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THE BENSON RÉPERTOIRE COMPANY AT THE LYCEUM

... far as the productions of our national dramatist are concerned. The play in question is one associated with a memorable Sadler's Wells management in the 'fifties, and has not, I believe, been acted in this country between 1874 when given by Mr. Charles ...

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

SHAKSPERE AT THE LYCEUM

... Shaksperian repertoire theatre that this country has been able to boast since Phelps retired from his memorable management at Sadler's Wells. It is to Sir Henry Irving's lasting fame that his genius has illumined a number of Shakspere's greatest plays, but the ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1202 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... Neither Richard the Second nor Coriolanus has been regularly produced in London since the memorable Phelps season at Sadler's Wells, which theatre is now. in effect, a music-hall run on the two- liouses-per-night system, with a twopenny gallery, a threepenny ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2398 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... theatrical shelf for about the same time. This is Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which was last submitted to Londoners at Sadler's Wells, in the wonderful Phelps series. This play, which, if not entirely, was at least partly written by Sweet Will, is not ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1597 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... some passages here and there), had not been presented on any stage since that great actor Samuel Phelps produced it at Sadler's Wells over forty-five years ago. As in the case of that memorable production, and as also in the case of apparently the last ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3088 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. WILLIAM MOLLISON

... Still a Lad in My Teens, at Sadler's Wells Theatre. After a good deal of experience as an amateur in Scotland, in which, in spite of my youth, I had played such parts as Eccles, in 'Caste,' I joined the company at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was playing ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 763 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... entertainer passed away at his humble abode in Southampton Street, Pentonville Road, not far from the historic theatre of Sadler's Wells, which was the scene of some of his principal triumphs. When only three years of age Joe everybody's Joe, as Tom Hood ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2226 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: THE NEW YEAR'S PRODUCTIONS

... example as regards clear enunciation. Miss Marriott won an honourable reputation as leading actress and manageress of Sadler's Wells after Phelps's glorious and memorable Shaksperian reign in the old playhouse near the Goswell Road. Her Hamlet was a theme ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2354 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

SIR HENRY IRVING'S GRAND PRODUCTION OF SHAKSPERE'S CORIOLANUS

... playgoers not of an age to remember the late Samuel Phelps's impersonation of the character during his memorable season at Sadler's Wells. And. hv the wav. it O 7 J v _ seems strange that this revival of Phelps's should have been ignored not only by certain ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... his teens had finished he was well known in many a theatrical and fit-up town. Ilis first London appearance was made at Sadler's Wells, where, under the late Miss Marriott's management, he played a comparatively subordinate character in the late Mr. W. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2330 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

DAN LENO: HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER

... I struck him at the now defunct Deacon's Music Hall, which was on the opposite bank of the New River to that on which Sadler's Wells stands, and in the very terrace that Mr. Pinero chose for the residence of his actress-heroine in Trelawny of the Wells ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1600 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP: THE TWIN SISTER, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S

... fact, the first produced dramatisation of Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne's fascinating sea-dog was, a few days ago, brought out at Sadler's Wells Theatre by the well-known leading man, Air. Roy Redgrave. I learn also that there is imminent yet another dramatisation ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2231 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs