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scenic effects by the theatrical painter William Beverley. In his pantomime The Island of jewels of 1849, ..

... from 1852 to 1888 was the author of all the Drury Lane pantomimes. Such productions were particularly associated with Sir Augustus Harris (1852-96), who bestrides the late Victorian pantomime stage at Drury Lane like a colossus. We can catch a glimpse of ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1985
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1748 | Page: 153 | Tags: none

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... fa~ade , and cast iron columns punctuating the internal space. Next door in Drury Lane, the TAYLQR WQQDRQW Art Deco building strikes a cool, CAPITAL DEVELOPMENTS 145 Drury Lane Stylish and highly individual ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT AD ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 880 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

1-THE SINGER, DANCER AND ACTRESS MADAME VESTRIS (1797-1855), AS DON GIOVANNI. Her perfect legs, in the tightest ..

... WYCH STREET, DRURY LANE. little dump of a theatre before Madame Vestris transformed it A dreary J UST after Christmas, January 3, 1831, Madame Vestris opened her first season of burlesque at the Olympic Theatre in Wych Street, Drury Lane. She was a singer ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1985
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1748 | Page: 162 | Tags: none

THEATRE

... laclge had retired she was invited to make a speech at Drury Lane on behalf of some theatrical charity, and I have her own \Yord for it that on the morning of the day appointed she went down to Drury Lane to rehearse. Rehearse ? I asked incredulously. ' ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1931
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1470 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

Hardcastle

... annus mirabilis, of his farce St Patrick 's Day and his comic opera The Duenna, enabled Sheridan to buy Garrick's share in Drury Lane Theatre, where, in 1777, he presented The School for Scandal. Both these theatres closed for the summer, at which point ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

BRING ON BST

... BST, we have no option but to waste electric light and suffer depression from lack of daylight.-jOHl' .J EBORN, Diggens, Drury Lane, Milden, Suffolk. Letters (including a daytime telephone number, please) should be addressed to faxed to 020-7261 5139; ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

Linda Kelly

... were written by the age of 28: the next 30 years of hi life were spent juggling the twin careers of t-. IP and manager of Drury Lane Theatre. But the thi book's upreme virtue is that it hows how the wit, open-heart- edne s and very Irish eloquence which ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: 173 | Tags: none

76 whole country ; in short, the country life of the age and, Some have suffered therefore, of very great

... laclge had retired she was invited to make a speech at Drury Lane on behalf of some theatrical charity, and I have her own \Yord for it that on the morning of the day appointed she went down to Drury Lane to rehearse. Rehearse ? I asked incredulously. ' ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1931
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1915 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

L. G. HAWKINS & CO. LTD

... L. G. HAWKINS & CO. LTD. : DEPT. C.L., DRURY LANE, HASTINGS, SUSSEX ...

Published: Thursday 14 May 1964
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 13 | Page: 90 | Tags: none

3. – THE BEGGAR'S OPERA BURLESQUED, BY HOGARTH

... infant Roscius appeared on Drury Lane stage, and brought Sheridan a welcome flow of money-the period from 1805 to 1809 was probably the most paying in Sheridan's career. The end came with the fire which burnt Drury Lane to the ground on February 24 ...

Published: Thursday 25 December 1952
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2845 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

reproduced in Edmund Kean-Fire From Heaven. (Right) ELLISTON AS FALSTAFF. From Robert William Elliston-Manager. ..

... Theatre), and took over Drury Lane in 1819. The story Mr Fitzsimons tells us of Kean's !if~ is, I think, fairly familiar-the obscurity of his origins, the appalling misery of his early career, his eventual triumph at Drury Lane, powerful performances as ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1976
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2241 | Page: 72 | Tags: none