... stimulants before singing. Under such a system his style became thoroughly vitiated. During his engage. ments last year both at Drury Lane and at Covent Garden be bad few redeeming moments in the characters be under-took. He sang during the past winter season ...

... was thought hardly likely that hr would be able to return to the work he loved, lie recovered sufficiently to appear in a Drury Lane pantomime. But it was not the dame Dan Leno that had kept London laughing for years. He had worked at high presinro and ...

... average, so that a splendid career is before her if she does not do too much. On the same night the Opera Season commenced at Drury Lane under the management of Mr. Mapleson, when Mdlle. Titiens appeared as Leonora in Fidelio and Signor Bignardi as Flurestan ...

... Directors of the Opera-bouaes were to some extent compensated, we imagine, by His Majesty's visits to Covent Garden and Drury Lane or the losses they sustained ; but the theatres found heir houses thinned by the novel attraction, and pub.. lishers and ...

... their latter end; he took the Marylebone Theatre in Portman Market, and endeavoured to keep the drama alive there. He leased Drury Lane from the Duke of Bedford in 1852, after it had passed through a considerable epoch of depression and after the proprietor ...

... the Bonk. A brother of Sir Henry Careedi(h ) who ha! been a Member of the frith Parliament. had appeared on the Stage at Drury Lane. LONDON.—DEczNIRER s. Sir A. Gardner, with ten vi the line, ordered to the Ira S atior. Eigth hundred Attorni:s had receivel ...

... twenty-three, made his first appearance in London at Covent Garden. It was John Kemble's last season ; Kean was acting at Drury Lane; Young and Charles Kemble at Covent Garden. Macready himself was, as he says, in the first rank, though not yet the first ...

... SOCK AND BUSKIN. THE ELLEN JUBILEE mance at Drury Lane, fixed for the 12th June, is in the nature of a mammoth benefit for the popular actress and should be as memorable as it will be a profitable entertainment. The piece de rgeristance is the second ...

... sad Co. HERZ ii a story of an old pressman who evidently deem. ed himself critic : Joe and some boon companions went to Drury Lane to sec G eoof/o but more ewecially to hen, Drsliam sing The Burial of Sir John Moore. a composition non entirely forgotten ...

... a tenor beginning his career as baritone After studying under Mr. Hobbs and Mr T. Cooke,he joined Maoready's company at Drury Lane as second tenor (1841), and first attracted the attention of the public by his singing of the celebrated war song in Puroell's ...

... other day said, When) these revues are going to end goodness knows. Revue ban taken the two biggest theatres in London Drury Lane and the London Opera House in Kingsaay, and if we go on at this rate nothing but the Crystal Palace or Olympia (both of ...

... York's Theatres, London, who will stage manage and produce. Mr. Lawrence perrickr--The well-known vocalist and actor, late of Drury Lane. Sl•sfterbury and Prince of Walea' Theatres, London, who will take entire control and management of the company and Tivoli ...