OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... the new play is not to be producea . t - o .emer. .arrnamgements are already in active progress for the autumn drama at Drury Lane. It will be again from the pens off Messrs Raleigh and Hamilton, and, as I understand, one of the principal scenes will ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1898
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4452 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SCIENCE: INDUSTRIES

... worth sending steamers to Madagascar. Tiac largest fireproof curtain yet constructed for a theatre has just been fitted at Drury-lane by ATerryweather and Sons. It measures Q2ft. by 30ft, 6in., and is sispended by steel wire ropes running over pulleys fixed ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1898
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1855 | Page: 16 | Tags: News 

PLAYERS OF THE PERIOD

... bow to the public as a little dancer at the age of six, in a fairy play at the Royalty Theatre; afterwards appear- ing at Drury-lane Theatre and all the leading West- end houses, and touring throughout the kingdom. She has fulfilled engagements under the ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2538 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

... be obtained. I 0_Thl, ?? w'as a7,sowered in The Era of ray 7th, in reply ?? T. re-, lJtO ?? 'was the Cordelia 'when the Drury-lane ,poeny that opened the Haytearket in 1706 produced Ring LeOtt o 9ct. 30th. Mrs Seytnotur played Lear's youngest deteghtee' ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

PLAYERS OF THE PERIOD

... Coote, and John Maclean, thus showing that Mr Melford's versatility is unique. After engagements with Sir Augustus Harris at Drury-lane in Formosa and Cheer, Boys, Cheer, also in his panto- mime at Liverpool, he played in The Span of Life, Saved from the Sea ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2512 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

GOVERNMENT SERVANTS' CONFERENCE— YESTERDAY

... exceeding the number of persons to be elected. SCeLE 1r DRUCY-LANIZ.-A shceking scene occurred on Mlonday night, about 7.3i, in Drury-lane, A man residing in Feathers-court becemi involved in a brawl with three women, who got hiim down upon the pavement and attacked ...

Published: Sunday 05 June 1898
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS

... ; at 13, Digby-street, Bethual-green, at 1.59-a~m.; at 125,Old-street, St. Luke's, at 9.4 am.; at 15, Betteu-ton-street, Drury-lane, at 1.29 p m.; at 1.47 p.m., at 23, Hardiunton. street, Portman Market, N.W.; at 8.7 pm., at 48 and 50, Southwark-street ...

Published: Sunday 05 June 1898
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 18 | Tags: News 

PLAYERS OF THE PERIOD

... he played in over thirty operas. He was also engaged by the late Sir Augustus Harris for four seasons in English Opera at Drury-lane, and by Mr Lowenfeld, at the Lyric Theatre, for Incognita and The Magic Opal, A large portion of Mr Child's time is taken ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... very noses every evening; and at sundry hours ladies and gerntle- men fresh (or preserved in spirits) from the purlieus of Drury Lane show their opinion of Mr. Clark's idyllic temple of law and repose by defying the one and courting the other. A well-known ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1898
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

JONAH

... brief day. Similarly there was once a deceptive gleam of brightness in my friend Jonah's career as a playgoer. It was at Drury Lane last September. We got splendid seats 'and every- thing went well till the curtain rose. Then like a thunderbolt Jonah's ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1898
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... with a large troupe of artistes. The house was built withi a dual object, to serve bobs theatrical and circus purposes. Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres in London have been so employed, hut this is a novelty in Belfast. Judging frons the talent engaged ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1898
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2799 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... I and wife. wiho had been parted for eight years. I The playbills inchide those announcing Keen's - first performance at Drury Lane, January 25, I1t-4, and hislasts prnarance at Covent Garden, I March 25, 1833, tlie first and only occasion 1whhereotn lie ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1898
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6534 | Page: 7 | Tags: News