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A CHRISTMAS EVE

... Christmas Number. Tas lisaLzquiff.—The harlequin of to-day was the creation of an actor named Byrne, lio was playing at Drury Lane in 1800, and appeared in a tight-fitting costume of white silk, covered with red and black patches. This costume was entered ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1903
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT WORM SCHEME

... is spending twenty millions of public money. Robert Baddeley, the founder of the Twelfth Night feast of cake and wine at Drury Lane, was a well-known comedian of Old Drury. lie was the original Moses of The School for Scandal. In his day actors were ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1912
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3418 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STARVATION DE A THS

... municipal theatre was to his mind nearly within the reach of practical politics. Mr. Arthur Collins. managing director of Drury Lane Theatre, has intimated his willingness. in reply to a communication from Captain J. T. Potter, of the Rutrollt Regimental ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1907
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... Honey's part, and Mr Howe that with which Mr W. H. Stephen's name is associated.— They are actively rehearsing Youth at Drury Lane. The three great effects In this Immense drama will be a departure of troops from Portsmouth, a revolt in a convict prison ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1881
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

oepted an invitation to spend a week at the Duke of Rutlana's shooting-box ou the moors near Sheffield, where there

... nnmber having been so greatly increased of late years. Among forthcoming arrange meats is the revival of Army Robsart at Drury Lane, pending the production of Mr Halliday' Richard Cosur-de-Lion (adapted from Scott's Talisman), and supersession of ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1874
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1527 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Corrtsponbetut

... House good, in Leicester Square. The auditorium is to hold three thousand persons, and the stage will be larger than that of Drury Lane. There is also to be a covered fascade capsble of sheltering a thousand people, and this will be laid out with plants and ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1869
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1561 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GRANNY'S OMNIBUS RIDE

... London, for though had been brought op in it, 1 knew nothing about it, and the first night said would take to the play. *• Drury Lane meant to go to, and could get within walk of it, by one of conveyances which every one was talking about. passed the door ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1876
Newspaper: Ulster Gazette
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3108 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ARMAGH GUARDIAN, FRIDAY AUGUST 15, 1856

... the opera, went to Paris, and played therefor several seasons in French tragedy. She returned to London in 1819, appeared Drury Lane, in Giovanni, London, a burlesque of the famous opera of Don Giovanni, then just produced, and in that piece created one ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1856
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3468 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

.TTJRDAY, DECEMBER, 429, 1

... •s much as tl rivalry between the too West-)6 log Of course the Vokeses are a draw ; but then so is Mis Miss F Storey at Drury Lane wholesomely apparent the feet been mainly had to the legitim to the mnsio-ball,for special pal It is ' Cinderella' at ' ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1883
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3167 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ENGLISH MAMMON WORSHIP

... Turlc, &c. Perhaps the most amusing piart of the varied entertainment was the group announced the Christom’s Minitures, from Drury Lane, London,” and characteristically described as spontaneous company,” the ebony characters including Miss Dirndl Kelly, Mr ...

Published: Friday 25 May 1866
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1506 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

wb•.e. 1 fweed et heals. Ile had been net all day, hnd sorts of to 01.t.i •motes aloe perpotr..tnre of

... Miss Risley ohonld he hissed and Mos hell all plauded. ibis quarrel can only he compared to the famous 0.P. riots at Drury Lane. SI.4AULAR A FA Mint —ln • ternoer, 1870. Menem. Jon. Round S• n l, silver-plate's, She found themselves in d.ffi•vu.ea ...

MUSIC IN THE SCHOOL

... given at the Aldwych Theatre before t h e production of each new work during his prevent opera and ballet season at the Drury Lane Theatre. Losing control of a motor-cycle he was driving at Nottingham. William Knight, a master plumber. aged thirty-two ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1914
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1713 | Page: 2 | Tags: none