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MEMORIAL TO THE LATE SIR AUGUSTUS HARRIS

... ankmmeft might be allotted for a worthy tribute of respect and esteem. At a meeting on Friday afternoon in Drury Lane theatre of the Drury Lane Lodge of Freemasons, of which Sir A. Harris was one of the founders, Brother Henry iNeville, the Worshipfulb ...

THEATRICAL NOTES

... men can expect to see all the pantomimes in one season. To-day, there is no such diFfi- culty. The. one West-End rival to Drury Lane this Christmas will be Alice in Wonderland at the Vaudeville; while, on the-outer fringe, the signs of activity are few ...

VIRGINIUS

... Dennis's Appius and Virginia was played at Drury Lane in 1709, but with ill-success, although the dramatist had invented for his work a new kind of stage thunder. Garrick appeared as Virginius at Drury Lane in 1754 in a dull tragedy by one Henry Crisp ...

Old Drury, Past and Present

... Pit Court, which was effaced to make room for the model lodging-houses on the east- side of Drury Lane. When Killigrew erected ' The Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane, that now shady thoroughfare was still an aristocratic quarter of the toun, where the Earls ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1893
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2534 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE NEW VIRGINIUS

... THE NEW VIRGINIUS. lHE long promised appearance of Mr. John M'Cullough, the American tragedian, has been made at Drury Lane Theatre, in Sheridan Knowles's drama of Virginius. No small amount of courage is requisite to face, on boards that may still ...

THEATRES

... A,5I IT is customary to regard the re-opening of DRURY LANE Theatre in the autumn as marking the commencement of the theatrical season ; but the custom seems to be more connected with tradition than with anything in the actual condition of dramatic affairs ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1250 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... conditions of theatrical art may be counted the fact that Drury Lane Theatre now opens its doors at a period when it has been accustomed to close them. Taking the years from 1820 to i830 when Drury Lane, then at the height of its reputation, could point to ...

MUSIC

... OARL ROSA OPERA COMPANy, DRURY LANE: THEATRE:.' The brief 8eries of performances of operas in English losed on Saturday night. It was ron I May 31 that Mr. Carl Rosa began his new London season (his fourth occupancy of Drury Lane Theatre'; a specialty having ...

MUSIC

... the best streugth of the Drury Lane staff, but was oven to a greater degree notable for she excellencea of the ensemble. Under Mr. Harris and Signor Maneinelli, the opera has been thoroughly rehearsed, and altogether the Drury Lane performance ot Les ...

THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... THEATRICAL EXAMINER. DRURY LANE. A new grand chivalric entertainment, in two acts, introducing to brilliant and crowded audiences not. only Mr Ducrow and Master Ducrow, Mr Compton, Mr M'Ian, Mr H. Wallack, and Mr Duruset, but the great names of King ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... is endowed with more than the customary spectacular adjuncts that embellish Drury Lane drama. The new piece is unrionbtedly the strongest, from a draniat c point, that Drury Lane has ever seen, and in the diffilclt task of 'going one .better year by year ...

THEATRES

... pantomi that the Christmas entertainment, both at Drury Lane and Covt Garden, is somewhat weak in its opening story, and by no means remarkable for originality of idea in its grand transforma- tions. At Drury Lane Mr. Blanchard's 7ack in the Box is a little ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture