Refine Search

Newspaper

Wells Journal

Countries

Regions

South West, England

Counties

Somerset, England

Access Type

390

Type

175
1

Public Tags

No tags available
More details

Wells Journal

Music and Drama

... . The latter, we are pleased to see, is losing som, what of his vulgarity on the Italian boards. DRURY LANE. Mr. Anderson, the late lessee of Drury Lane Theatre* has concluded his management, like many of his predecessors, in the Insolvent Debtors Court; ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Facetiæ

... is to save the expense of advertisements, enabling the ventilating stove to puff itself. The Stable Mind. —Theatre Royal Drury Lane. —Dear Mr. Punch,—l am ' The Wild Horse of the Pampas ' —at least I am the unhappy quadruped that goes by that name; and ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1673 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Facetiœ

... Such silence—let Francis Joseph be assured of it—was at Milan and elsewhere. A Great Chance for the Bloomers.—Jullien opens Drury Lane with a masquerade. A Real Curse to MoTHERs.-Somebody is the habit of advertising some farinaceous stuff as food for infants ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1531 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Our London Correspondent

... mischief that may ensue, when stokers are once permitted to assume the functions of engine-drivers. The promenade concerts at Drury Lane terminate to morrow, after having for the last few weeks attracted their motley thousands. It is curious statistical fact ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 880 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... pantomimes, but it does not appear from their critiques that one was much better than another. In an address at the opening of Drury-lane, Mr. Bunn said : Formerly there used to sit in the orchestra of this theatre foreigner, who played the bassoon. In his ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 6340 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Foreign

... reaches Madrid alive, he will never cross the seas again. Negotiations have been entered into to obtain a performance at Drury Lane Theatre under the most illustrious patronage for the benQfit of the fund for the relief of sufferers by the loss of the ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 12998 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... never pleased us.— Cyrus Bedding. [We believe that Percy was the title of Mrs. Hannah More's tragedy. It was produced at Drury-lane Theatre, but it was stagy, prosy, and passionless, and its public success was very so-so. Hannah More afterwards wrote against ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 6335 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... Murder Drury-lane by Burning.—Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Three Horse Shoes Mdford-lane, London, oh the body of a newly-born female child. Mahoney, an Irish labourer, stated that while going along the passage of 5, Bennett's-place, Drury-lane, his ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 5975 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THEATRICAL TROUBLES.—SONG AND DANCE

... their troubles. On Monday, a French lady, who described herself as having been engaged Dy Jur. Bunn as premiere danseuse at Drury-lane, ana wno produced a contract purporting to confirm her stacement, applied to Mr. Hardwick, at the Marlborough police-court ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION. A. H. ELTON, Esq., OF COURT, THE LIBERAL and FREE TRADE Candidate for East Somerset, ..

... MARQUEE, and TALENTED TROUPE OF AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS, From Ihe Principal Ampitheatre in the United Stales ; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London ; and Biugley Hall, Birmingham ; Will give their really Wonderful Performances at WINCANTON, SATURDAY, JULY 10th ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 892 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Drama, Literary Chit Chat, &c

... vogue as the Norma or the Semiramide. She has played it this week the Royal Italian Opera, with all her original force. Drury Lane, in its extremity, has passed under American management. The legitimate drama has broken down in its native home, and as ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

M. LOUIS BLANG

... hangs round it still; and courts of to find new domiciles, thfi intermod iate Drury lane, Gray was already excesplaci received «JJ anJ diBorderli , . .. street( Drury.lane, for ness. begt under stood as a respectinstance, was wi » m inhB bitcd by a good ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1852
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 5 | Tags: none