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THEATRE GOSSIP

... THEATRE, LONDON. Photo by D'Arcy, Dublin. MISS MABEL NELSON, WHO PLAYS PRINCESS PRETTY I. IN JACK AND THE BEANSTALK,'' AT DRURY. LANE. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2346 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... recovered from the illness which prevented her playing 011 Boxing Night, is now successfully appearing as principal boy in the Drury Lane pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Mrs. Patrick Campbell starts management entirely 011 her own account at the Royalty ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1363 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. SHAKESPEARE spells ruin. Thus in the long ago spake Chatterton, the lessee of Drury Lane, and Boucicault, the clever manufacturer of melodrama in which there was much money. Very recently we have had a similar deliverance from England's ...

THEATRE NOTES

... fushion, Mr. Arthur's venture should prove successful. At the moment of writing, Mr. Arthur Collins, as Managing Director of Drury Lane Theatre, seems to have arranged that the subject of the next pantomime at that historic house shall be on the theme of The ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 304 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

MDLLE. RITA PRESANO

... MDLLE. RITA PRESANO, WHO PLAYS PRINCE RACKET IN JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. FROM A rHOTOGRATH RV ALFRED ELLIS AND W ALERT, BAKER STREET, W. 0 ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 29 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS IRENE VANBRUGH AT HOME

... Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bourchier and Miss Irene Vanbrugh, who are associated with the recent successes of the Court Theatre, Drury Lane, and the Globe, have resided here for some time past. Sphinx, a favourite Chow-Chow, is pretty certain to inspect you as ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHITEFIELD MEMORIAL CHURCH: A Great Nonconformist Monument

... overrun the English-speaking world. But in his time Whitefield was a tremendous power. He was caricatured on the stage of old Drury Lane Theatre, and some years ago a laborious student made an interesting collection of the contemporary stage references to Metho ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

SPORSWOMAN'S PAGE

... My fear, however, is that they will become extremely common. Diana Ur-TO-DATE. The appearance of Miss Violet Cameron at Drury Lane Theatre, where she appeared at a very early age, is an event of con siderable interest to play goers. and we note with pleasure ...

THE BENSON RÉPERTOIRE COMPANY AT THE LYCEUM

... since 1879, when Mr. Calvert's version was revived, and George Rignold was the King, under the late Sir Augustus Harris, at Drury Lane. I am very glad that Mr. Benson begins his season with Henry the Fifth, for, of all the works by great dramatists, it is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

ROBERT LORAINE: ACTOR-WARRIOR

... experience. When, therefore, he was suddenly engaged at that theatre which has ever been the goal of all actors, namely, Drury Lane, to play the important character of the second hero, Dick Beach, in The White Heather. it did not surprise those of us ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 609 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... now a new and most convenient thoroughfare open for traffic, running immediately below Drury Lane Theatre, from Covent Garden and Wellington Street into Drury Lane. Of course it has entailed the disappearance of Jo's church yard in Bleak House which Miss ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3218 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... London in April, 1772, she failed to secure a hearing until her marriage, two months later, to Mr. Inchbald, an actor at Drury Lane, where in September of the same year she made her debut. She acted with her husband in the provinces until his death in ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3166 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs