... Abyssinia of its independent sovereignty. fact that the message has to do with Abyssinia. Existing speech records back as far 1881, when Disraeli made what is believed to be the first record in this country. The phonograph had only been invented four years ...

... alterations were and Harry Paine. He was last day the I and departs, leaving the made to the booking and entrance Drury sLane in 1881, after which down asleep beneath a tree. Madly halls of Hippodrome, played and acted as ballet master seeking Ins lost love ...

... greatest actor, Edwin Booth, will be celebrated on November 13 next. Sir Arthur was the Roderigo in “ Othello, the Lyceum, in 1881, when Irv ing and Booth alternated the roles of Othello and Iago, an occasion that came to be regarded as one of the finest ...

... which is substantially correct except for an error in stating that the first public exhibition took place in San Francisco in 1881. From the news cuttings in our possession it was clearly May 4, 1880. Prof. W. R. Miles, of Standford University, U S A., who ...

... HE ERA PINERO memorable cast in which Irving and Booth alternated Othello and luyo at the Lyceum in 1881. Booth, the Edmund Wear of nine teenth century America, was then in his decline. “But it was clear,” Pinero said, ‘“‘ that he had been a beautiful ...

... announcing it as beiny the last time the great trage dian would appear in that character im f.ondon. FIFTY YEARS AGO December 10, 1881. Respecting Bernhardt, a correspondent from “With reference to my report of the insult offered here to Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt ...

... with all the nf> members of the company in ■ ist. i icr fine Pinero play to be perno was The Squire,” produced li'- ember 29, 1881. In this Mr. Vrs. Kendal and John Hare apported by fine cast. This -I' ogth play was preceded by i in Dick, with Kate Bishop ...

... memories was notice that ** The Era ” gave him for his acting in an amateur production. The criticism is quoted in the book. In 1881, Henry Arthur,” despite the fact that he had a growing family, decided to throw up his work as a commercial traveller and go ...

... was perhaps his greatest personal triumph), 1879; “Two Roses,” 1881; “Othello (in which Irving alternated the parts of Othello and lago with the great American tragedian, Edwin Booth) 1881; Much Ado About Nothing,” 1882; Twelfth Night, 1884; Faust, ...

... rebuilding the theatre to facilitate a scheme for broad new central streets through the City. The present theatre was opened in 1881, and had two predecessors the same site, the first being Cooke's Olympic Circus, opened in 1803. The Amphitheatre, which followed ...

... first produced at Covent Garden in 1780. There have been frequent revivals since, notably those at the Lyceum in 1876 and 1881. The latest, so far as we have been able to trace, was at the Court in 1913. Margaret Stuart. —Jessie Matthews made her first ...

... (See page 15) BURNS’S (Members of Agents’ Association, Ltd.) Suite 17 : 26, Charing Cross Rd., W.G.2 ’Phonos: Tliplo Bar and 1881 Telegrams : •• Attraction, Laofaro. L—don. ...