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OUR LONDON LETTF.R. [IWO Our Special Oarrerpondest.] Ever since Mr. Lloyd George introduced his Budget it has ..

... comes to the conclusion that to act fully up to the part of • Society idol is a much more fearsome business. I remember a Drury Lane pantomime years ago, in which poor Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell, anticipating events, went sailing over London in an airship ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1909
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... profession. Sir Norman Lockyer, the astronomer, began hia career as a clerk in tho War Office. Mr. Arthur Collins, manager of Drury Lane Theatre, is a clever scenic artist. • • . Sir John Gorst is one of the few persons in England who have mastered the Maori ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1908
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EPITOME. OE. UM Three hundred and fifty Dartmoor ponies were sold at the annual sale qt Qkehaniptott. Twelve ..

... Willis to a *cameo MI the Southwark County-court. Madame D'Auban, the dancing mistress and Mother of Mr:John trAuban; the Drury Lane stage manager, has died at Staines in her venty:firktt year. Arising out of the recent strike on the North-Eastern Railway; ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1184 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TOWN TOPICS

... February. Preparations for Christmas are proceeding apace, and rehearsals are the order of the day at the West-end theatres. At Drury-lane several innovations will be introduced into the pantomime. One of these is that crowds of Er/Legorgeously dressed people ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1266 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ZingtonTi° buirrfistr

... Months, 15s; Month& 6d ; 3 Months, is 9d ; Pods lTs id tor TIPIIVO ; Part India P. 0.0. be made poyablo at the Post 42, Drury Lane. Loudon, to W. Richards. Cheque. should be crowed Drummond. TM:ORAN= ADM= OARDCHRON, LONDON. OrTICE :-41, STREET, STRAND ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

learyelbarpast althisaatiore—judife. semester. sogisimele—k new build at the Domination .4 the Crews, Peeekowly ..

... Why, the play, to Iv' sure, repl6.l he, how far is it from hen!' It all del.. tle, - I said, whether you would prefer Drury Lane or Covent Misalen, the Haymarket or the Lyceum, the Gaiety or the Globe, the Holborn or the St. .1 alum's, the Olympic ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1874
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1251 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A GREAT MUSICIAN

... attention by the production at ' the Royal Opera House, Lyceum, of his Devil's Opera. Twoyears later, in 1840, he produced at Drury-lane An Emblematical Tribute on the Queen's marriage, of which little seems to be known beyond tbe fact that it was composed ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1887
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE STANDARD GENTLEMAN

... be given at the Aldwych Theatre before the production of each new work during his present opera and ballet season at the Drury Lane Theatre. Losing control of a motor-cycle he was driving''at LNottieghatit, Knight, a master plumber. aged thirty-two, wad ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1914
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1187 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RICHARD BROWN NOW SHOWING

... theatre. The Mikado, at the Savoy, is a complete slimes, as most. of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan a undertakings are. Drury Lane is at present occupied by the Carl Rosa Opera Com- That a hundred thousand persons should have gone to the Inventjons Exhibition ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1885
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1280 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WIGTON ADVERTISER 6-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1895. NEWS NOTES

... connection with the recent disastrous explosion off the London Strand, is due to John Pearce, lime-light operator at the Drury Lane Theatre, who rendered most important help during the search operations by fetching his lantern from the theatre and lighting ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1895
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1213 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Out ftrubon rtspouttet. fl rlzht to otss4l t or t ot dl with l'orwapototroV. lvtuiuskaj affection of the throat ..

... Mr. G. It. Sims's melodrama, The Last Chance. After a short but successful run, A True Story has been withdrawn from Drury Lane, and Mr. Charles Reade's well-known It's Never Too Late to Mend will take its place, with Mr. Charles Warner in his usual ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1885
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Supplements

... Postage, 17s. Gd. for Twelve Months, Post Free. India and China, HI, Gd. P. 0.0. to be made payable at the Po•t Office, 42, DRURY LANE, London, to W. Richards . Chsques should be crossed Telegraphic Address : GARDCHRON, LONDON. OFFICE:-41, WELLINGTON STREET ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 1 | Tags: none