... the widow of Mr. Wood, of course the pension he received will be continued to her. For the first time in the history of Drury Lane the morning performances of the pantomime have drawn bigger houses than the evening representations. The great theatre has ...

... followed with representatives of the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music, the Drury Lane Lodge of Freemasons, the Stock Exchange Orchestral Society, the Criterion Smoking Concerts, and the Philharmonic Society ...

... but he soon devoted himself to art, and won considerable local fame as a scene painter in Manchester. He did much work for Drury Lane under the management of Mr. Chatterton ; but of late years he had been somewhat eclipsed by his pupil, Mr. Hawes Craven ...

... Bright, sold at Christie's in the spring, has been presented by the purchaser to the National Portrait Gallery. THE sew Drury-lane melodrama deals with life in old England, and the date is immediately after the escape of Charles 11. from the battle of ...

... r expected to meet him again. Nominally, as the obituary notices have pointed out, he was to the last the author of the Drury-lane Pantomime, but for years music-hall business was introduced into it with which he had nothing to do. He grieved over the ...

... founded on the axiom that honesty is the best policy. This annual gathering of unfortunate inhabitants of the slums of Drury-lane and Seven Dials is sometimes erroneously called the Thieves' Supper. Such a title can be given to it only on ex post ji(eto ...

... tbe posseasion Lady Burdett- CoutU. Tbe programme for tbe approaching Carl Rosa opera season National Theatre in London (Drury Lane) baa been issued. It promises 30 evening and six afternoon representations, and contains not only list of the works to be ...

... Agea Man from a moaaic in the pavement of the cathedral at Siena. The Carl Roea Opera Company, in their brief seaaon at Drury-lane, hare been extremely suoceeaful, fur as the attendances are concerned. Some of the old stock operas have been produced, ...

... rot often been teted within the memory of living pUygorr*. If we “intake the last In London the ttm Air. Chvtterton, *t Drury-lane, juat 1, yearn »«“■ Mlta Wallis was the Cleopatra on that occasion, wad Mr. James Anderson the love-lorn A * °l' l M Chatterton ...

... spite of the little sneer of the Thunderer, th* honour will be popular with all who have ever met the successful manager Drury Lane Theatre, whether in Maeanry, theatrical affairs, charities, or general businees. He is not only downright good fellow but ...

... theatres were after all, therelore, filled, and the greatest of the season's festivals—Venice at Olympia and the pantomime at Drury Lane—could be clearly seen. Of the three causes celebrt* which Live filled our newspapers for weeks past, the Isst is not the ...

... surfeited with festivity. Still, it was * beginning, and the remainder will, uo doubt, make amends. The enterprising magnate af Drury Lane and Covent Garden is understood to have made goodly pile by his opera season, and th> present pantomime appears to have ...