BOXING DAY PRODUCTIO

... E.i PRITCHARD, hM. Vurrois, E. WARD, J. JONS, H. ESvT, J.. GooDMAN, J. IEBBBSO.N. W~ho can thoroughly describe a modern Drury-lane pantomime? And who can fairly criticise it after ai first night's production? The initial difficulty comes from the myriad ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 15370 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

THE WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED PAPERS

... inus- ?? trations ate .The Empty Sauceer, 4 zwulif's Circus-> h at ?? Palace, A Macaroni Dandy, and' 2 Alacdlin at Drury Lane Theatrc The faslion a plates are numerous, anld, in addition, there is a- coloured supplement illustrative of the latest ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

STATUE OF THE QUEEN IN BELFAST

... a female disciple by their violence at the ceremony of a -imersion. 1845-The Antigone of Sophocles was produced t t at Drury Lane T'heatre, with Mendelssohn's i music. . 1846-W. E. Gladstone took Lord Stanley's place s ' of Secretary of State for the ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1117 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FOOTLIGHTS

... by the: animlal pantomime at Drury Lane. ..But on Saturday night,. whpn Aladdin went through a so sptlendlidly succes¢sful bap- tism, the interest was intense arid in some sort national. The Boxing Night crowd at Drury Lane Theatre is an institution. ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1413 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

A PINCH OF SNUFF

... doottiah clans. Uncertainty on the point led to a dreadful combat between two ladies-Elizabeth Wood and Martha Linnell-in Drury-lane. One of them offered the other a pinch ot snuff, which she took and then jumped on the box, damaging it beyond recognition ...

Published: Tuesday 05 January 1897
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... Pancras, London, Ylswerday, on the body of Thomas O'Callhan, et.d 59.a at actor. The deceased, who bad been chraged at Drury-lane Theatre, and recently. t::6-cr the name of T. C. SHarris appeared int the cast of the dra.ma entitled The Duchess of ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1897
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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SPINNING TOPS

... body as tbat of her fstber. Ee was aa ll up, to a week ago. }fe worked nearly up to> the last, as he was acting ia the last Drury Lane drama, The Duches of Cool. gardie, Since thlis time ha had beea having a certain oum a week from the fund.-Dr. Kiehard ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1897
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 680 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR. COURTNEY

... not as an Irishman, Scotchman, or English- man. It' comes from him whether he drinks whisky ainl ,Connemara 1'o gin in Drury-lane. It is therefore irrelevant to discuss the bearings of the Act of Union, more especially as' the disestablishment of the ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1897
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

OLD PANTOMIMES

... it was a great failure, and after a brief run of five nights it was withdrawn. On Boxing Night, 1828, the pantomime at Drury- lane was Herrleqwirs Good Robin; or, The Babes in the Wood. Toe clowns were Uasher (the fathor of Mrs Alfred Wigan) and Southby; ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1897
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1170 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... pursuing her career of self- Vas 3 awVelopmnat. corn- Act, For tho first time in the two hundred rears' case, historr of Drury Lane Theatre. the old historic the and ?? home of pantomime has been in- lence sured a>aillst rc. A policy has quite recently ...

Published: Tuesday 12 January 1897
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2158 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON LETTER

... it,,5 no0to empuloy 13,000 horses, wi'hose average life is tever five years. maibly Drury Lane Theatre. «rsitY Mr. Neil Forsyth; the acting manager of I te or Drury Lane, informs me that the advanced one booking of .the Aladdin pantomminl beats ] n tohe ...

Published: Tuesday 12 January 1897
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OLD PANTOMIMES

... insertion. In the year 1828, when W. Barrymore's pantomime of H~arleouin Cock Robin; or, the Babes in the Wood, was acted at Drury-lane on Boxing Night, the theatre was under the management of a Yankee named Stephen Price, who was satirically nick- named by ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1897
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1381 | Page: 10 | Tags: News