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GLEANINGS

... of Idicuamond. Terrace and Breck B-ad, -ver - Nicholas Nickleby ' and four live coach-orscs are drawing good houses at Sadler's Wells. tor !r Saqueers, and his amiable-dauglhter Fanny make upL O u A act well. The first vessel of the new Haniburg and EmlaiL ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1888
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2144 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... the only lessee in London-for Mr. Harris is hardly an exception-who also provides his own druesta. When Phelps was at Sadler's Wells he was once asked why bhe did not write a play for himself. His reply was that he was too busy writing orders. I The Empress ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1888
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2195 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

UNVEILING OF THE GOWER MEMORIAL AT STRATFORD

... they should remem- ber what Macready did at Covent Garden, what Charles SKean did at the Princess's, what PheJps did at Sadlers' - Wells; and they should remember that before him there were artists who fully understood their Shakspeare and helped to interpret ...

MR. TOOLE'S REMINISCENCES

... down I wrote him a letter in the hall, badly spelt. in which I informed him that I had seen him play certain parts at Sadler's Wells-a more or less ignorant burlesque kind of letter-and that, if he was not inclined to play for my benefit, would he spare ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1888
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1986 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE POPE AND THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S VISIT

... Official iReceiver's report at the London Courtof Bankruptcy yesterday, in the case of\J. Arnold Cave, formerly lessee of Sadler's Wells Theatre,: and pre. viously of the E lepbant and Castle Theatre. The debtor, who had for thirty years been engaged in the ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1888
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE COUNTY COUNCILS

... for the official raceiver, Mr. Abrahams for the bankrupt-The bankrupt, in reply to Mr. Howell, stated that he took the Sadler's W~ells Theatre in 1857. le had been engaged in the theatrical pro- fession for over thirty years. Wlhen 1e took the theatre he ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1888
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2164 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MURK OPINIONS FROM MRS. KENDAL

... excellent anecdote told of Macready and Samuel Phelt*. Macroady was acting at Drury Lane in the West rind, and Phelps at Sadler's Wells in the Mast Macready wrote » letter something like the following: 44 My dear Phelps -Why not come the West a great actor ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1626 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GLEANINGS

... discovered. Miss Annie Rose (Mrs. Horace Nevill) will shortly piny .lulwi .it matinee. Mi.« Virginia Blackwood will appear at Sadler's Wells in '* Lost in Ix>nd ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1841 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... Ball Sir Peter, admirable actor, whose successes, if we mistake not, date as far back the famous Phelps management of Sadler's Wells. A good proof of the sterling worth of these practised performers was afforded last night when, in the middle of the famous ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1889
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 913 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHAKSPEARE ANNIVERSARY

... Chair- mapd moved the adoption of the reports and accounts, referring in detail to most of the items. With the exception of Sadler's Wells, he believed no other theatre in England had produced twenty-two of Shakespeare's plays, and within the comparatively ...

Published: Thursday 24 April 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5363 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... Charles WVilmot, lessee of the Grand Theatre at Islington, and will be conducted in conjunction with that establish- ment. Sadler's Wells is to be re-embellished and opened at Whitsuntide. Dr. Arthur Julius Polloclk, M.D., ?? senior physician of Charing Cross ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2092 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... Strand will open next Saturday, with a brilliant and attractive company of artists. Mlessrs. Wilmot and Freeman have taken Sadler's Wells, to open in August with The Shadows of a Great City. M'essrs. Sims and Pettitt have scored another success it, Aimerica ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1916 | Page: 7 | Tags: News