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OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC.: MORE REVISITED, AND CHARLEY'S AUNT REVIVED

... revue at the Ambassadors Theatre, ripples as it runs and changes but stops not, and so I looked in the other day to see how time was dealing with the little West-street house, which is hard by Cambridge Circus and the Palace Theatre. You have to mention the ...

GOOD STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS

... The ballet-dancer whose dancing and mimicry are the most interpretative is the best. The development of the ballet of the theatre (in France and England), after the advent of Louis XIV, the founder of modern stage ballet, is the main theme of the book ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1691 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

GOOD STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS

... The ballet-dancer whose dancing and mimicry are the most interpretative is the best. The development of the ballet of the theatre (in France and England), after the advent of Louis XIV, the founder of modern stage ballet, is the main theme of the book ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1691 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Things New; At the Theatres

... tlbings flew; Bt tbe ^beatves. THIS year's Drury Lane pantomime, Puss in Boots, lives well up to the reputation of the theatre both in its humours and the beauty and striking splendour of its spectacular effects. The ballet of the butterflies in the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1761 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: When R. G. Came to London

... long he was well enough to enter the new Eldorado, Silver City, commonly called Leadville, and appear at the local variety theatre. I managed to amuse the audience in a mild way, he says, and at the end of the week Mr. Nuttall handed me twenty-five dollars ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 684 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A MODERN COLUMBUS

... things are like good resolutions they should be carried out. The hint was taken, and the audi ence was appeased. At a London theatre of varieties the same thing happened, and the author thus appealed to the mother: 'Madam, dear lady, will you kindly quieten ...

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. THE PARISH PUMP forms the chief element of the second programme of the Horniman Season at the Duke of York's and is quite good fun, but by no means brilliant. It is fairly modern in sub ject, distinctly old-fashioned in ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 407 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

ROUND THE THEATRES

... SKETCH WHICH WAS RECENTLY AT THE COLISEUM AND IN WHICH THE ACTOR WILL SHORTLY APPEAR AT THE ALHAMBRA THEATRE. PUSS IN BOOTS, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. Puss (Miss Pence Mayer), acting on behalf of her master, the hero, endeavours to propitiate the heroine's ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... ROUND T H E THEATRES. THE PALLADIUM.-- There being a pause in theatres this week, I was allowed to go to a music-hall as a treat. offi cially, I seldom go to music halls. When I do go I pay at the door. It will be under stood, therefore, that I-- offi ...