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CENTURY THEATRE

... who con ducted, was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The benefit, it is hoped, will realise between £G00 and £700. A DRURY LANE SENSATION. Not the motor car race, nor the motor-car leap over the cliffs in The Great Millionaire, nor the bread-riot in ...

Christmas Entertainments for Children in London Theatres

... conservative. ^nd yet in this the first Christmas of the new century there comes hope for us, for in all London we have only Drury Lane pantomime and pitted against it the six efforts summarised herewith. Three of them are old friends who have brought us keen ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: BEN-HUR AT DRURY LANE THEATRE

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. BEN-HUR AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. VERY properly, of course, General Lew Wallace would not allow those portions of his story to be dramatised at which religious feeling might justly be aggrieved. But without the Nazarene-- as the characters ...

BOOKS RECEIVED: An Industrious Chevalier; The Problem of Janus; The Diversions of a Country Gentleman; The ..

... evening, Mr. A. D. Wire, of the General Manager's office, very honourably acquitted himself. The success of Ben-Hur at Drury -lane Theatre has been so great that Mr. Arthur Collins contemplates the formation of a syndicate for the purpose of presenting ...

SAPHO AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE

... Hur and the Derby. The Epsom and Ascot races have attracted many appreciative sportsmen to the chariot races in Ben Hur at Drury-lane Theatre, and one well- known representative of the Turf was so struck by the form of two of Ben Hur's horses, that he has ...

ADELPHI THEATRE

... English ver sion of Elizabeth was presented at Drury Lane in 1882. with, in the principal parts, Miss Sophie Eyre, Mr. J. H. Barnes, Mr. Arthur Dacre, Mr. Arthur Matthison, and Mr. Harry Nicholls. The new Drury Lane drajna, The Best of Friends written by Mr ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE BEST OF FRIENDS

... BEST OF FRIENDS. NO play has ever been better mounted, and few, if any, have been done as well as The Best of Friends at Drury Lane. The college scenes at Oxford, the banquet of yeo manry at Riverlea, the noble ducal residence, the military incidents at ...

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER, ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... the verge of Boxing Night and its dissipations. But pantomime is not what it was. The capital has turned its back on it, Drury Lane excepted, and I doubt not that the day is coming when the provinces will greatly modify their Christmas scheme. One must ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2134 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2053 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MOTHER GOOSE, AT DRURY LANE

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MOTHER GOOSE, AT DRURY LANE. THE children are really having a chance this season. Not only elsewhere, but at Drury Lane itself, the juveniles are by a long way better considered than has been the rule latterly. Their parents and ...

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... opening of the King's Theatre at Hammer smith has, it seems, raised this old question in a new form. First, of course, stands Drury Lane, followed by Covent Garden, but the third foremost position is ttMlay claimed by the newly-erected King's, which actually ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1652 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week; Exotic Drama

... Venice. Was there ever such a cast for The Merchant of Venice as that which will appear in the star matinee to be given at Drury Lane Theatre on Tuesday by the Actors' Association Shylock Sir Henry Irving Bassanio Mr. George Alexandei Duke of Venice Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 770 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review