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SATURDAY, JULY 15, lbb2

... “Regency” Theatre fa Tottenham-stroet, now well-known the Prince Wales’s. May, 1824, its held subordinate position in the great Drury, lane company, and illness which overtook Mr. Hnrley gave him the chance of appearing few hours’ notice to Shakspcare’s play of ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1882
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2199 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FRENCH WAR PREPARATIONS,

... rental of £6.500 year. This probably the largest rent brought by any London theatre. Mr. Augustus Harris pays £6,000 year for Drury Lane ; the rent the Vaulevil e is £2.100, which is pretty well for so small place ; an-1 ttie original rent of the Gaiety was ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1886
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2236 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE

... years.” Mr. Augustus Harris has presented the whole of his collection of playbills, pamphlets, and printed matter relating Drury Lane Theatre to the British Museum. (From Truth.) The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are staying at Sandringham with their ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1888
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2174 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TWO FAMOUS ACTRESSES

... Imogen to Fair Star and Maria Darlington, Both ladies passed Drury-lane, and ended at the Olympic. One made some noise in the world, and Covent Garden admirers applauded her, while those of Drury Lane were hissing Edmund Kean for the same sort of not very exemplary ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1868
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2116 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HATCHAU CASE

... motives. He did not think had ever been more than half dozen times In London theatre in his life, hot remembered being in Drury Lane and seeing Mameady and Helen Faucit play in Othello, and was very much the better man lor It. It might be said by some of ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1877
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2088 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... visitors at the Grand Uotol. Mr Harris, the British Consul . at Nice, seems to be as energetic a personage his namesake of Drury Lane and the City , of London. It would almost seem if there were a race between the two for the envied . prolix Sir. ’ I There ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1891
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2093 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, DKCEMBER 31, 1887

... are real, and which are false ; if the velvet in the dresses is silk, and if the lace is dear or cheap. For these people Drury Lane just now is not the place go. Mr. Broadley kindly took a party of ladies behind the scenes the last rehearsal day, and allowed ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1887
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 4646 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES

... students might be roughly handled. Some fifty years ago private dissecting-room was discovered in Wild-street, leading out Drury lane, and frightful riot ensued, in which the medicals barely escaped with their lives. Mr. B. L. Faejkon, who no longer publishes ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1880
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2471 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WEEK

... one of his regular attendants, dear, I think your friend belongs Church of England.’ There were two new features in the Drury Lane performance. One was the extraordinary free use of “sets in the scenery, the parts of which so cleverly dovetailed into ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1885
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2392 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A TELEPHONE FRAUD

... Taunton 7.56 ** U. 30 o.oj Times correspondent fears that Sir C. Bernard has for hall hour. Herv B Frlvoh But at Drury Lane a. 8.45 3.2 9.36 taken altogether too sanguine a view of the condition sijecracle is ! All of women think ourselves ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1886
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 7429 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE

... cheap clap-trap. a critic has pointed out, the reference delights one section of the audience it disgusts the other. In the Drury Lane performance, figure is shown made np as Mr. Gladstone. There is the Grand Old Man shirt sleeves and exaggerated collar, ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2621 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE

... the employment children under ten years aife in panto [Dimes f What is to become the front row of the children’s ballet Drury Lane bins Christmas * Ever}' year Madame Katti banner gives the most delightful little band jf infants who, though they look ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1886
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2498 | Page: 6 | Tags: none