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NORTHERN DANCE TUNES

... a simple melody, was composed by Thomas Lamb. a local musician of somne repute about five and thirty years ago, and was named after the eele- brated race-horse who won both the Derby and the Leger in the y'ar 16V. The Flying Dutchman' was the property ...

CHILDREN'S HOUR

... month was named after him ? r Another month was named for the god of :h war. What wvas his name and which month ;hwas named after him' May was named e, after Mala, a goddess who was the mother of d the god Mercury, and June was named after y Jupiter's ...

BEFORE THE TOY SHOP WINDOW

... known the light of day, Some sixty years. It's this way, sir: 'About thirty years ago I had a little baby home named Joe- Named after me- For Joe's mamma afore she came to die As- me to name him that a: way, and I Just did, you see. Small Joe-well, he was ...

ROYAL NAVAL EXHIBITION

... powerf' will- attract much notice; Turning to the left an Arctic panorama will meet the eye'; then the Vincent kal]ery named after -the celebrated admiral, -and de- voted to a display of ordnance. Amongst the exhibits of Sir William Armstrong and Co. ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... complications with which the story is studded by mistaking a proposal for his daughter's hand for an offer to buy a yacht named after her. The impereona. fion was from the first an excellent study of humble riverside life, and so it remains, Miss Sophie ...

Art and Literature

... ease. The Queen Reg'nt of Spain is a seilful emrbroideror. an! has jubt eompleted a maotificent flag for a new ironclad named after her. 3 he standeurd is over eleven yards long and SiX aud ?? wide. At one of the small ?? itres in Paris a series of tableaux ...

MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

... are on pan the point of completion. Anmuoical scholarship to itor one year) in the South Wales University libs College, named after Dr. Joseph Parry, is to be tuti ?? to the WVe]sh tenor under 23 years of age -eho satisfies the adjudicators in readinz ...

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... other arrangements.. The' oratorio is based on incidents in the life of Elisha, and would more app~opriately have been named 'after that prophet, instead of' the Assyrian captain, who occupies but a subordinate'platein the scheme. Those who-have heard-it ...

VARIETIES

... boy, when are you off?' 'Next week.' 'going to take your wife with you?' ' No; it is a voyage of pleasure.' 'Who are you named after, my boy ? a bright little fellow of seven years was asked. 'My father, sir only I have not his last name.'-' How is that ...

FINE ARTS

... public, upon theology, chemistry, historical anti- quities, ancient poetry, natural history, and travel. This society, named after Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (more than 200 years ago au enlightened amateur), is formed to promote the study of rare ...

TOOLE'S THEATRE

... which the macbi nations of the mesmerising lady ar thwarted ineffm tually by a malch-maing mother, whose Eix daughta are named after the days of the week, sad finally foil by the artless attrachons of a village girl, MIs Men iMaybud, who in the end wins ...

FOOTLIGHTS DRAMATIC COMPANY

... should be made for the escape of heated and impure air at the apex of the roof. Otherwise, the building, which has been named after the nom-de-sport of Mr J. Blundell Maple, M.P., is well suited to the purpose of dramatic performances. THROAT IRRITNTION ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1889
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture