AN ACTRESS'S SALARY

... Harris, lessee of Drury Lane Thentre, mande an application to his honour to be allowed to give evidence in the ease, and on permission being aecorded witness deposed tbat Miss Vernon was en- gaged by him on a contract to play in the Drury Lane pantomime at ...

PANTOMIME CHILDREN

... attended to support the summonses, and Mr. Broadley, barrister, appeared on behalf of Mir. Augustus Harris, the proprietor of Drury Lane Theatre. In the first case, that 6f Gwendoline Quantrell, the School Board officer stated that the child was ten years old ...

PANTOMIME CHILDREN

... Police Court, on Wednesday, the parents of two children who are now employed by Mr. Augustus Harris in the pantomime at Drury Lane Theatre were summoned for not sending their children to schooL The irst case was that of Louisa Steer, aged nine years and ...

PANTOMIME CHILDREN

... police-court, on Monday,t amnenonses against parents for neglect-I ig to send their children to school, they C eing engaged at Drury Lane theatre.-IO c he first case-that of Gwendolne Qusn o relh--the School Board officer stated that Le child was 10 years old ...

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN NEWCASTLE

... adducing certain evidence, Ann McCartnev said: I am the wife of Thomas McCart- ney. He is not working at present. I live at 19, Drury Lane. My room is situated underneath the prisoner's room. On Monday night about half-past eight I retired to bed with my husband ...

A WOMAN ON STRIKE

... with a wink and a laugh at the gaoler, Oh, old Vaughan. Police-constable Higgins, 256 }, deposed that he was on duty in Drury-lane when he was called to the Sun public-house to eject the prisoner. He removed her, and when outsideashe said, The men are ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... creditors, preventing as it did their getting their muoney in the county court. Here was this lady earning a large salary at Drury Lane Theatre, and yet she came to the court to get rid of her debts without offering to pay, one penny piece. There was an a ...

EXTRAORDINARY BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... then 81. After some weeks he ascertained her name from the servant in the house, and he took tickets for Aladdin at Drury Lane, and the de- fendant sat next her. He afterwards offered to marry her, and gave her an engaged ring. He, through his solicitor ...

A MILE END MYSTERY

... was her son, 1 and New Year's Day b6eag hin blrthd.3v he came home, In the afternoon he and ?? brother went to E seo the Drury Lane pantomlme, and called on reter;.|- ing at their letier'E In GQPM li3-stie6 S'epDey-greel. The deo !aacd then left and eaid ...

ENLISTMENT BY AN ACTRESS

... workhouse, Soho. It was stated that the prisoner's claims to be an actress consisted in that she had been a chorus girl in the Drury Lane pantomime of Puss in Boots, and more recently she was on the stage at BristoL-Mir. Newton said that her history was a most ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... the ?? and as to portion of it tatithat in e by .wse of frwud, it being alleged at t bankrapt ga vachs rg ?? her salay at Drury Lane, which wasalreadyfully ?? Janpta ws allled uad eamed end his hoous, afte ?? Z ?? on he ,a wa of opinion tht thse alle. ~siisn ...

AN ACTRESS'S BANKRUPTCY

... failure. Misel TIn reply to the official solicitor the basikrupt litt stated that she was now in receipt of £56 a week at the Drury Lane Theatre, out of which arg sum Mr. Augustus Harris received £20 a week in with repayment of a loan. She now owed him about ...