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THE THEATRES

... rather tedious. There is besides a certain want of cohesion, and the did- ferent scenes, which are almost as numerous as in a Drury Lane melodrama, seem to follow one another in a more or less haphazard sort of way. Notwithstanding, the piece is interesting ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... suburban houses the work of preparation is just now at its busiest. In London proper, or at anyrate as to the West End, Drury Lane has the monopoly-a state of things which would tend to suggest that the' demand for pantomime on the part of the children ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... prolific composer of church and other music. The projected repetition of Mascagni's Caval- leria Rusticana in English at Drury Lane for the final performance of the opera season last night -was ;vithdrawn, and owing to a family bereavement the house was ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... his debut at Drury Lane to-morrow as Vir- gfinis. Miss Lydia Cowel iwill play Virg.ini, Air Barnes Appies Claudfis, Mr Ryder Dentaitus, Mr Augustu Harris Juiias, and Mrs Stirling Ser-ia, The World was played for the last time at Drury Lane last night ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... which Mr Richard Mansfield won such great success in the United States. Bat the most important novelty will be Mr Hamilton's Drury Lane melodrama, which will ,be given in about three weeks' time. It will be upon the subject of the Spanish Armada, but as both ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... of Clarkson Stanfield, and in 1851. was appointed chief scenic artist at both ! Covent Garden and Drury Lane. He painted I. I for nearly every Drury Lane pantomime down a to last year, and many miles of his canvases are ' etored up in the theatre, from ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... hereditary. L Grand Dake of Saxe Meiningen, entre- preneur of the famous dramatic troupe which three or four years ago, at Drury Lane, almost revolutionised our stage Lmanagement of crowds. Prince Edward of, Saxe Weimar, an Indian Prince, the president of ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... the London i orchestral rehearsals Will begin a fortnight I hence. I At a meeting of the renters of the Theatre- Royal, Drury Lane. on Thursday, a dividend of 2 per cent.. (;CIO on each £500 stock) w;'s declared, and tihe fact was elicited that the ¶ ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... truth s in the report that Mr Mapleson has taken either Covent Garden or Drury Lane. ?? sort of negotiations have been - opened as to the former house, while as to 1 Drury Lane, Mir Augustus Harris has merely j received a letter from Mr Mapleson asking ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... an act or two of one of the operas of Balfe or Wallace. Since, however, the collapse at Her Majesty's a few years since, Drury Lane has practically had a monopoly of this form of entertainment, so far at anyrate as the West-End theatres are concerned. ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... iven withI much success by Daly's Comspany in Sir Augustus Harris returned to London ve-sterdav for the last night of tlme Drury Lane parntomime. hien lie wvas presented by the CompnsuY withl a chronometer wvatch. WTlhile lie was in Germanly, Sir AugustnaS ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... of the production of the Drury Lane drama Cheer Boys, Cheer, to the 19tlh. This date, however, likewise clashes with the opening of the Duke of York's Theatre| with Mr Walter Frith's new play Her Advo- cate. The Drury Lane drama is, of course, of ...