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AMUSEMENTS

... the Drury Lane pantomime, where the tune of that rollicking ditlv, On Mafeking Night, also does duty to a different setting. J. M. B. THE MOST AMUSING SCENE IN THE PANTOMIME AT DRURY LANE This is the funniest scene in the whole of the Drury Lane pantomime ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2085 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, AT DRURY LANE: SKETCHES BEHIND THE SCENES. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 13 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL GOSSIP: THE WEST-END THEATRES WERE CLOSED

... THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL GOSSIP. The West-End Theatres were Closed when the grievous news of Queen Victoria's death reached London. Drury Lane re-opened on Saturday last. It was a considerate act on the part of town Managers to decide that the chief playhouses should ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1505 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

NEWS FROM THE PLAYHOUSES

... deed, they were still adjudged vagabonds, who could be bullied almost anywhere, for in the very year that the Tatler began Drury Lane was shut by order of the Lord Chamberlain on account of the manager's treatment of his troupe. Pope, writing on August 19 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1330 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS' MEMORIAL TABLET

... which was used by the regiment as a badge. The work has been executed by Messrs. Hart, Son, Peard and Co., Limited, of 88, Drury Lane, Strand, W.C., and will be on view at their premises from July 29 to August 3, so that members who were in the battalion ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MISTAKE OF THE SQUIRE

... knew little of what passed in the gay world. Mistress Springfield,' the landlord went on, in a kind of rapture, is from Drury Lane no less and is one of the delightfullest actresses ever man saw in the course of a long life To see her as Sir Harry Wildair ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3116 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE GREAT MILLIONAIRE

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE GREAT MILLIONAIRE. DRURY LANE THEATRE, as it is re-opened, remodelled by the architect, and refurnished by the upholsterer, is much as it ought to be. One can get to one's seat comfortably, and be at case when there. For fine ...

GOOD NEWS FOR DANCERS!: COVENT GARDEN'S NEWEST GARB

... order that he might cut away what seemed likely to prove a very dangerous local winter opposition to the attrac tions at Drury Lane, which our lamented friend Gtis always so delighted to call The National Theatre. But never, either in my dear dead ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 612 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Portraits

... Majesty's in 1867, and the removal to Drury Lane in the following year. In 1869 he was in partnership with Gye, and the two made in three months at Covent Garden a profit of over 22,000 Then in 1871 Mapleson was back at Drury Lane, taking Sir Michael Costa with ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2127 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOME STAGE PLAYS IN 1901: A RETROSPECT

... the production of Mr. H. V. Esmond's new play, The Sentimentalist Melodrama was re presented by The Great Millionaire at Drury Lane while the Adelphi, the old home of the melodrama, was not only robbed of its name, but was given up to the inanities of ...