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SUMMARY OF GENERAL NEWS FOR THE WEEK

... director the Now River Company, and of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company The new sheriffs are Mr. Augustus Hams, leasee the Drury-lane Theatre, and Mr W. farmer. While excavating near likes tone, a workman came upon a clay urn containing hundreds of coins ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1890
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HOME, SWEET HOME AND ITS AUTHOR

... stage, and furnished with letters of intrudoctaoo to Kemble, Coleridge, Lord Byron, and others, obtained an engagement at Drury Lane, and there created a very favourable impression by his Norval, following it with a round of the provincial theatres. On ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1890
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

IN MEMORIUM

... legitimate mean* nf public instruction. As dramatis author, however, did not succeed, his tragedy of Irene, produced at Drury Lane Theatre, proving signal failure, notwithstanding his friend, Gilbert Walmesley's prediction that he would turn out a fine ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1890
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... the principal buildings with the same * material as used at the Paris Exposition. Mr. Augustus Harris has once more given Drury ' Lane Theatre for the benefit of the Koyal General '. Theatrical Fun 1, which will take place on April 23. The advocates of women's ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... all but southerly winds makes the admission a boon indeed to the scautily-clad aud poorly-fed waifs of Clare .Market and Drury Lane. We are glad they have seen their way to follow the generous policy the other three inns of court, and we hope the example ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1379 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... Lytteltou for the Children's Country Holidays Fund. Sir Augustus Harris intends to start a dancing school in connection with Drury Lane Theatre. Mme. will be the instructress. A llSh* Seamen's Institute, under the auspices of the Liverpool Mersey Mission to ...

Published: Friday 14 August 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2782 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... the Battle of Walterloo in the London theatres to make them very attractive to foreign visitors. In A Sailor's Knot at Drury Lane, in •* The Trumpet Call the Adelpbi, in A Royal Divoroe at the New Olympic Theatre, the British patriot rejoioes nightly ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM BOOKS

... was acting in barns country bumpkins, barely finding bread for hie wife and child, was jn»t as great genius as when was Drury-lane. When Brougham presided Lite of Lord*, was nob bit liett- r or greater than when lie hung about the ruiliamenb Edinburgh ...

Published: Friday 11 December 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... dinner the Playgoers* Club b-is taken place the Criterion. London. Mr. K. Jerome was the chair. Mr. Henry titt's popular Drury Lane drama A Sailer's Knot is great success at the Boston Museum, under the management Mr. Field. Mrs. Fish, widow of a well-known ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1891
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... Windsor Castle. Sir Augustus Ilnrns has kindly invited all the children in the office Orphan Ilomea to witness his pantomime Drury Lane. Dr. W. B. P.ichardson, F.R.S., has distributed the prizes the Camden Town Art and Science Classes at the Park Hull. The ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1892
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... show objected by Serious people, an acconnt of its being Light Entertainment ? Are the electrically-lighted Damsels in the Drury Lane pantomime Electric Bell(e)s ?—ls the Siemens light exclusively used by Sailors f—Ala Brash lights the sort employed by fo* ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1892
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1457 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Lord John Hamilton, second son of the Duke and Duchess Abercorn, now completely recovered. Madame Nordica, with ..

... completely recovered. Madame Nordica, with a strong company, will make a tour the provinces during October and November. The Drury Lane pantomime, Humpty Dumpty.'' certainly goes on for another fortnight, and, perhaps, longer. Mr. Frederick Macmilian has ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1892
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 3 | Tags: none