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... MUSICAL NOTES. SUBURBAN opera-goers who happened to be at Drury. lane on Monday appeared delighted by the early hour at which Hansel and Gretel ended. It commenced precisely at eight, and the performance was carried along so briskly, and the intervals ...
... Oliver are to be congratulated upon having engaged for their theatre Mr Henry Neville and a powerful company in the popular Drury- lane drama Cheer, Boys, Cheer, On Monday and suc- ceeding evenings the play was received with the utmost enthusiasm evoked by ...
... were the Blackfriars, White- friars, Salisbury-court, Rose, Hope. Swan, Newington, Red Bull, and Cockpit or Phoenix, in Drury- lane. Various other places were utilised for theatrical representations, among them the Inn Yard of the Bel Savage, where, according ...
... Benjasmin Webster was really seen upon the stage for the last time when he appeared for the memorable Comptoa benefit, at Drury- lane Theatre, on the morning of March 1st, 1877. On this occasion he represented his original character of Graves, in the first ...
... who depart this day by the Canada steamer from Liverpool. Among them we may mention Mr. W. Davidge, of the Theatre Royal, Drury lane, who goes out as leading old man ; Mr. Scbarf, from Sadler's Wells, who has earned the sobriquet of The Shaksperian ...
... reopen on Easter Monday withi The Rocket, the farcical comedy, by A. W. Pinoro. MISS VIOLET ELLICOTT has been out of the Drury- lane pantomime for a fortnight owing to severe illness, and is still unable to appear. -Mliss Mary Webb, the original provincial ...
... circunmstances which attended it, was a play called Virgiria. Its author was Samuel Crisp, and since its production at Drury- lane on the night of Feb. 25th, 1754, it has (deservedly) been forgotten. Apart from the delusion that he was a dramatist, Crisp ...
... at the part. Sean had played the crazy King at Drury- lane in 1820; Booth had done so in the same year at Covent-garden; Kemble, with Mrs Siddons as Cordelia, had appeared in the tragedy at Drury-lane in 1788 ;. Barry and Garrick had vied with each other ...
... theatre, be more than mentioned. Just beyond the limit of living recollec- tion is John Kemble's performance of the part at Drury- lane in 1785; and passing over the appearances of Cooper, Young, and Elliston, we come to Edmund Kean's Othello of 1814. Kean ...
... Harvey and Conolly) died yesterday. As a well-known clown he will be remem- bered by an older generation of playgoers at Drury- lane, where he was retained for seven seasons. For the last twenty-one years he has given sketches and entertainments at the ...
... SOIJDANESE EXHIBITION AT DRURY-LANE. Those invited to Drury-lane Theatre on Thursday afternoon last found the Grand Saloon transformed' into a most picturesque museum of curiosities. The walls were literally covered with trophies, artistically arranged ...
... same day for the Isle of Man. MISS PATTIE HEYWOOD, one of the most piquante serio-comics on the variety boards, goes to Drury-lane Theatre at Christmas. Miss Heywood, like Mr Dan Leno, made her first London pantomimic success at the Surrey, which may ...