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... SIR A. HARRIS AND DRURY LANE. I Sir Augustus Harris has been telling a Strand Magazine interviewer how be first got hold of Drnry Laue Theatre. It was to let; and why, he asked, should not he take it? Fortune seemed to favour me, and aD gentleman of ...
... d Afrscine relate the stage history of this pywith many interesting details. In describing the Colley Cibber revival at Drury Lane, however, soon afterthe accession of George II., the former writers omit to note that one thousand pounds-a very large sum ...
... SIB AuGusTus HAmUIS.-A New York paper has put about the rumour that Sir Augustus Harris, Sheriff of London, and lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, will seek the suifrages of the Strand electors when Mr. W. HE Smith goes to the House of Lords. The rumour has ...
... professed conversion. The superior or 6d. per night shelters, which ate dubbed the Ark in Southwark and the Harbour in Drury Lane, sheltered 12,360 men and provided 90.288 meals. The prison-gate home, which was opened on January 30, has received seventy-six ...
... and three years' boy and belongings up to town. On the 4th of December, 1813, his engagement was signed for three years at Drury Lane. The conditions are of the straitest, the actor being bound under a penalty of £30. to go on in any paet whatsoever for ...
... plaintiff was further 3 re-examrrined. He said that besides the £ 100. bill which j he sued upon, and which was given at Drury Lane i Theatre, he got another from young Mr. Baring at h Warlingfnrd, where the witness sold him somer jewellery, and another ...
... large audiences at the Theatre Royal; and the spectacular sporting drama, A Million of Money, which weas so successful at Drury Lane, seen s as popular as ever at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Both dramas will be played every night this week. This is also ...
... Library, Edinburgh; the London Library; and Trinity College Library, Duhblin. a Under the reign of Sir Augustus Harris, Drury Lane is nothing if not up to date. When the return of the Guards from the Soudan 'was 'still a f resh remembrance to London he ...
... Alfred Lyttelton for ?? Country Hoh- days Fund. Sir Augustus Harris intesds to start a dancing school: in connection with Drury Lane Theatre. Mane. Phasey' will be the instructress. ' A new Seamen's Institute, under the' auspices of the Liverpool Mersey ...
... A-rmy Medical Service shall be allowed to comrpete on more than two occasions. Mr. Augustus Harris has promised the use of Drury Lane Theatre on the occasion of the annual beneflt of the Royal General Theatrical Fund, on the afternoon of Shakspeare's birthday ...
... rumours at one time industriously circulated, will not be opened; but Sir Augustus Harris will give us iumpty Dumpty at Drury Lane, and The Forty Thieves will be produced at the Crystal Palace. Yet, although the West End will see little of panto- mime ...
... we account for the public-house sign, The Whi ietling Oyster? Well, the proprietor of a famous Estiablish' iunsu near Drury Lane, Which Ueed to be fre- tiuntued by the wits, of M~r. Puinch's youth, one day die- tnactly heard a whistling sound conixing ...