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... of the publishing house of Dodd, Mead and Co., New York Samuel Johnson's Prologue spoken at the opening of the theatre in Drury Lane in 1747 with Garrick's Epilogue. A facsimile of the hitherto undiscovered first edition with Preface by Austin Dobson and ...
... of applause. I wondered whether disappointed authors were scattered freely through the pit of Drury Lane, as we know they would have been in the Drury Lane of a century or more ago, when the pit of old Drury was the very centre of light and leading. T ...
... race. We all know the race which is going to make the fortune of every nice person in the drama we have seen that race at Drury Lane but from a literary point of view I do not believe it has ever been better done than by Mr. Stacpoole. jp* or the rest of ...
... replv is that Dublin has at least two buildings of huge proportions, larger, I imagine, than any London theatres other than Drury Lane and Covent Garden that Dublin sees the best production of some of the best plays in the English language that from the days ...
... deadly a slaughter of a harmless moth with 8 a sledge hammer. How many plays are there ft with which you could crowd the Drury Lane stage with a fine variety of England's best lift players? Assuredly not half-a-dozen. Money 1$ is one. It is commonplace ...
... then he wrote of events a hun- dred vears earlier. HThe other day I went to see Mr. Arthur Collins's beautiful pantomime at Drury Lane, in which my clever friend, George R. Sims, has collaborated so successfully. I was not in the least impressed with the ...
... (Methuen). The time of his story is the ft South African War, the place Park Lane and ft the veldt. This rather suggests a Drury Lane ft melodrama, bnc there is not a single taint of melodrama in The Judgment House. The story is a vivid romance with a South ...
... was produced in London in 1806 it was not separately printed. Every lover of Lamb knows the story of that first night at g Drury Lane the hopes that this little farce might have a run, that it might produce its author £\00 j or even £200. But this was not ...
... am sorry that you will not be here to enjoy it. Once again all those of us who can afford such a luxury are hurrying to Drury Lane to secure seats for those wonderful performances in which the genius of Chaliapine and his fellow-countrymen find such perfect ...
... very thin volume. This is A Tribute to the Genius of William Shakf.spearf. being the i f( Programme of a Performance at Drury Lane Theatre on May 2, 1916, the Tercentenary of his Death Humbly Offered by the Players and their Fellow-workers in the Kindred ...
... tells us that two scenes from the play were performed at Drury Lane in 1703, and that there was a performance of the whole play at the Haymarket in 1707. The play con tinued to be acted at Drury Lane at long intervals in 1720 and in 1746 and in 1752, apparently ...
... Irving has not been spoken. There were moments when he rose to great heights of dramatic art. His Becket as I saw it at Drury Lane in the last year of his life seemed to me as good as anything I have ever seen from any British player. His Shylock, his ...