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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

... Ni'ht's Dreare was vulgarised. It was hacked about atid in ie into a libretto for operas and operettas. G(riick mangled it for Drury-lane in 17683 and then came a period of fifty years during which the play was never acted at all. Amongst recent revivals are ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1568 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Advertisements & Notices

... Miss, SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. M R. H. COOPER C L IL FE, M BENEDICE, QUEEN'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER. Disengaged end of March. Drury-lane Theatre. L. WILFRED COTTON, . The Degenerates. Address, Ecrentrir Club. MR. THOMAS KINGSTON, Lead, with T. C. Williamson ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3021 | Page: 1 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... years, and his cloths were familiar to the frequenters of the old Foresters' and the Middlesex. the present act-drop at the Drury-lane hall being from his brush. He has painted for nearly every music ball in London, and has executeid work for the Aquarium ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4056 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Advertisements & Notices

... Football, Olympia, Racing, MIDDLESEX and BEDFORD. B. Warner and Co. J I I I MR. HERBERT CAMPBELL, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. MR. HARRY RANDALL, Principal Comedian, GRAND THEATRE, ISLINGTON. Mrs Carter, The Bore of Befual-green. G U S EL E ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4846 | Page: 32 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

Advertisements & Notices

... Powerful Cast, includilng ?? JOHN PEAOHEY (from the Lyric cnd onyal Court Theatres). Miss SOPHIIE LAREIN (frons Vaudeville and Drury-lane Theatres). Actingg-lrtnager, CoAtLrs LorewoOD. For Dates, address, HFeRoIERT YIFLLEY, LICEUM TIIEA4TRE, SHIEFFELD. Success ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4383 | Page: 3 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... King's Outcast, Serving the Queen, The Eve of Marriage, Mr Parker's autumn play at Terry's Theatre and two scenes for the Drury-lane pantomime of .Jack and the Beanstalk. Much sympathy is felt for the parents of the deceased in the severe loss they have ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5335 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GATT'S, CHARING-CROSS

... Hamiltons are a lady and gentleman, who maka a the audience laugh by their amusing burlesque of E scene in a well-known Drury-lane drama. Thi ungovernable fury of the lady who in her rage does al I sorts of extraordinary things is only equalled by th' ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3345 | Page: 19 | Tags: News 

CLOWN AND PANTALOON AND CO

... certainly was the father of English pantomime, and his pieces were so successful that the great tiarrick, across the way, at Drury-lane, had in self defence to produce the hated Italian style of amusement, not only at Christ- mas, but all the year round, and ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

BADDELEY'S BEQUEST

... added to the Drury lane Theatrical Fund. The portraits of Baddeley as Moses and the head of Garriek painted by Zoffany, but left in an unfinished state, were presented by Baddelev's executor to Mr William Dunn, the Treasurer of Drury-lane Theatre. Mr Dunn ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 14 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... MIDDLESE~X and BEDFORD. F. Warner and Co. Apa Brit Giq M M M A spea T. liter sket. I- - I MR. HERBERT CAMPBELL, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. - jMjR. HARRY RANDALL, E, Principal Comedian, GRAND THEATRE, ISLINGTON. ''Mrs Carter, The Bore of Beflnal-gr'en. G ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4679 | Page: 32 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

PLAYERS OF THE PERIOD

... a. InI Manekrind, prolliced ast the ?? (t (Oct. ;.1, IsSI, Miss Larry apmeared as Jessie. Iii 1SS5, siiss l1arry was at Drury lane piaviirg Dick. Sh i x .cte(l airother swit p rt, Joe, in Saricrd frein ItrC St rCcti, prodlic rl at the 'arurrer' oir Oct ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 770 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... the heartier becomes the applause. Mr Harry Mansfield, after singing a song descriptive of an adventure he had at famous Drury-lane Theatre, makes his appearance as a gentleman in khaki. He gives a spirited rendering of The Dear Old Union Jack, at ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3277 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture