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TOM MEAD

... eventually he settled down at the Grecian Theatre, where he played for a number of years in melodrama. He also acted at Drury Lane, the Surrey, and Britannia theatres. During this time he wrote several plays and also one pantomime, The Babes in the ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... 3; sugary delights from Chelsea to fill the pockets of ir some little folks with them, whom I promised to id take to the Drury Lane Pantomime on the follow. 18, lug afternoon, but alas ! colds and coughs h, intervened, and I had to go with uncle and auntie ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4132 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE EIFFEL TOWER

... evening is aecounted for in the volumes of Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket bills preserved ir the British Museum. The Museum collection hu rocently been enriched by the splendid series of Drury Lane bills presented by Mr. Augustus Harris who ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3639 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A BABY IN A RAILWAY PARCEL

... and Co., Sagers asod yual Wholesale oSoldbyChemisT MURDER AT NEWCASTLE ON-TYNE. On Monday a man named Fletcher, living in Drury Lane, Newcastle-on Tyne, was arrested on a charge of murdering his wife, with whom he had quarrelled, and who was found lying ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1978 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ATLANTIC STEAMER BURNED

... governesses, Mr. Headlam: Have these ( children ever acted in a pantomime before? Mr. t Scott. AU four have done so at the Drury Lane E Theatre last year. In answer to further questions of d the Stipendiary Mr. Scott said the children would t leave the theatre ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2805 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

AN INFANT ACTRESS AND HER FURNITURE

... murderer is never discovered. TLIn OLD CLtURCuvAunD Or BLEanx HOuSz.-If you have ainy business in White Hart Street, Drury. Lane, London, you will probably make haste, for it is not a desirable locality. Yet there is a reason why you should turn aside ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2958 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... retirement now hangs in the Great Hall of St. Bartholomnew's Hospital. Tns Castle Specotre, produced large receipts at Drury Lane Theatre. About the end of the season Sheridan and Lewis, the author, had seine dispute in the green room, when the latter ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1889
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3611 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Notes and Queries

... was published by Millar, August 19, 1740. L Dr Arne ferwards altered the masque into an opera, and it was produoed at the Drury Lane Theatre, March 20, 1745, for the benefit of Mn. Arne. In the advertisements of that performance, and of a later one in April ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3737 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Local News

... with a 1:aution QUEEN'S THEATRm.-A powerful attraction 1i I ?? at this theatre by the engagement of Mr. Augustus Harris's Drury Lane Company in Hnan Nature.-' ST. JAUESiS THEATRE,-; A Mother's Sin, a drama by Mr. Walter Reynolds, which has had a successful ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5354 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LONDON

... of 21, White Horse Yard, DruryLane. Mr.JohnCleary, however, wasnotknown at No. 21,or anywhere else in White Horse Yard, Drury Lane. -The houseis a four-storey one. The street floor is vacant, the first and second floors are occupied by famiies, and the ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5927 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General News

... hold of his hand and tried to savec him, but could not. The boy was Thomas Kendal, and was the son of Christopher Kenda, of Drury Lane, Hollinwood. H~e was 11 years of age. VOLUNTEER BAZAAR AT BLACKPOOL.-In the Drill Hall of the Blackpocl Battery of the 5th ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9135 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE BARBERS' FESTIVAL

... cia said to have shaved with ease and dexterity-, inc Mr. Batrick informs me that he has read: of set five barberesses of Drury-lane who shamefully co0 maltreated a woman in the reign of Charles L. i co] Latterly, on account of the simple mode of of trimming ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1889
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1795 | Page: 3 | Tags: News