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DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... Some of the pantomimes are nearly played out already, and, with confidence, it may be predicted that the holiday shows at Drury Lane and the Britannia will once more out live all their rivals. It would hardly be fair to say that this means the survival ...

PAST HENRY THE FIFTH'S

... recollection. Sir Augustus Harris could not have opened his successful Drury Lane management with a more patriotic play than Shakspere's Henry the Fifth. W, C. F. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF A DRURY LANE RL AY- BILL DATED NOV. 17, 1879. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 794 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

War and Other Concerts

... Beerbohm Tree and other well-known artists taking part. In May, too, a concert on a very grand scale is being organised at Drury Lane by Madame Cellini, with, it is hoped, the assistance of many eminent singers, and perhaps Madame Patti, in aid of the Princess ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 754 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... an actress who should very seldom be absent from the London stage. It is expected that a dramatic season will be given at Drury Lane Theatre at Easter. Should this project be carried out, a play called Marsac of Gascony, by Mr. Vroom, a new author, will ...

THE LONDON THEATRES: Don Juan's Last Wager

... The first-named will, it is said, be run, not by Earl de Grey, but by Mr. Gray (who is not utterly uncon nected with the Drury Lane directorate), and the second by Mr. W. S. Penley. The third is the long-talked-of new playhouse of Mr. Charles Frohman's ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1533 | Page: 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Bystander

... to Drury Lane, may see that on its north side what a fine opportunity there is for laying out a garden, and thus isolating the theatre altogether. A theatre with a garden would be a novelty, especially in such a crowded neighbourhood as Drury Lane. The ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1349 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... of matters charitable, it is to be hoped that a special measure of success will attend the variety matinee, to be held at Drury Lane in May, which Madame Cellini is working up so energetically on behalf of Princess Christian's Homes of Rest for otir disabled ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1562 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

AMUSEMENTS

... Thursday Cyrano de Bergerac was produced at Wyndham's. On Saturday Mr. Ed.vard Vroom's play, Marsac of Gascony, is due at Drury Lane. Mr. Taber is preparing Quo Vadis for the Adelphi, either cn April 28 or the following Saturday. I shall deal with these ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE GREAT DUSE

... her ordinary repertoire. MR. KDWAltD VliOOM, AUTHOR OF THE PIECE, WHO l'UAYS ADRIAN DE MARSAC IN MARSAC OF GASCONY, AT DRURY LANE. portrait reproduced hp permission of the Thomas and IVyllc Lithograph if Company, New York, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Theatres: CYRANO DE BERGERAC IN ENGLISH

... The new heroic romantic comedy in which Mr. Edward Vroom, the American actor, made his appearance on Saturday evening at Drury Lane, in the double capacity of author and actor, follows closely upon the production of the English version of M. Rostand's ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 827 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

AMUSEMENTS

... with much greater effect. 'jphere is precious little Gascony in Mr. Edward Vroom's play, Marsac of Gascony, produced at Drury Lane last Saturday. It is the worst specimen of the musketeer mania that has overtaken the playwrights. Marsac is a young im ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1663 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEATRICAL NOTES

... has spared fire has destroyed. It is for the sufferers from these twin disasters that the Canadian matimSe, to be given at Drury Lane on the 19th, makes appeal; and one is justified in anticipating that the answer will be no half-hearted one. The profession ...