... theatres have rarely hitherto proved a paying speculation. Exception must be made, indeed, in the case of Islington, where Sadler's Wells had its days of glory, and where the Grand is still very popular. But Islington has, somehow, always been regarded as ...

... Theatre of Tirson of Athens, which has not been represented on the stage since Phelps produced it forty years age at Sadler's Wells. At the 17th annnal meeting of the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Association, held at StratforAon-Avon, it was ...

... Stores. The Civil Service craze is nearly over. Just think of going to Hampstead to drink the waters ? Clerkenwell and Sadler's Wells and also in . sonic prehistoric times Holywell-street all had their otialybeate springs. Where they are now not even the ...

... the Lyceum.—Nothing precisely definite is arranged with regard to the campaign of Mrs. and Miss Bateman (Mrs. Crowe) at Sadler's Wells, but it is not impossible that a new version of Guy Mannering, by Messrs. Tom Taylor and Paul Merritt, will be one ...

... at the Lyceum. Ccriolanus was acted at Sadler's Wells by Samuel Phelps on September 15, 1860, for the last time in London. Phelps gave up the theatre and management in 1862. With regard to the Sadler's Wells performance of 1860, Henry Morley, in his ...

... some little modifications, all the salient-features of this play— Old London at the Queen's; The King of the Mint at Sadler's Wells; and Lantern Light at the Elephant and Castle. These plays (the two latter being the self-same play) are actually Jack ...

... more formidable weapon than, the naked fist. Well, on Friday night one of these disgraceful exhibitions took place at Sadler's Wells Theatre. The names of the combatants are of no account. it to say that those persons fought until one of them had his ...

... scores at the 814.rey—to use a theatrical phrase—with a Forty Thieves that should, as heretofore, draw the Town. At Near Sadler's Wells there is another Forty Thieves. At the Insperm/ Bed Riding Hood, which may be recommended as the best pantomine of ...

... greatest Shaksperian success.—A burlesque on Rob Roy, by Burnand, was to be expected as soon as the of the drama at Sadler's Wells was an accomplished fact. At the Gaiety successes have not been very remarkable lately, let us hope that Robbing Roy ...

... the other day to the effect that Mr. Charles Reade's version of That Lass o' Lowrie's was about to be produced at New Sadler's Wells. That statement was not true.—The new theatre in Penton. street, as well as that convenient to the Embankment and ...

... audien. ces by providing ample means of egress. His lordship has just refused to grant a license for the new theatre of Sadler's Wells until stone stairs have been erected for all portions of the building, and his lordship is understood to have staled that ...