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METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... begin with, talcing exchange the perennial green cover, with its hieroglyphics more astounding, than any in grand crocodile Drury Lane drama of Nitocris, whose reception is causing Manager Mathews to go about with his hands in his breeches pockets, like Mrs ...

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

... appointment, for in one ot ber letters she wrote thus I will be at the corner of the court at tbe usual time. We will goto Drury Lane (Theatre), and I will stop.' All this was no doubt, highly immoral in a married man more especially; but still It did not ...

MR CHARLES MATHEWS AS THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH

... CHARLES MATHEWS AS THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH. At Drury Lane Theatre on Monday night, says the Times, '•a dramatic 'squib' entitled the 'Great Gun-Trick' was let off with success. Mr C. Mathews represents one of those ingenious gentlemen, light in pocket ...

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... to recoguise Lord llarrowby in his robes. The man seems to right out of himself, like Charles Mathews in the Gun i Trick Drury Lane ; but, unlike that most miraculous meta[ psychosis, the peer doesn't turn into anybody else, like Mathews into Anderson ...

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP

... brotlier, Lord John, except little fatter, looked as cozy umler the calamity as did Sheridan, who, during the burning of Drury Lane, drauk a bottle of port in the Piaza Coffee tiouse, saying that every man should relish a glass of wine by his own fireside ...

HOW TO REFORM THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMERS

... constituents whom they would betray as soon as they had taken their soats. hy, at a meeting of this very association at Drury Lane Theatre some time ago, Mr Tite, the member for Bath, avowed his ignorance of politics, and said his studies had been directed ...

Literature

... successful imitations, The Kejected Address, and we have uot forgotten Sir Walter Scott's remark on Horaco Smith's Tale Drury Lane by W. 5., in which these lines occur, 4i What are they feared on ? fools! 'od rot em! Were the last words Higginbotham ...

CURIOUS CASE

... by the friends present. The scene was well got up and sustained, and could not have been better acted in Covent Garden or Drury Lane. The solemnity of the occasion, with Margaret's overflowing tears, were too touching to be withstood. Both Provost and Bailie ...

DEA Til AND MEMOIR OF MADAME VESTRIS. The English stage has just lost one of its brightest stars: the unrivalled

... where he settled a ballet master. Madame Vestris returned to London in 1819, and entered into engagement with Elliston for Drury Lane, where she made her first appearance in English opera, in the character of Lilla, in 41 The Siege of Belgrade. llere she ...

THE SHARE FRAUDS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE-

... plays is The Selfish Man. His most ambitious work, however, is Blanca, a play in five acts, which was under rehearsal Drury Lane up to the time of Robson's flight. The play has been in print for the last two or three months, and it bears the following ...

VARIETIES

... like to have been trepanned in the following manner: —The lady bad appointed to meet a gentlewoman at the old playhouse in Drury lane, but extraordinary business prevented her coming. Being alone, when the play was over, she bade boy call a coach for tbe ...

THE GREAT GOLD DUST ROBBERY IN 1836

... the weight of the gold, and the rest of the >liot was thrown away. We had four leather courier bags made, at the corner of Drury Lane and Great Queen Street. It was a leather seller's. Pierce and I gave the orders for them. We told them that we wanted tiiem ...