... study of Grimaldi, who was contemporary HARRY PAYNE. with his father, and of whose 'style he was an ex- cellent imita- tor. Drury Lane panto- mime without Payne, after these many years, wiii seem as though want- ing the finish- ing touch. When the new clown ...

... that acoom- plished come- dionne, has an exquisite part in it. The prepara- tions for the pantomime pro- ceed apace at Drury Lane, and those who have been enchanted with Mr Oscar Barrett's pretty conceits at too Lyceum and the Crystal Palaoe need not ...

... two months the sceptre of the Merry Monarch will be wielded upon the stages of at least a dozen Metropolitan theatres. The Drury Lane production is of the usual colossal order, in which, not for the first time, glass plays a very prominent part. The people ...

... however, given strict orders that the attendants in the front of his house are to receive no donations and if the habitues of Drury Lane only second the manager's efforts, the system, which is not only unfair, but irritating as well, will speedily come to an ...

... course of her speech she struck a pathetic chord by reference to the gallery boys and girls who were the first to enter Drury Lane Theatre on the—to her—never-to-be- forgotten benefit night, at considerable cost to themselves. May you always be as kind ...

... hope'that his work may stage sufficiently well to make it acceptable to the somewhat exigent audiences it will have to face. Drury Lane is having a wonderful season. ...

... surpassed all that (has ever been doneibefore, certainly the in- terest of the public in them shows no abate- meat. Natur- ally Drury Lane with enor- mous spectacle takes the lead among pnu-uiuime producers, and the deft brain of Oscar Barrett is visible from ...

... demejodised j version of •' Car- men by that skillful adaptor, Mr IIenry Hamilton, who has been respon- sible for more than one Drury Lane drama. This piece has been a great suc- cess in Alaerioft, and at the Uaiety is sure to he a draw. ...

... family with an origin lost in the mists of Lithuania. There has been n. good deal of talk about another opera company at Drury Lane, and the enterprise is at the MR MAURICE GRAU. moment of writing still within the realms of 'possi- bility. But Mr Collins ...

... which has fallen upon her. It has beeu stated tha.t she was, until her ace, a. burl esq ui actress, and was engaged in the Drury Lane pantomime two years ago. I have sven her photegraph, taken in her magmfioent stage costume, and a. most imposing figure ...

... West- minster-hall frontage until it fell in a storm into Old Palace Yard. Picked up by a soldier, it was passed on to a Drury Lane actor, who parted with it for a consideration to a member for Lambeth, through whom it has descended to Mr Wilkinson. There ...

... about the only playhouses whose shutters were not up. To-day there are new pieces at Her Majesty's, the Strand, the Adelphi, Drury Lane, the Shaftes- bury, Comedy, and the Globe, while at the Lyceum Forbes Robertson is to be seen in Hamlet, and Offenbach's ...