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LIVERPOOL PANTOMIMES

... pantomime at -this g a theatre is fixed for Friday next. Mr. Arthur c Sturgess, the author of La Poupde and the last h i few Drury-lane pantomimes, has written The u House that Jack Built speciallv for the Empire b I Theatre. The story has been worked out ...

Published: Monday 20 December 1897
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1836 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... person who re- moved any fixtures liable to be indicted for a felony. The total lose already incurred by Captain Polhillat Drury- lane Theatre has beqn calculated to amount to £25,000. if Ireland contains 20.399,608 statute acres; its value is In £T2,715 ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1833
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1948 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... other eminent names. He W rote i' The Blot on the Scatcheon wben he twa 30 vears of age. Macready, who had just Ctikei Drury Lane Theatre under his nanage- nent, was desirous of making his reign bril- ln., and he asked Browning to furnish him with a ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1893
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1945 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Local and District

... first acquaintance with a London audience at the Adelphi, as Duke Arauza, in TThe Bonymoon, and afterwards he played at Drury Lane and at intervals in the Manchester theatres. In 1866 Mr. Cortis appeared at the Prince's, with Miss Kate Terry in Bouoiault's ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1885
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1845 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LONDON GOSSIP

... Napoleon I. Douglas Jerrold has graphically depicted the scene in his Prisoner of War-- piece which had a long run in Drury Lane Theatre in 1842, under the masnagemrent of Mr. Macready. The fortress of Bitsehe, or Biehe, now so prominent a point 4appui ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1963 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SOCIETY AND THE STAGE

... actress has delivered a recitation in charac- ter, and with scenic surroundings. In the course of a benefit performance at Drury Lane within the past year or two, Mrs. Kendal recited a piece by Mr. G. Pa. Sims, with a more or less elaborate scenic back- ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1890
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1827 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... he will ever again be able to appear upon the stage. Mir. F. B. Chatterton has, therefore, kindly offered the free use of Drury Lane Theatre for the purpose of a benefit to be given on a day hereafter to he named. Walter John Plunkett Wade, a-tutor, living ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1876
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1750 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NOTES OF THE DAY

... question, the million are not, and they are the supporters of the theatres. The chief event of the w ie k is the production at Drury Lane of Mr. Halliday's version of SCott's Lady of theLake. As a spectacle it is worth seeing. On Saturday we are to have ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1872
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1810 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PARNELL COMMISSION

... describes himself as a shoemaker, aged 30, residing at 86, Long Acre, and Lane, who is also a shoemaker, and resides at 164, Drury Lane, are witnesses for the Times in the Parnell inquiry. They have been attend- inu the sittings of the Commission daily, and ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1786 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR ILLUSTRATED LETTER

... Proverbially blind, the Bat did not expect to get the Shine taken out of it. We are promised a very realistic drama at Drury Lane in September. The scene will be the Sad Soudan, and it is whispered that a Camel Corps will tread the histrionic boards ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1885
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1745 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MR. AND MRS. CHARLES CALVERT'S FAREWELL

... sway. are some doubtless here to-night who have a recol- re locoi of what Macreadv did as director of the patent tu bA*N, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. That gif ted man t : *o predecessor in management whose example was t | illY of copy; but, with a devoted ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1676 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE BYRON CONTROVERSY

... tlsoughts which a life of such embarrass- . rlet brought with it was in those avocations which I boisdaty, as a member of the Drury Lane committee, 1 iseosoil uplson him, and here, in this most aumluky t smnection with the theatre, one of the fatalities of ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1869
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 5 | Tags: News