... this new speculation, I could not help having some misgivings as to the result when I called to mind what I had done at Drury Lane with such ill-fortune and such hard work. However, it has never been my nature to give in, or weep for spilt milk. Like ...

... actors of other theatres behaved handsomely, giving their houses and services gratuitously for benefits; Covent Garden and Drury Lane funds rnerouslyegave fifty guineas each ; my friends, Whitworth Jones, Horace Clagett, William Sams, Dr. Joy, and \V. Ma; ...

... hails from the United States, where I myself have ever been received with unbounded liberality. September 27th. I opened at Drury Lane Theatre an engagement of three months. This was my first appsarancsk in Macbeth this season. There was a title knee, and ...

... return, Horatio! Edmund }'almoner, the lnrky man who made £16,000 in the Lyceum Theatre, and afterwards became lessee of Drury Lane, was, on March 3rd, a lodger in Whitecross Street Prison on suspicion of debt to the amount of £3,000! We know what we ...

... little allusion to Mr. Phelps, as he played with him during the whole of Mr. Macready's management at Covent Garden and Drury Lane. No one (considering his then position) could have had worse parts than Mr. Phelps at that time. He was, of course, much ...

... getrient which were liver equalled in the past and . never can be excelled in the future.' And again : Take the company at Drury Lane all in all, tell ye, sir, as far as 1 :on qualified to form an opinion, at no period before, or since, nut even in the palmy ...

... Royal, Rakaia, in the Tropic. First appearance of the celebrated tragedian, Mr. James Anderson, from the theatres Royal, Drury Lane, and Covent Garden, who kindly consented to read to-night Sbakspeare's grand tragedy of 'King Lear,' for the benefit of ...

... sited f. anything for herself, was the still popular fee omits, potty, witty, kind-hearted Nell Gwynn. Born in a garret near Drury lane, she was reared in hardship and penury, and when little more than a child sold in the pit the King's Theeme. Her Lesuty ...

... TO TEE WIIOR OF Till Ste,—l quite agree with Mr. Roddam that Mr. Macready's management of Covent Garden and Drury Lane was the brightest page in the history of the English =ln writing of Mr. Phelps's management of ' Wells, 1 ought to have said after ...

... would prove a ventilator. He had his own reasons no doubt for the selection which it was not my province to inquire into. Drury Lane opened for the season on September 26, hut not with the legitimate drama. Mr. Chatterton produced • play by Halliday, taken ...

... that, with an ever-increasing fame, he returned to England, and became, first, lessee of Covent Garden, and afterwards of Drury Lane. Under his management a fresh impulse was givin to music as well as the drama, and the eye was delighted, the ear ravished ...

... exception of his wife (Miss Marriott), an admirable actress, so I declined with thanks. Mr. K T. Smith, who had been lessee of Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and many other London theatres, was now managing Aetley'n Amphitheatre, and was good enough to ask me to ...