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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... companies, and his brother, Mr. Stratton Mills, is playing in Mr. Robert Arthur's pantomime, Dick Whittington, at the Kennington Theatre. Captain Cecil F. N. Macready, who has been promoted to the rank of Major on his appointment for service in South Africa, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5084 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUND THE PANTOMIMES: THEATRICAL FAIRIES OF YULETIDE

... Strand. MISS JULIA MACKAY, PRINCIPAL BOY IN DICK WHITTINGTON, AT TERRISS'S THEATRE, ROTHE RHITHE. Photo by Schloss, New York. MISS JENNIE OWEN IN ROBINSON CRUSOE, AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN. Photo by Illingicorth, Northampton. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON'S NEWEST AMUSEMENT TEMPLE AND ITS WHOLESALE PROMOTERS

... Leicester Square or rather, in Cranbourn Street, next door to Daly's, should turn out to be one of the grandest theatres yet seen in this many-theatre' d Metropolis is perhaps not to be wondered at when one comes to regard the extensive capital and boundless ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1395 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... nothing to stilts or any other adventitious aids, as a certain class of reporters would say. At the Kennington Theatre, the many-theatred Mr. Robert Arthur has produced a Dick Whittington pantomime which, although, singularly enough, it lias no ha ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2346 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GRENADIER GUARDS

... With the tow-row, tow-row, tow-row of the British Grenadiers. The recent fighting on the Western side of the South African theatre of war, at Belmont, Gras Pan, and the Modder River, has somewhat disconcerted those wise men that discuss tactics at the green ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

MISS EVA MOORE

... ingenue who maJces such a delightful Lucie Manette in Mr. Martin Harvey's revival of The Only Way at the Prince of Wales's Theatre. This photograph is by Gabell and Co., Pbury Street, S.W. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 38 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

END OF A RUNAWAY GIRL'S RUN

... END OF A RUNAWAY GIRL'S RUN. Owing to the Gaiety Theatre being required for the rehearsals of the new play, the run of A Runaway Girl will terminate on Saturday evening, Jan. 13. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. MARTIN HARVEY

... MARTIN HARVEY, The announcement of whose ye.- appearance as Sydney Carton in The Only IVay, at the Prince of (Vales' a Theatre, brought jog to the hearts of his many admirers. This photograph is by Alfred Ellis and IV alery, linker Street, II ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 44 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SNOW MAN, AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE

... THE SNOW MAN, AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE. THE SNOW MAN. THE WEDDING SCENE. From Photographs by Wykeham Balham High Road The Snow Man, the first of our Christmas pantomimes met with a warm welcome at the Lyceum in spite of the chilliness of the theme. Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

MR MARTIN HARVEY, THE POPULAR SYDNEY CARTON

... MR MARTIN IIARYEY, THE POPULAR SYDNEY CARTON. The resumption of the run of The Only Way at the Prince of Wales's Theatre takes place most opportunely. It comes at the moment when the lesson of self-sacrifice attains tremendous force. Sydney Carton gave ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

ECHOES FROM THE HOUSE

... weeks of anticipatory pleasure. The Christmas week dawned, and, his long discipline over, he joyfully wrote to the Garrick Theatre for two stall-tickets. The envelope lie expected came at last, and he slowly opened it without a penknife the longer to enjoy ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2506 | Page: 44 | Tags: none