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OLD CHANGE DRAMATIC CLUB

... character sketch as.Mikitnips, stage-dosi keepe-r r at the Polygon Theatre. Mr C. White the nallboy. had becen I told to speak up, arid he did. It vould take a leather-lunged n coster to rival this younigster's muethod of shiitiig his lies Mr A. B. Whiteley ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN WORCESTER

... I asi now Cell again, and I can truthfully say my health and spirits are better than they have ever been. I ans pleased to speak in the highest terms of your appliances and treatment, etd shall advise all my friends to consult you. Book containing copies ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PRIMA DONNAS AND THE CRITICS

... letters and politicians, but we were scarcely prepared for the cold-blooded avowals of Mr. Sutherland Edwards, whose rihit to speak with authority is undoubted. The position of the prima: donna, brilliant as it is, has for somle timec past been a source of ...

THE THEATRES

... in the U~nited States is a eomplete, a bailure is wh~olly inco~rrect. Mr. Dicktens's; lletters to his frienlds at homte speak, on the con- trary, of a .great success, This is corroborated' by the fact that it hasq julst~hcen determxined to* b bonsiderably ...

THE CASE FOR VOLAPUK

... in the new idiom. A host of grammars and dictionaries has been issued, including sets for the use of Arabic and Japanese speaking peoples. A Volapiik Academy has been opened in 1eenich, at which the second of two numerously attended international con- ...

THE REVIEWS FOR MARCH

... being also very accurately reproduced. Professor Huxley's experience is 1lOl unique. No one who has heard Mr. Gladstone speak, either in the House ol Commons or on a platform,, can fail to be struck on reading the ?? Minister's article in the C6ontemporary ...

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

... was admirable, and th her execution equally so, and the enthusiastic applause d, of the audience was well deserved. We can speak In from experience when we say that Miss Osborn has to made a remarkable advance as a pianist within a brief an period. Miss ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 965 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MADE UP FROM THE MAGAZINES.—III

... non-ilustrated ones, Sir J. D. Linton's on The National Art and the National Gallery, we must take another opportunity of speaking. Meanvwhile, from a papar on' The Portraits of Napoleon the First we take the following extract When David was commissioned ...

New Novels

... that Richard Cable, the Lightshipman (3 vols.: Smith, Elder, and Co.), is less than the equal of its predecessors, we speak by comparison only, and are very far indeed from depreciating it as a work of striking originality, vitality, and power. Its ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1888
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MAN THAT HESITATES--!

... Arthur Cecil appeared as the undecided suitor, ard, of course, extracted every ounce i of point out of the lines he had to speak, some of which were unmistakably droll. It would have been more appropriate, perhaps, if Mr Cecil had made Mr Bramble a little ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1430 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... of witches may, indeed, faith- fully be described as examples of those pure and I blameless &nloes 'of which Mr. Gilbert speaks in his latest operia. But, considering the limited materials at his commend, and the wretched lines of Tate'a libretto, Purcell ...

THE MAN THAT HESITATES—!

... Mr Arthur Cecil appeared as the undecided suitor, and, of course, extracted every ounce of point out of the lines he had to speak, some of which were unmistakably droll. It would have been more appropriate, perhaps, if Mr Cecil had made Mr Bramble a little ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1404 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture