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DESTRUCTION OF A MENAGERIE BY FIRE

... entirely confinet to lthe interior of the building. EXPLOSION AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. 'lwo men, ncased Hairris and Creed, were on Wednesday night engaged in the liine-liglht roam, at Drury Lane Thoatre, Londoci, mixing gas, when one of he libags they were ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1884
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... vandalism could be prevented. There has been a tempest in a teapot about the play of Formosa, now being represented at Drury Lane, certain of the critics having spoken of the piece as one of an im- moral tendency. Perhaps the worst that can be brought ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2025 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN TELEGRAMS

... atVoslau, lu~r Vienna, wvhich did great damage. Frivoli, the new comic opera by 3I. leve was prodnced on Tnesday night at Drury Lane Theatre, ~ ~ ~ th LAn Fiberew wrdvas favourablv reevelvd. RIOI igebr ofn Pereslavl died lately at the het hdeof 117 years ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON

... takingr place iii tule theatrical world ! A few days d ago Mr. C. Martlews and Madame Vestris appeared r onl tre list of tie Drury Lane conipany, and Mondav s mooriing the play-goinig public was informed, by the a bold type of Mr. Webster's bills, that they ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1842
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: News | Words: 2897 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE SEQUEL TO LOTHAIR

... wemi.,tywhispe that the same assistants aeben secured for th, -j future as for the present work- namely, the writer of tlae Drury Lane pantomimes, a gentleman on. the staff of the Court Jetsu-ol. and a cole. bhated mad-doetor who is in the habit of making ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL TO THE STAGE

... memorable in the an- IAL nals of the English dramna, took place yesterday even- C ing. Mr. Macready took his pn tirg becefit at Drury lane, and appeared for the lart time, in the character of 'itS Macbeth. The termination of his carer was wortlhy of l or its ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1851
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 968 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... of German operas given in the Manchester Theatre last season, brought Benjamin Sloman, stage carpenter and machinist, of Drury Lane, before the Bow-street magistrate, on Wednesday last, on a charge of perjury. Slounau had made an affidavit atJudge's Chambers ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: News | Words: 2012 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

Local Intelligence

... by a spark from a stove in tlee third story hasing conunu- nicated with some tape. THE ANTI-CORN-&I)V LEAGUE-met aain in Drury- lane Theatre on Wednesday evening. The attendance, as on all previous Occasions, seemed to show that matters of reality, when ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1843
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1991 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA

... ignited, streams of life set towards the theatres. The Pantomime was then the Moe object of pursuit. I can only speak of Drury Lane a yet, and there Mr. Smith, as great a master in the l angerial art as Talleyrand in the diplomatic, as usual, Oatsbines ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2036 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE STAGE

... Tragedye was one. When Killigrew, after the Restoration, established the King's Company, and opened a new theatre, in 1665, at Drury Lane, Julius Csesar became one of the stock pieces, and seems to have been constantly played during the reigns of Charles ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1898
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... leaning toward the the exact sciences. has - Mr. Charles Harcourt, the actor, who, whiloe life engaged in rehearsing at Drury Lane last, week fedi poi through a trap door, has died from his injuries. oil MDr. Harcourt p. rforcned in liverpool in Mr. t:aker's ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1880
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE PANTOMIMES

... forbidden to speak in it, succeeded as it panUtoiniistt in movitg his nuilience to tears. In1 1702, Ric!4 thc anage ger of Drury Lane Theatre, introduced pantomiumle upon the English stage, and lie himself, under the feigned namie of ] Thn, played the part ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1848
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: News | Words: 1019 | Page: 6 | Tags: News