... at the Oxferd Music- hall and Empire Theatre at salaries of 212 and j317 per week respectively, also held engagements at Drury Lane Theatre during the last panto- mime soasou at L70 a week. The Offi-jial Receiver reported that the bankrupt had con- tributed ...

... personal superintend- ence of Augustus Harris, and presented in its entirety with all the original scenery and effects from Drury Lane. ...

... productions of this company, which contains the principal artistes of the day, under the direction of Mr Augustus Harris, of Drury- lane, Mr H. Bruce, and Mr G. Friend, their names alone bjing sufficient guarantee that the excellence of this company will always ...

... Saturday night. The audience were enabled to notice too many details. This mistake is not made in the great Armada defeat at Drury Lane. The singing and long dialogue at the commencement of the fourth act should be cut out completely. A grand allegorical tableau ...

... duchesses, peers, poets, and plutocrats, one thinks of the diffloulties under Which he commenced that flret campaign at Drury Lane which made the founda- tion of his fortunes. When Me Harris took Drary Lane Theatre he 'had practically not a red cent. ...

... Press—that is, to the ladies whose dutv it i. t, ow. deal with dress-in order to show them the wonderful costumes, for the Drury- lane Christmas pantomime. The dresses are splendid, brocades and silks being used of the very finest and richest sort. Among ...

... scores of busy li,tuds, not to speak of busy brains, are already engaged in gettiug ready for Mr Blanchard'snext annual at Drury Lane, a theatre for which, under successive managements, he had written the pantomime for more th n foriy cousecutivc years, ...

... they cannot shine in society. There is an excellent auecdote told of Macreaay and Samuel Phelps. Macready was acting at Drury- lane in the West-end, and Phelps at Sadler's Wells in the East-end. Macready wrote a letter, something like the follow- ing :—' ...

... fault with the artistes as a rule when it is considered that they are playing in the provinces. Miss Minnie Mario's hit at Drury Lane last year as principal boy makes it unnecessary to say that she graces the part of Robinson. Her acting and her singing ...

... Strand returns two members to the Council, and for these seats there were eight candidates, of whom Mr Augustus Harris, of Drury Lane Theatre, was returned at the head of the poll by 2,146 votes, Capt. Probyn coming next with 1,407. The highest number of ...

... Lon- THE ITOYAL OAK. don on Monday (says the corres- pondent of the Birmingham Gazette), and that was the re- opening of Drury Lane lheatre. The Hoyal Oak, as its name implies, is founded upon the stirring and dramatic episodes connected with Charles ...

... the play ought to be produced. Irving adds to his laurels, and Elien Terry acquires new ones. AVe have the panto- mimo at Drury Lane, always an attraction to provincials, as well as Londoners. We have Alice in Wonderland, with all the wonders renewed and ...