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LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... production of A MMilion of Money at Drury lane last night drew back to town a large number of first-nighters, and most of the familiar faces were to be seen. The play itself is of the usual order of Drury Lane melodrama. Mfr. Harris has discovered just ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1694 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... Covent Garden, and after the disastrous venture at Her Majesty's last year people will be chary of rushing into rivalry with Drury Lane in the depart- ment of the drama which it has made peculiarly d its own. Following a practice which has prevailed in some ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1803 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... snecev1sson to Sir Charles Russell. Mr3. Henry Pettitt is hard at work with Mr. Augustus Harris en tile autumn drama for Drury Lane, which is to be a play of modern London life. Lady Frederick Cnver.disb's scheme for the establish- rn'nt of a Permanent ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1916 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE CHOLERA

... a window having been forced open. The clock was produced by an assistant to Messrs. H. and I. Davidson, pawnbrokers, of Drury Lane, it having been pawned on the 9th inst. On -Monday the prisoner came in and asked for an advance upon the clock. He asked ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... and orphans in connec- tion with the Lmanech colliery disaster reaches £15,000. Theodor will, it is said, be produced at Drury Lane, with Miss Grace Hawthorne in the title part5 on May 12. Mr. Herman Vezin will appear at the Grand Theatre, Islington, this ...

Published: Monday 10 March 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1842 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... went abroad. Miss Fannie Leslie has been engaged by Mr. Augusts Harris for his next pantomime at Newcastle, and for the Drury Lane pantomime of 1891-2. The command of the 6th Dragoons, shortly falin, vacant, will be bestowed on Major A. C. _M'R1ean, lte ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1928 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... has been engaged by Mr. A. Harris to undertake, the principal part in his pantomime at Newcastle next Christmas and in the Drury Lane pantomime of the following year. Mr. Henry Neville vill sail for America on the 3Maiestic on the 20th of this month. On ...

Published: Tuesday 12 August 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1969 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... critic's existence. 3 A fortnight ago it was recorded in this N column how, on the production of A Million of f 1 Money at Drury Lane, an artist struck an editor a with a feather, or a halfpenny cane, or some other e1 qually deadly weapon ; bat the ridicule ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2066 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... hope of a complete success. The Lyceum season being over, Mr. Terriss returned this evening to fill the part of the hero at Drury Lane in the French Revolution drama, .Paul Kauvar, which, owing to previous arrange- I ments, can be played only for the remainder ...

Published: Tuesday 03 June 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2046 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A TOWN LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY

... cussion was adjourned till the next meeting. r Tz PRorITS or OPEILL-Apropos of LiLurline, revived on Saturday night at Drury Lane, it will he interesting, says the PaFel Mll Gaosrte, to learn, as illus- trating how munificently our native composers were ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1196 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PERSONAL GOSSIP

... already completed three acts of the new opera which he has been commissioned to write for the ensuing Carl Rosa season at Drury Lane. The libretto, which is from the pen of Mr. Joseph Bennett, deals with a characteristic Scandinavian sub- ject, and is founded ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1198 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... produced; on Thurs- i day evening The Star of the North, by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, will form a special attraction at Drury Lane; and on Saturday night The Green Bushes will be revived at the Adelphi. Of later fixtures it may be added that Mr. Pinero's ...

Published: Monday 14 April 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2762 | Page: 5 | Tags: News