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THE LIFE OF THACKERAY

... as the reproducers wanted to make out. Compare the Manager from London, with all its suggestion of the tawdriness of the theatre of those far-off days, with the suggestion of the refinement beneath the Bohemianism of the well-known scene of Master Pendennis ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... extensive and expensive ventures ever witnessed in a suburban theatre is that to be seen this week at Mr. Robert Arthur's lovely theatre at Kennington. In other words, Mr. Wilson Barrett is at that theatre giving the first performances in London of his adaptation ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2026 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THEATRE GOSSIP: CLOSURE

... wife of the Societaire of the Theatre-Franqais. Such performances will prove sensational, no doubt, but the true artist should have higher aims. The Princess's. The proposed continuous entertainment at the Princess's Theatre, alas for the poor house scene ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2109 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE HAYMARKET THEATRE: ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE

... T H E II AY M A R IC E T THEATRE ITS PR h SENT AND FUTURE. IN connection with Messrs. Harrison and Maude's recent commence ment of their new Haymarket season with their splendidly cast and sumptuously mounted revival of The School for Scandal, Sketch ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 823 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... students of the Royal College of Music performed the opera at the Lyceum Theatre, and it was given last year at the Hampstead Conservatoire. The performance at the Coronet theatre was a creditable one, Mrs. Grace Wike, as the heroine, and Mr. Edward lies ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2834 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP: SIR HENRY IRVING'S LYCEUM REVIVALS

... Silver Slipper, to be produced next Saturday, June 1, at the Lyric Theatre. Playgoers have always been charmed with Miss Blythe whenever she has appeared at the Metropolitan theatres. She will readily be remembered at Daly's as Iris, the Greek Slave, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2520 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... public, and the story caught the general fancy Professors lecture on him, critics write books about him the Moscow Artistic Theatre is going to act his new play. Gor'ki's career is in many ways reminiscent of that of Mr. Frank T. Bullen. That extraordinary ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

HAUD IMMEMOR

... Peter Borthwick (of the Morning Post), and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean. Our author says My father and mother believed in the theatre as an element in the education of children, and we were often taken to the plav. Macready, the KLeans, Tyrone Power, Helen ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1338 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

ULYSSES: THE POEM

... W w ULYSSES: THE POEM.* ON leaving Her Majesty's Theatre after witnessing the first performance of Ulysses. the play, my disappointment was tempered with the sincere hope that Mr. Stephen Phillips's work would prove itself to be better suited for ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... solitaire. Ibsen's first play, Catilina, written in secret, was offered without success to the Director of the Christiania Theatre, and then, to every publisher in the Capital. It was ultimately published, under the pseudonym Brunhiolf Biarme, at the expense ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 966 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR: MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION

... wonder, and the author is strangely self-deluded in fancy ing that he startled all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession whatever that may mean. As a matter of fact, the performance of the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

TALES ABOUT TEMPERAMENTS

... short plays. One of the plays, The Repentance, will be remembered as having been performed not long ago at the St. James's Theatre. In a prefatory note, the author rather goes out of her way to tell the reader that, although the public did not understand ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review