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CYMBLINE AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL

... Few modern playgoers know anything about Oymbeline, which has not been performed for many years. Phelps produced it at Sadler's Wells, and it was played at the Queen's Theatre in 1S72, when Miss Henriotta Hodson (Mrs. Labouchoro) rem- scntcd Imogen, which ...

SMALL TALK

... shines for among the profession now occupying the halls a goodly number claim the protection of the Stars and Stripes. Old Sadler's Wells Theatre is going to be turned into a music hall. Heyday it seems to me but yesterday that I was a little boy, walking ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6404 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME OF MISS JENNY HILL'S REMINISCENCES

... That must have been about the same time, or a little later. I well recollect my first two turns.' They were at Deacon's Sadler's Wells it is now and at the Raglan. It was Mr. Deacon who gave me the first pair of tights which I had ever seen. He bought them ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... the pa) was first staged by the club, while previous to that it had not been seen in London since Phelps mounted it at Sadler's Wells in 1853. RONALD ALLAN, WITH FATHER'S HAT ON. Photo by J T. Ilobinson Sunderland. Skating being a thing of the past, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4039 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. ARTHUR WILLIAMS

... various companies through the provinces, where his talents were readily appreciated, and, returning to town, he opened at Sadler's Wells Theatre in a new drama, entitled Light in the Dark, on Easter Monday, 1869. Still better things were in store for him ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 526 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... played it, but some very interesting old playbills which recently came into my possession gave me'the information. At Sadler's Wells, in January, 1848 (eight years after the play was written), Mr. Phelps produced Money, by permission of Sir Edward Bulwer ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3937 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Greenwood comes of an old theatrical stock, her grand father being a partner of the late tragedian, Mr. Samuel Phelps, at Sadler's Wells Theatre in the days of its Shaksperian glories. Like many of our best and most charming actresses, Miss Greenwood has ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5677 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A SEASIDE MEMORY OF A GREAT ACTOR

... he at once engaged Phelps to play Macduff for a lengthened period, and no great time elapsed ere the embryo manager of Sadler's Wells was seen with Macready at Covcnt Garden, where his Macduff created a most favourable impression. During that visit, which ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME FEMALE HAMLETS

... or remote, has appeared so often in the melancholy Dane as Miss Marriott. Pier debut in the part was evidently made at Sadler's Wells, under her own management, on Feb. 22, 18G4. Five years later, when this sterling actress visited America, she elected ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1457 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

TWO TRAVELLED PLAYERS: FREDERIC ROBINSON

... Frederic Charles Patey Robinson. To the older generation of playgoers, whose memories go back to Phelps's management at Sadler's Wells, or even only so far as that of Miss Herbert, at the St. James's, Mr. Robinson-- the new Belarius-- needs no introduction ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE MR. CHARLES WILMOT

... the time of his death, Mr. Wilmot had several other going concerns in hand, and many a visionary venture up his sleeve. Sadler's Wells Theatre was his, or rather, his wife's, for the freehold of the historic histrionic pile was his little present to Mrs ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1893 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

THE VARIETY MANAGERS OF LONDON.-- V.-VIII

... Shoreditcli, where he remained as managing director for seventeen years. Mr.-' Sparrow had previously been connected with Sadler's Wells Theatre and the Alex andra, Highbury, where he occasionally, with no little success, performed as a low- comedian. In ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1075 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs