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MDLLE. TITIENS.

... her wonted position at Drury Lane. Mdlle. Titiens’ appearances were relied upon as one of the chief elements of success for the past season at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, upon Mr. Mapleson’s removal there from Drury-lane; but a painful illness compelled ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1877
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 592 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DAVID GARRICK. our last notice arrived at the point in th e history of Garrick when he abandoned the wine

... ‘Rehearsal,’ in which he gave his imitations of actors, Lord Foppington, Johnny the Schoolboy, Duretete, Ac. At the end of the Drury Lane season he appeared for three nights to crowded houses as Richard, Bayes, and Lear. Garrick’s success was now assured, and ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1308 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NITROUS OXIDE GAS

... prove fatal. Dinnbb to th;k Lksskb or Dbubt-lan* Tbiatu.—A complimentary dinner waa given to Ur. Ohatterton, the leasee of Drury-lane Theatre, 'Willis’s Booms, Lord W. Lennox presiding. The dinner waa given to mark the sense of members of the theatrical ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2725 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ON BOARD HOBART PASHA’S FLAGSHIP

... about to appear at the Teatro-Drury-lane, in leading parts in Sbakesperian drama. It will be remembered that stveral journals some short time ago stated that the Baroness was about to undertake fcbe lesseeship of Drury-lane Theatre. This, however, as it ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 6089 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LICHFIELD JUISTE 21, 1878

... sown with annuals, which would give healthy delight to the swarms of children who in. habie the courts sad lanes between Drury-lane and Lincoln’s-inn-fields. Though, he admits, it is great boon to the neighbourhood to be allowed the use of the Temple-gar ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 9718 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TT?E LKJByiELT) M El? Y—FS ID AT, JLW 5, 18T8

... itself, is republished : Garrick Club, Oorent Garden, Not. 28. Dear Sir, —I was stopped the other night the stage door of Drury Lane Theatre by people whom I remember to hare seen at the Lyceum under your reign. This is the first time such affront was ever ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 8700 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES

... simultaneously with the projected new line of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways. Will Mr. Beverly oblige at Drury-lane Theatre with a handsome tableau indicating how he would plan out the City afresh ? apart, there can be no doubt that were ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2688 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1878

... For forty years his name has been before the metropolitan public, first as a youthful and promising actor at St. James’s, Drury-lane, and Oovent Garden, but afterwards an artist of great and versatile abilities, a spirited and successful manager, and an ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1193 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LICHFIELD MEKCUEY—FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879

... tram-cars, the thousands of visitors the places of amusement named above, and the crowds that besieged at night the doors of Drury-lane and other theatres. At the meat-markets also, on Ohristmas-eve, and at all the butchers’ and provifflou-dealers’ shops, ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1879
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3054 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXPOSURE OF A SPIRITUALISTIC SEANCE

... character which she did much to make famous, and when Boucicault and Webster had their historic break, and the one took to Drury-lane whilst the other went to the Adelphi, Webster gave Mrs. Wood an exceedingly handsome offer of engagement which, however ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1879
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3039 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

... an eleph-ant. Two countrymen, who had never seen a play in their lives, nor had any notion of it, went to the theatre in Drury-lane, when they placed themselves snug in the corner of the middle gallery. The first music played, which they liked well enough; ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1679 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FACTS AND SCRAPS

... Prior, special artist of the Illustrated London News, was also a passenger on board. The strike among the performers at the Drury Lane, which brought the pantomime to a premature close, was quickly followed by the announcement of tie bankruptcy of Mr. Chatterton ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2138 | Page: 6 | Tags: none