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LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... being as brilliant as scenic art and lavish expei diture could provide. Mr. Oharles Harris, whose rank as stage- manager at Drury Lane and the Gaiety well fitted him to undertake the task, has organised the processions and dances in excellent fashion; and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3580 | Page: 5 | 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: | Words: 1198 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HERE AND THERE

... liatti Lanner's children ever grow sip? was the question which occurred to me as I watched them dancing in the pantomime at Drury Lane. The faces of the little thing. were strangely familiar. I seemed to have seen those identical children every Christmas ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1890
Newspaper: Warwickshire Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON GOSSIP

... great autocrat; Augustus Harris, who holds the magnetiser's wand to draw people to his house, stands first upon the list. Drury Lane isfilled every night, although people have to grope their way through the darkness to the doo. . The benefit of the noise ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2751 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... in e tthe legitimate drama. Mr. War-ner has received an offer fr fom Mjr. Augutu Harris to return home and reappear at Drury Lane in the October drama of 1880; but ab present his movements are undecided, as he contemulates as athird return visit to Melbourne ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1993 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THEATRE

... THEATRE - unct'ially half past twelve thismoming Mr. James rernandu/ stepped upon stage of Drury Lane neatro, and fas donblo capacity of Master of the Lvce Theatrical Fund and trustee of the Baddeley Bequest, cut the famous Twelfth Cake,” and welwjred ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1011 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SKETCH OF HIS CAREER

... still continued to act, playing in his own theatres and also accepting engagements others. Ho played with Gustavns Brooke Drury Lane, and afterwaiHs, in conjunction with the late Walter Montgomery, became lessee of the Uaymarkct Theatre, in London. When ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2937 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE INFLUENZA

... published the illustrated journals almost invariably appeared in them. Mr. Izowden was his 77tli year. TWELFTH NIhHT AT DRURY LANE ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A HEAVY DAY’S WORK

... deoeaaed, who was years of age, had bad a very adventurous fife. When about seventeen years old u® Joined Smith’s Circus from Drury Lane, which wa* visit’ and Ramsgate got an engagement as bottom dens’ man WomWell’s No, Meuagerir- From this bo rose to be a ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 485 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DAILY MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1880

... age on the Eiffel Tower. Mr. Harry Nicbolls, anwering the query, Which theatre suits your method of acting beet? writes “Drury Lane (to the end August, 189/. —when I shall bo you should hear of anything).” thinks that parsing bis old age proprietor of ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 796 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GLEANINGS

... - -: ~GLEANINGS. Calais was lost 332 years ago on Monday. It is said thab Drury Lane Theatre, when ,fill at pantoiie tune, holds nearly £56,000. per week. A Reuter's telegram from Las Palmas, Canaries, states that the British training squadron has sailed ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1992 | Page: 7 | Tags: News