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SIR A. HARRIS AND DRURY LANE

... of £680,819., but the ex- penses were so great that little or nothing was left. `The night the German Emperor visited Covent Garden Theatre the house was worth £5,658. His box alone cost £1,000. to decorate. When in the Jubilee year I determined to try ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1891
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 456 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON PANTOMIMES

... be clown. 'W Witch the world with noble horsemansihip is the motto se- lected by Mrr; W., Holland for his venture at Covent Garden. His pantomime, St, George and the Dragon, is to be in most respects an equestrian entertainmenit. It will be played ...

Published: Tuesday 23 December 1884
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 501 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... associations- As the destruction by fire of Covent Garden Theatre' after a masked ball, was the great opera event of 185G, so the burning of Her Majesty's Theatre will be the great event of 1867. Covent Garden had only been conrerted into an opera-house ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1867
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1774 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A PROFESSIONAL MERRY ANDREW

... a cown before him. Harry is very proud of his father, who diell five years ago. He played clown both at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, and much of the business still retained in the comic scenes was of his invention. It is not only on the stage that ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1883
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1191 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE EDUCATION LEAGUE AND THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER

... be~ttica. ci the esedlelue. canz be hid, free ot charge, ironsl te l'io- lirieter, Prof. . ?? BrowYn1 2, 3ilng Street, Covent Garden, tle- den. Bycry sufferer is Invited to try ens seusleic whirscil ii be seniton applicatUon, withi full instructiona, by ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1873
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 519 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

BEHIND THE SCENES

... feet by eight painted by Mir. Alatt Morgan, the well-known cartoonist of the TonaohasAk, and principal scenic artist of Covent Garden T'lhentro, and represents the 'prompt ' side or wing of the Stage of the theatre in question during the performance of ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1875
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 555 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... spared from Lord Roberts' forces. To IMPRors TEII, OEna.-Tbe Grand Opera Syndi- cate intend to spend £15,000 on improving Covent Garden Theatre. Their proposals meet about half the suggestions made by the London County Council. SnOOTLNG TEE ?? Liverpool Assizes ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1900
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 477 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE WITTON EXPLOSION

... despaired of by her father, a well-know phys~lcean, who has now discontinued practice. sent Free- 0. P. Brown. 2, King Strest. Covent Garden, London. c3Sl7 To goe value for your money, buy your dine 5 1mom llculton and O., ?? Street. The chespest h~D; r trade ...

Published: Monday 05 December 1870
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 520 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

COURT AND OFFICIAL

... art. Her Majesty the Queen has marked her approval of the Royal Volunteer Ball, which is to be held in the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, on the 7th of March, by desiring that the announcement should be made as under her own especial patronage, in addition ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 620 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... Exeter on February 16. The ceremony of cutting the Twelfth Night cake was performed at midnight on the great stage of Covent Garden, under most favourable auspices. Sir Augustus Harris had for the first time broken through the rule of cutting it upon ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1892
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2082 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... the operatiS situation may ?? be described. The troupe of her Majesty's opera have been trans- ferred to the boards of Covent Garden, where they sing under the alternate conductorship of Signor Auditi and Signor Li Calsi, to thee Royal Italian orchestra ...

Published: Monday 05 April 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2075 | Page: 5 | Tags: News