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... thinks no sea view like a sea of hends. But whence this pleasing change ? No showman's train Has brought us lions fresh from Drury Lane, No pond'rous elephant to walk the stage, Or tiger train'd to act without a cage Our play-bill boasts to night no stranger's ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... was explained, and they were set at liberty. A ROYAL PUN.-A gentleman in his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex's box at Drury Lane the other night, remarking to the Duke on one of the actresses, observed, that she spoke as if she had no roof to her mouth ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1606 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... the: MR. PRICE AND .-It will be in the re- collection of our readei sequence of two unfa- vourable seasons, Mr. e lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, bcame a bank ne since. That which should have excited ( > as a misfortune was immediately magnifiec )f his creditors ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

. LONDON NEWS

... distinction in this country, has returned to Geneva. It is seriously in contemplation with the proprietors of Covent Garden and Drury Lane to make a very important change, by materially reducing the price of admission to all parts of the two houses, so as, in ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1482 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON NLWS

... letting of Covent-garden Theatre, and a new and plausible scheme is in agitation, viz.—for the same person to hire both Drury- lane and Covent-garden (at a reduced rent of course,) and according to circumstances nightly, to play comedy at the one and tragedy ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2499 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

COUNTRY NEWS. -

... ire, builder and carpenter. BANKRUPTS. George Harrison, Ebury-street, Pimlico, builder. John Henry Davy, Parker-street, Drury-lane, coach wheelwright. George Ware, Cranborne, Dorsetshire, ironmonger. Duncan MacBean, the younger, Liverpool, merchant. Levi ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1758 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

- HOUSE OF COMMONS

... amusement, was about the time of the Count's arrival, expecting by the steam-boat an enormous giant, whom he had engaged for Drury Lane. The exhibitor was as anxious for the ar- rival of his fine animal as were the diplomatists and stock-jobbers for that of ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1904 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

~MISCELLANY

... steel springs, withybwr horses and two postillions, sets out from the Greyhound Inn, Market-place, Bath, and the George Inn, Drury-lane, London, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at seven o'clock in the morning, and arrives at the above inns on the fol- ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4198 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... not the Clergyman alluded to. POVERTY OF JOHN BULL.-Madame Malibran will re- ceive £ 160 for every night's performance at Drury-lane, to which is to be added the ordinary expenses of the house, amounting to upwards of S200 so that Capt. Polhill will be ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2564 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANY. ---41--

... twenty can- didates for the vacant chapel in Vere-street, Oxford-street, which is in the gift of the Crown. The receipts at Drury-Lane on the first night of Kean and Macready appearing together in Othello, amounted tof500. The second night exceeded this sum ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3427 | Page: 4 | Tags: News