there is a good rollicking old-fashioned panto- ?? and the Little Old Man of the Sea-in which Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1264 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MY BOY

... provincial audiences may have over- looked, but which were certain to be severely marked by London critics. The leading character speaks in a dialect compounded of the lower middle-class English, German, and Jewish accents. Why Mr James Jones, English bootmaker ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MY BOY

... audiences may have Over. m- looked, hut which were certaiii to he severely marked ire by London critics. Thle leading character speaks in a dialect compounded of the lower mid'lle-class English, German, and Jewish accents. Why Mr James Jones, English bootmaker ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1544 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... tion scene, entitled the Ironic of Britannia, an ?? work of stage irechanieri arid scenic art. Of the ecompany rye cannot speak too highly. Miss Mlaud Branscombe plays Bo-Peep with pleasing vii av ty. Mies Stella De \'ere as Boy Blue has already made ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 29518 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICA

... characters which, with time and opportunity, will come into prominence, and of ,vhich we shall have further opportunity of speaking. The scenery is by Messrs W. F. Robson and T. C. Daly, and is bright and attractive, and we see no reason why Aladdin should ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 27155 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE

... powerful hold on the imaginations of those who witnessed it. Of Mrs Dacre's impersonation of the heroine it is impos- sible to speak too highly. She made a great impression, and scored a brilliant artistic success, Mr Dacre in the part of the soldier lover ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1464 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... which was produced on Thursday evening. The part, that of Hleinrich Borgfeld~t a middle- aged, uxorious German merchant, who speaks broken English, is acknowledged by the author to ha founded on the character of Risler in - Daudet's Fromiont Jeune et Risler ...

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... states that she intends to defend her so;i enri'l 'e honos-. Um I Both are rather barren, and hard lyert consideration. Speaking of Lord Mayor Pollydore e Koeyser, fsfde:' says:- It's great fun when he plays a gaome of football erek himself. Oide thing ...

MR. R. L. STEVENSON'S MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN

... fortunate-the biographer in his subject, or the subject in his biographer. The elective affinity which drew the two men together speaks in every page, and is reinforced by external circumstances. Fleeming Jenkin was a man after Mr. Stevenson's own heart,: but ...

MR. PAYN'S ROBINSONIAD

... affairs led him to the conclusion that the greatest enemy to knowledge is the man who has lived there for twenty years and speaks the language like a native. Some years ago Mr. Payn illustrated this by writing in London a novel half about England and half ...