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Death of a Railway Director. , George Fisher, resident director and of the Taff Vale Railway, died Cardiff ..

... position. -and-thirty years ago he was playing at the upmarket Claude Melnotte to the Pauline of e en Faucit ; and later, at Drury Lane, the Falconer-Chatterton management, he gaged for leading characters in Shake- i s k nown a3 a heavy actor—indeed, his let ...

Published: Monday 04 May 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 417 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Music, the Drama, & Entertainments

... ballet,wasproducedlast night. The Tomboy,is the next in order of the Vaudeville matinees. ' 'Formosa is to be revived at Drury Lane to-night, with Miss Millward in the principal character. Miss Alice Thorne, who very appropriately heads the list of artistes ...

Published: Tuesday 26 May 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THIS DAY'S NEWS

... ACTRESS. Mrs. Langtry's ill-health is the cause of her resignation of the part of Formosa in the revival of Boucicault's drama Drury Lane this week. It is unfortunate for the lady, she will thereby lose a salary of £150 per week larger sum than this has, perhaps ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Cuttings from the Comics

... Cuttings from the Comics. (From Bunch.) Appropriate for the sultry summer weather—The revival of Drink at Drury Lane. It ought to be iced drink. The 'Bus Strike being at an end, the newspapers will discontinue writing Omnibus rebus, and must employ ...

Published: Wednesday 24 June 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1334 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Not in the Monkey House, but in the Sheriffs Court

... proposed to the plaintiff in October, 1889. In a letter written from London the defendant described a visit to Brighton and to Drury Lane Theatre, and proceeded, This afternoon I am going to the Zoo see if there is vacancy for me in the monkey-house. (Laughter ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Chinamen ought to make reliable actors and billiard players, because they always have their queues all right. ..

... you know, but simply the interrogative. The questions quite Harris one, and land one labyrinth, in fact they land one in Drury Lane. Those who use our goods are very much attached to them, is what porous-plaster company advertises. ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

To use vulgar phrase, there will be row about the Birmingham Bishopric yet. The Birmingham Churchmen are not ..

... public-house sign, The Whistling Oyster? And he himself gives the reply. The proprietor of famous establishment near Drury Lane, he says, which used to be frequented by the wits of Mr. Punch's youth, one day distinctly heard a whistling sound coming ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1103 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Jottings from the Capital

... Augustus Harris many years ago, when he was managing pantomime at the Crystal Palace. Wait, said the future autocrat of Drury Lane, till I get to London, and I'll show them what pantomime is. This promise, it is needless to add, has been amply redeemed ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Cuttings from the Comics

... Shouting their hymn under your window was like their hyinn-pudence certainly. A.G.—What's this? If a Sailor's (K)not at Drury Lane, where is he? Why, All at Sea there, of course. Ironmaster. —Surely it's nothing unusual for Forger to Make a Bolt. Ask ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1891
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dun.—The word dun ia generally supposed to come from the French, where donnez (moi) signifies give me, implying a

... the deepest places before me and showed me the way. v Old of .bleak House.—lf you have any business White Hart Street, Drury Lane, Loudon, you will probably make haste, for it is not a desiruble locality. Yet there is reason why you should turn aside ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1892
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Jottings from the Capital

... regiment was severed in the same twenty-four hours. It was great Edinburgh preacher, long ago, who was going into the pit at Drury Lane. A hand was laid on his shoulder, and an awestricken voice said, Oh, Dr. Macgrugar, what would the people in the old kirk ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1892
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

News of the Neighbourhood

... the highest praise accorded it, and the company is one of the best on tour. Mr. John S. Chamberlain, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and other leading London theatres, has been specially engaged to play the part of the Noble Brother. Lord Leigh, presiding ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1892
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 2 | Tags: none