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... Drury Lane. It is always safe to predict a gorgeous spectacu- lar display at Drury Lane in the pantomime season, and “ Blue Beard,” which Mr. Arthur Collins produces on Boxing Night, is not likely to fall short of its predecessor. It is understood that ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPORT AT DRURY LANE

... SPORT AT DRURY LANE {There is to be quite a remarkably strong sporting flavour about the autumn production Drury-lane. Mr. Arthur Collins notable for the lavish way in which seeks realistically stage his dramas. The attractions this occasion are a “string” ...

Published: Monday 23 August 1909
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISS MARIE GEORGE S POPULAR SONG,

... MISS MARIE GEORGE’S POPULA ON Miss George, who is appearing as Katrina in “Dick at Drury- lane, sings very successfully the song, “I’m afraid to come home in the dark.” (Bassano.) cas eras A 53 a SS > ball a Soy ge ae em ee a? a Sean ry ee PRR ms oe os ...

Published: Tuesday 23 February 1909
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MOODY-MANNERS SEASON SUCCEEDS-

... week mof® this season. He is now working out 9 scheme for the production, on sound working basis, of opera English next at Drury Lane. All-lovers of opera in thi 9 country will wish Mr. Manners the success he so well deserves. He sanguine the* the London ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOG-BOUND LINER DEPARTS

... ar the subject of direct, inbercession, While Madame Ristori made her last a in this country, playing “ Lady Macbeth” et Drury- lane, the scene upon the “blasted heath” on one night was entirely through a black cat walk on to the stage and mewing piteously ...

Published: Tuesday 27 December 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WASTED

... WASTED VIGIL A lady who waited at the Drury Lane pit entrance for the Terry matinee from 1 a.m., and, after ten hours’ waiting, did not secure even standing room the theatre, complains that,the police allowed ■crowds of loafers, dirty and unkempt, to ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AN ACTRESS’S STORY

... married: in March, 1890, and afterwards lived at Peckham and Lewisham. In 1897, on Christmas Eve, she was rehearsing at Drury Lane, and she did not expect to finish till about two o’clock in the morning. She asked her husband come and meet her. He, however ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1902
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LEEDS AND YORKSHIRE MERCURY, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1903

... re-arrangement. As, however, it is the spectacular effects ’which require perfecting, the management have acted wisely, for Drury Lane has traditions to maintain in this respect, and the production is one which is exciting an unusual amount of interest. ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1902
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEAD ACTOR’S CAREER

... page in “ Richelieu.” The following year he joined a! stock com ny, and im his early days played with Edmund Falconer at. Drury- lane, Colonel Bateman at the Lyceum, and ames and Thorne at the Vandeville. After a two years’ tour in Australia (origi- nally ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1909
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRADFORD AMUSEMENTS

... and G. H. Elliott, the “chocolate-coloured coon,” occupies a place of honour. Another good turn is provided by Queenie the Drury Lane principal hoy, who specialises, “is London what it used he’’’ and a brilliant exhibition is seen in Ganty’s illuminated ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STAGE STARS OF THE ROMANTIC

... when her husband was lodged in the King’s Bench Prison she went with him and kept him. It was when she was playing Perdita Drury Lane that she captivated the Prince, who began the “Florizel ’ letters. From this entanglement he only got free by the payment ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 7 | Tags: none