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POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... and this season Sir Augustus Harris is an influential party to what all people must regard as a pleasing revolution. At Drury- lane the music-hall element is going to be dropped to a very marked extent, and in place of vulgar buffoonery and incoherency ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3563 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... croswdedl .nouses. Sir --ktugnstus Harris has, up to the present, decided to give ' Tile Basocue two representations at Drury-- lane, the tir-t of whtch wdl take plbce on the 2ist. 1Tht- errangramcnts for the Geraican opera, at the same hihouse, hlar- ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3628 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... Babes in the wood and Robin Hood, and amongst the special features is a series of tableaux vivants on somewhat new lines. Drury-lane Theatre wras crowded in every part last n ght for the production of Sir Augustus Harris's latest Christmas spectacle, and ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3967 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... The Peri at C the Gate. The music and the dancing are excellent. The Derby Winner, which had to be removed i frm the Drury-lane stage in trder to make way for i Dick Whittington, has been successfully reproduced I at the Princess Theatre, and there ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2985 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE CZAR'S ILLNESS

... Norwich on Tuesday, the 23rd, when they will formally open the Castle Museum. On Monday evening their Royal Highnessee visited Drury-lane Theatre. The Rev. Dr. Boyd ( A. K. If. B.) has resig-ned his commission as honorary chaplain of the 6th Voolun- teer Battalion ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1478 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... kleptomania A woman WItl a present (even a kleptomaniac) would be a relief from the ubiquitous wom'n with a past. The rentess of Drury-lane Theatre made the last' use of their old privilege of free admission to the theatre on Saturday night. For about a century ...

Published: Monday 17 December 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4515 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... bistory attached to the characters of Johann and Nell. The Devil To Pay was written by C. Coffey, sod was first produced at Drury-lane in 1731; the plot is smusiugly simple. A country- baronet has a termagant wife. and his neighbsour Joheon, the cobbler, ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2228 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... q thiink-ef Broousa silk; but it was green. and m a- p2rent sold the ?? to a lady's -wardrobe keeper in Vine nur-rd, ] Drury-lane, Alas l the fait ihless reven- team de n ' toilette ran away and never paid for that gos en-pi ec __ _ __ _ Th e idea ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2320 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

MR. BEERBOHM TREE AT BALMORAL

... works of Msscagni and Leoncavallo, besides Gounod's ' Faust and Bizet's Carmen. The entrepreneur of Covent Garden and Drury-lane has sent out an admirably equipped operatic organization. Some of the singers have a European reputation; the chorus is ...

Published: Tuesday 25 September 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2651 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... samne ecolness up to the end is another matter. Immurement in the condemne ccl t n usally breaks down the airongest ner& Drury-lane Theatre wae packed from fioor to omling yesterday, when Sir Augustus Har again generously lent the house for the annual ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2955 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... his d ebut .s an actor at the Cri-terion in Pink Dominoes as Harry Green Leaves. In 1879 he became lessee I manager of Drury-lane, since ?? year he ha:s annually baten all previcus records as to brilliant adid gorgious stage processions :and management ...

Published: Monday 19 March 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2942 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... musical circles, is best known by his excellent theoretical works. The two chief London pantomimes this year will be at Drury-lane and ai the Lyceum. Six Augustus Harris, in view of strong opposition, promises an entertainment ! which will surpass last ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2893 | Page: 7 | Tags: News