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HERE AND THERE

... Mr. Trimble embodies the very spirit of Bedford-row, and though I fancy I have met Mr. Junes before (I think it was on Drury Lane stage, when he had a hook to his nose), I am pleased to renew my acquaintance with so smart a rogue. Those who begin to ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2796 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LINEN IN GERMANY

... entertaining in his grief as in his joy. The present dress of harlequin dates from 1800, when Mr. James Byrne appeared at Drury Lane in a white silk shape, fitting without a wrinkle, into which coloured silk patches were uoven, so that the whole dress, ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1408 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

– _ . •r • . _ _ • HERE AND THERE

... awhile. So Chatterton has gone at last. I don't mean the glorious boy, but Mr. Frederick Chatterton, formerly manager of Drury Lane Theatre. For thirteen years Mr. Chatterton conducted what his successor fondly calls the National Theatre nearer and nearer ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2589 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BITS FROM BOOKS

... And it is on record that a Kentish yoeman, bringing his family to town for the purpose of seeing The Doge of Venice at Drury Lane, and recognising a familar voice and manner in the prominent by a oe s to l uo n dt i a s l h r, d l ryn t i ia.um e xcl ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... ar k er - street, 12 mouths. The object of the defendants whenever he Guibourgere, of the 84th Regiment of the Line, and Drury-lane, with a knife in his band, and as he passed beard was to urge the Government and local :M. Noetinger, of the Bth Cuirassiers ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1961 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AVENGING A WOMAN'S WRONGS

... The management of the Grand Theatre had issued placards to the unemplo3ed, offering work to 200 men to appear in the Drury Lane Drama human Nature. This offer resulted in the stage-door of the theatre being besieged by a large mob. Some of the theatre ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1644 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TIIE SOCIETY PAPERS

... ito - at the Princess's. The date forth. production is as yet unfixed. Preparations for the next year's pantomime at the Drury Lane Theatre are already far advanced, and the scenes which are to celebrate the glories of the Victorian era, in honour of the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(From .the .StlSlephen'v Review.)

... to a . suspicion that his lordship had been dining not wisely but too well. While passing one of the courts which lead to Drury-lane, a court well • known as one of the haunts of the fraternity of the great unwashed, a stalwart looking sweep purposely made ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

I MAD ANARCHIST

... and early manhood, led the lecturer to the night in January, ISM, when Kean achieved his first gmat success as nhylock, at Drury-lane. The fascination of his manner led Mr. Irving to conclude that Kean was the greatest genius our has ever Peen. Coleridge ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 722 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LADIES' COLUMN

... Exhibition, and our colonial friends are still here in great numbers. The dramatic event of the week was the preelection at Drury Lane, of Hervg's new cemie opera Frivoli, the Fnglish libietto having been written by Mr. Beatty Kingston. The popular composer ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1688 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE

... third act was very properly encored. The mounting of the play is brilliant—Mr. Harris would not be the guiding spirit at Drury Lane if it were otherwise. By the way, I duly forewarn my readers of the new pantomime, which is to be the Forty Thieves, ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2700 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... Irving and Miss Terry have gone for a holiday; Frivoli, which is one of Gus. Harris's few failures, is withdrawn from Drury Lane; and Wilson Barrett goes to America. The last is the most interesting item. How will the Americans regard him? As between ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1886
Newspaper: Blandford Weekly News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1382 | Page: 2 | Tags: none