... DRURY LANE THEATRE. Dante kept up its popu larity to the last, a crowded audience witness ing the final representa tion at Old Drury on Saturday evening, when there was enthusiastic ap lause for Sir Henry Irving in his really striking por traiture of ...

... Ellis IValery Sir Henry Irving. I have rarely seen so much enthusiasm in the playhouse as that which echoed and re-echoed at Drury Lane on the last night of Dante. Sir Henry was more magnetic, more masterly, than ever. He will not return to town for twelve ...

... first symphony in D, by Herr Mahler, a gentleman who con ducted some of the Wagner representations at Covent Garden and Drury Lane in Sir Augustus Harris's time, but who now is director of the Imperial Opera at Vienna, a Rammer symphonie by Wolff-Ferrair ...

... management have decided to give Saturday matinees in addition to the usual Wednesdays. In the four acts of the new production at Drury Lane Theatre, due on September 17th, there are thirteen scenes, the most noticeable being Kempton Park on a Jubilee Stakes day ...

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... miseries of this world and the next I do not see why we should object to the Hunters of the Comedy and accept the Ugolinos of Drury Lane. I cannot myself revel in scenes like the first act of The Climbers, but I must have some thing more definite than we have ...

... talk, though at present, perhaps, little more than a mere floating idea, of a three months' season by the Manners troupe at Drury Lane, if that house be available. MR. MCALPIN'S CROSS AND CRESCENT As time did not allow of more than one performance of Mr ...

... with their brethren from one side of the house to another. So we pass on to 1733, when Theophilus Cibber revolted from Drury Lane and appeared 011 the boards of the Haymarket. The actual history of the theatre may be said to have begun from this date ...

... the Shaftesbury. She appeared at that house in Are You a Mason? and Jedbnry Junior. Prior to this engagement she was at Drury Lane, where she played in melodrama. Miss Webster is a remarkably quick study, a fact which has frequently stood her in good ...

... decided that we shall have opera in English at Drury Lane, simultaneously with the grand season at Covent Garden. It seems a great pity that the two should clash, but as the summer is the only time that Drury Lane is avail able, the result is unavoidable. ...

... it 1802. --Madame Tussaud made her first appearance with waxworks 1809.-- Began its career as a theatre (by the burnt-out Drury Lane company) II. The Second Lyceum 1816.-- Lyceum rebuilt as a theatre at a cost of £80,000. Reopened June 17 1817.-- Gas introduced ...

... Easter two other companies desire to come to London next summer. One of them is for German opera, but having failed to secure Drury Lane, it has resolved to tour in the provinces until a theatre is available. It is a serious company, which plays not only Wagnerian ...