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A BELLE AMONG THE BEAUX

... manager of Alley (Fig. 1) and Aungier Street theatres. The e enjoyed a reputation second only to that of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, and although many Irish actors crossed the water to make their name London, the traffic was by no means a Garrick's vi ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 62 | Tags: none

111 8 which be discussed hi plans for Lane, he confidently Drury Lane, he confidently claimed I have compleated a

... 111 8 which be discussed hi plans for Lane, he confidently Drury Lane, he confidently claimed I have compleated a design which I believe to be free from every serious objection. In these Observations he gave convincing and well-articulated solutions ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1188 | Page: 80 | Tags: none

COUNTRY

... MAKER by J OH:\' C ORNFORTH LO:'{DO:'{'S HORSE IX THE ::--riKETrES by R. . SUiiii\IERHAYS . . . . ..THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE by MARCUS BINNEY . . A DOG TH. T LOOKS LIKE A LIO:-,r by S . I\l. LAMPSON .. A VIEW OF THE R[VE R by CHRISTOPHER NEVE. ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4126 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

C 0 U TR Y Ll FE-DECEM BE R 10, I 9 7 0 THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE By

... C 0 U TR Y Ll FE-DECEM BE R 10, I 9 7 0 THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE By MARCUS BINNEY The present theatre at Drury Lane was built by Benjamin Dean Wyatt in 1811- 12. Here it is suggested his choice as architect was cltw to his stucly of the problems ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1235 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

one wonders if it was only the young and bold who were willing to chance their future in a field,

... hear peculators who built in other words speed, economy and 4.-THE Kll\G' COU TRY LIFE-DECEMBER 10, 1970 iJI properly. and Drury Lane had been so enlarged, Richard u mberland observed in 1806, as to be hencef n vard t heatres for spectators rather than ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

The circular plan enabled Wyatt to bring all Lhe spectators much closer to the stage circle, rather than four ..

... that ringed the audi- torium at Bordeaux taking away much of the acknowledged benefit of smooth and unbroken surfaces. t Drury Lane, vVyatt omitted the columns, emphasising in his Observations the need to avoid all breaks and projections. In the second ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 466 | Page: 80 | Tags: none

LOOKING BACK ON BEETHOVEN

... it to him. He was greatly annoyed that he received no reply. It was, however, first performed here at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in February, 1815, and an E nglish edition of Beethoven's own piano a rrangement of the work appeared the following year ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2465 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

has an unusual window (shown in my photograph) in the middle section of the west wall of the tower, about

... money is said to have originated with the actor Charles Macklin, who quarrelled with Garrick over the conduct of affairs at Drury Lane.-En.] THE SOUTH AND WEST WILTSHIRE SIR,- Daily's Hunting Directory says that the South and vVest \.Yiltshire is probably ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1536 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

PORTRAIT OF AN ACTRESS

... of applause because of the breathing space they gave her; how she adapted her style to the requirements of the enlarged Drury Lane theatre after 1794 ; and how (according to her husband) drinking small beer helped her to weep, while with any other strong ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2109 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

BOURNEMOUTH POOLE WAREHAM RINGWOOD LYMINGTON FORDINGBRIDGE FOX & MODERNISED FARMHOUSE RESIDENCE Fordingbridge 2 ..

... independent practice as a painter of wild life in Drury Lane, and the following year Richard Symonds records that he was paid £8 for a picture of fish : Visited Barlow living neare ye Drum in Drury Lane. For a quadro of ffishes he made he had 8 li . He ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18283 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

AN EARLY PAINTER OF FOULE AND FFISHES

... independent practice as a painter of wild life in Drury Lane, and the following year Richard Symonds records that he was paid £8 for a picture of fish : Visited Barlow living neare ye Drum in Drury Lane. For a quadro of ffishes he made he had 8 li . He ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2670 | Page: 75 | Tags: none