... theatre' prove remunerative. It may not be generally known that what was once regarded OA the home of the British drama, Drury Lane, pays a rental of nearly £l5O a week. When to this is added the in rates, gas, advertising, and salaries, the latter being ...

... William Morgan, was charged at the Police-court with causing the death of a named George Ward. The deceased was employed it Drury-lane Theatre as a painter, and was engaged in some work on portico of the theatre on Friday mnrninc. Ile wee stnnding on • hider ...

... forwarded a few days before Christmas. Among the Christmas annual at the Metropolitan I places of amusement the pantomime at Drury Lane deservedly takes first places as a spectacle. A state. Mont has been mule, but with no degree of authority, that among the ...

... ow • very different principle. About the average number of London theatres have pantomime upon the stage for Christmas, Drury-lane and Her Majesty's being the most Important of the houses with pantomime in the immediate neighbourhood of the Strand and ...

... John Foreman, two youths, were charged with assault and robbery. The prosecutrix, Miss Amelia Distill. was proceeding down Drury-lane, about seven in the evening, towards the Opera Comique, where she is engaged. She was accosted by the two prisoners, and ...

... day. Less then hilf a genenstion ago when Mr. .1. 11. Chatterton was remonstrated with for the production of Formosa at Drury-lane, he replied that Shakeepeare ep It ruin and Byron bankruptcy. The Byron referred to was not Henry J. whom Our Boys ran ...

... wickedness, the punishment for such an offence be severe and deterrent. It is only to imagine a recreation of this kind at Drury-lane on a night when the vast structure is thronged with a pantomime audience, to realise the horror of such a scene and the ...

... possibly occur to the thoughtful and the sentimental, but it is questionable whether this is a class which largely attends Drury-lane or the Surrey when the pantomime occupies the boards. The office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, which was vacated ...

... Show hollow on the boards of Drury Jane. The stage of the Porte St. Martin Theatre has not the same capacities as that of Drury Lane; but M. finniou'n new play neevin to have been' mounted with a splendour which has altogether beggared the crities'stock ...

... large company assembled at Drury-lane Theatre, London, to partake of the refection which has by a gradual process of development, grown out of the Twelfth Cake. with wine and punch, which the ladies and gentlemen of Drury-lane are requested to !Ariake ...

... opera, The Soldier'. Return, which was written in his seventeetith year - words and music being his own —and performed at Drury Lane Theatre with great sueems, a traveller is represented as eurnieg to an • -door and saving to the landlord: Pray, friend ...

... Mr. Wilsou Barrett still continues his much criticised 'Hamlet' at the Princess's. Of the pantomimes, the best is that of Drury-lane, entitled Whittington and his Cat, produced by Mr. Augustus Harris. This is claimed to be one of the grandest ever brought ...