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PROGRESS OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES IN 1897

... five children, who went to Melbourne in 18€6. Unclaimed dividends await certain holders of New Renters' certificates of Drury Lane Theatre; tie descendants of Captain Henry Kenny, who is supposed to have been drowned in the Bii of Biscay in 1841, aro ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Eastbourne Chronicle
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2692 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... intimated, were patronised than over *.* Everybody will deligbteu with lie pantomimo that Mr. Arthur Collins has produced Drury Lane, seeing it contains every ingredient that spectacular comicality nerds to agreeably impress. Mr. Sturgcss'a book excellent ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: London and Provincial Entr'acte
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... attended Westminster Abbey in State. 26. Maid stone epidemic abating. November 1. Memorial to Sir Augustus Harris unveiled in Drury Lane Theatre. Funeral 'of the Duehees of net at Windsor ; Mr. J. Cbamberlait installed Lord Rector of Glasgow. 9. Lord Mayor ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7030 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Notes from Fleet Street

... country an amount of evirits equat. to three and. a. balf n years consumption, or say 117 million gallca-s. The Royal Theatre, Drury Lane, maintains its bigh tV reputation as the homod par exouellanpe of pantomime. 1 Babes io the Wood, produced on Boxing l' ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1760 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A Pantomime Anecdote

... A Pantomime Anecdote The late Mr. E. L. Blanchard, who wrote the Drury Lane annual for over twenty years, once told me an anecdote of his early career in that department. He had written a pantomime for a rather obtuse rustic manager of the Hebrew persuasion ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Penny Illustrated Paper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Graphic

... THE BABES IN THE WOOD AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE; THE BABES AT THE FAIR DRAWN r.y A. S. BOYD CINDERELLA AT THE GARRICK THEATRE: THE BALLROOM SCENE DRAWN BY H. JOHNSON ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 33 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

Photo. A. E!!is, MISS ADA BLANCHE. Upper Bal

... Beere's rec ~ ption was extremely cordial. This will receive attention next week. The gre.lt spectacle and funny pantomime at Drury Lane, and Mr. Oscar Barrett 's pantomime at the Garrick Thea ~ re, will have appeared before these lines are in print. Both appeal ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3258 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS DAY A.T THE WORKHOUSE

... the leading Snakesperian parts. Miss Verner has had considerable experience in drama, notably with Sir Augustus Harris's Drury Lane produc- tions, and has also scored a big success as Nelly Denver in The Silver King, a part which she played for over three ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Glamorgan Free Press
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1310 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

JAN. 1, 1898 an exceptionally good programme is promised for the New Year. The “Cinderella'’ Mr. Oscar Barrett ..

... ” and “Poor Pa Paid” —a title that comes home to paterfamilias with especial force at this particular season. As is the Drury Lane custom, the active and experienced new manager, Mr. Arthur Collins, has been prodigally lavish in the number of his tableaux ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Penny Illustrated Paper
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 511 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE COUNTY GENTLEMAN

... e urchin is Muter Battomley It must be ten years since Sir Augustus Harris presented us with The Babes in the Wood at Drury lAne. It certainly the beet pantomime he ever produced, but its glory dims before the magnificence of the display this year. ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Sporting Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2902 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NOVEMBER

... Annual Wesleyan Christmas Tree Bazaar tho School-room, Pitt-streot, Mr. Aid. (Mayor).—Mr William Terriss, actor, maroutside Drury-lane Theatre, by a man named Richard Arthur Prince. 17. At the Town Hall, Barnsley, Mr. R. Deane, M. 8., barrister-at-law, held ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Barnsley Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BABES IN THE WOOD

... The daily preen are unanimous in praise of the clever reproduction of the familiar pantomime. Babes in the Wood, at the Drury Lane Theatre. Says the Daily Telegraph Let 119 candidly allow that money appears to have been spent broadcast in the endeavour ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1898
Newspaper: Eastern Counties' Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 8 | Tags: none