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LONDON GOSSIP

... Ur Harris will take over Drury Lane scenery, properties, Ac., is now the only S tion to be discussed. Miss Kate Vaughan has been engaged at the !Pr salary she has ever received, rnd at the largmst s5l5ry ever paid at Drury Lane or elsewhere for any artist ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1883
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... London with Mr Augustus Harris's brama and Another Drury Lane Success, be went to Edinburgh, and was introduced to a gentleman who evidently did not catch his name, To put him at his ease, the Drury Lane manager said, I am %ir Harris. He still looked ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1893
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NOTES FROM FLEET STREETS

... well-written monograph on Leicester Square and its quaint history is having a brisk sale. Its success is well merited. The new Drury Lane sporting drama is proving every whit as successful as was anticipated from 4 the first. Sir Augustus Harris, the popular ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1892
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1580 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NOTES FROM FLEET STREET

... ensure success for drama or melodrama it must be catered for artistically and effectively in all its Protean forms. .Old Drury Lane has afforded a wondering public many strikingly exceptionai spectacles, but the scene which Sir AuguwtusHarris will present ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1892
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1578 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FROM TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE

... Austin Friar, I undou, sccivener. Thomas Gibbovns tbe >uuter, Vells near tlet Sea, Norlblk, iner- chant. John Sprigg', Drury Lane, lliddltscx, leather seller. William Germain, Mitth, Somitrsetjeneller.. HVrnv Emett, Man- chester, LaUca4tr r, ictuallIc ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1826
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON CHIT-CHAT

... new melo-drama, A Million of Money, produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, on Saturday, is the joint production of Messrs Pettitt and Harris. It is conventional in style, and of the true Drury Lane type. It is splendidly staged, moves smoothly, and is ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1890
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1564 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE STAGE

... there every dramatic critic slated ic unmercifully and prophesied a disastrous failure. The forthcoming autumn drama at Drury Lane is appropriately named The Great Ruby, as thc play will follow the adventures of a fabulously valuable stone. AAn exciting ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1898
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1637 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MEN OF THE WEEK

... (1738). In 1740, he married Cecilia Young, a vocalist, trained in the Italian Schoel, and for years they were established at Drury Lane Theatre, ne as composer, she as singer. He received the degree of doctor of music from Oxford. Dr Arne is said to be the ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1885
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Local Records and Notes

... in 1671-2, rebuilt by Sir C. Wren, and opened in 1674, and stood till 1741, being the parent of Drury Lane Theatre as it now stands. There is a Drury Lane inL 6Suuderlant, and I believe the old theatre is in st-a sqjuaiid neighbouihood. -J. P. THE AR ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1881
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3513 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTS

... their heads together and decided to do away with the rivalry in Italian opera, they reckoned without the astute lessee of Drury Lane. It is, I hear, by no means improbable that Mr Harris will have a first-class operatic season at the Lane next year ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1881
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1866 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... represented wailing over Drury Lane Here booted gmeoonis usurp -Apolle's glace, - Hofos silamn the boards that Garriel used to grace, y Thi play of limbs succeeds tha playof wit; The stage a stablOyacd, a jockey club the pit. s Now, Drury Lane and Covent Garden ...

Published: Monday 13 October 1884
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1750 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENTS

... and circumstances of its production make it improbable that it will ever be so widely known as the enormous successes of Drury Lane, the Princess's, and the Adelphi. London Pride ' is by no means badly mounted, butthe stage accessories, as is only natural ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1882
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1876 | Page: 2 | Tags: News