... of Venice,’ occasions immense laughter. The spectacle of The Cataract of the Ganges, with its “real honea”, presented Drury Lane under Ellistons’s management in 1823, proved so remarkable attraction that it was deemed necessary to produce some similar ...

... followed him admiringly. Supreme success crowned his labours. The year 1833 was memorable for the coalition, for season, of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. Both establishments came under the government of the once famous Hr. Alfred Bunn, whose monopoly ...