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... BILLS.-A curious method of fat supplying any want of big names in a bill has been rib adopted by the management of a Variety Theatre in Ireland. A female member of the company gives imita- tions of various celebrated music hall performers, and me the ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 833 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

--. EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM BY A RECTOR

... Hive you no antique ruins here?- Milwankeiiii at present, unless, perhaps, you may beablp to find a few over at the variety theatre. However, if you will wait till some show is billed to appear in the city with a bally, you can go and see antique ruins ...

Published: Monday 18 March 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 942 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL THEATRE LICENCES

... af a music hi l. Some of the justices called it a singing saloon. It was nothing of the kind. It was a music hall or variety theatre. A- a music hall it was a credit to Glasgow. It compared favourabliY, in regard to equipment, discipline, and patronage ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1899 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

I LOCAL AMUSEMENTS.I

... lumineuse of Miss Jenny Mills drew large audiences to the prettily appointed hall in Charles-street, Newport-the only variety theatre of tip-top class in Monmouthshire. At both performances the audiences expressed their delight in rounds of applause, and ...

Published: Tuesday 16 June 1896
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1012 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AMUSEMENTS. I

... (Oardiff). I Excellent performances and large audiences have been the rule at the elaborately furnished and comfortable variety theatre in Queen-street for many months past, but the return visit of the Lilliputians-the talented Colibris--will probably cause ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1897
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 967 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

- LOCAL AMUSEMENTS

... its size. Those fortunate to secure seats were treated to a pro- gramme hard to equal and not ben.ten at any provincial variety theatre. Most appreciated was the expensive turn by Lockhart's elephants, the animals generally proving the possession of remarkable ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1895
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1043 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Green-room Gossip. It

... tableaux vivants, not a single ballet, not a sketch, not a story, not an instance of dramatic action played to-night at any variety theatre or music-hall in London that is not absolutely illegal according to the terms of Acts of Parlia- ments now on the statute-book ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1894
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1132 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE MILITARY FLYING COLUMN

... ahe members of the Canadian Artiller Volunteers, we.e (by special invitation of the directors present at the Alhambra Variety Theatre on Thursday evening, and witnessed the ballet of Cupid and the 'military spectacle of File Bivouac. I DEATH OF AN ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1886
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1010 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HE EMPIRE PALACE

... HE EMPIRE PALACE. To sanet that the venture represented in the Empire Variety Theatre was successfully launched last ?? is to speak in very moderate, not to say insufficIent, terms. In the first place, striking as was the appearance of the house At the ...

Published: Tuesday 07 November 1893
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE NEW METROPOLITAN

... than that of any English variety theatre. Indeed, the Continent has been thoroughly explored by architect, artist, and directors themselves for any and every suggestion that would add to the beauty of our latest variety theatre. From Brussels come many ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1897
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2882 | Page: 16 | Tags: News 

THE TYRANNY OF LESE-MAJESTE

... entered an hotel, about 10.30, with two gentlemen. We sat there charting for an hour, when people from the adjoining variety theatre enme streaming in. I rose to go, and had ilready got my overcoat on, when I one of the gentlemen invited me to drink a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE AL FRESCO FAYRE

... and highly respected public per- z former, and for the last five years stage-manager and a scenic artist at the Gaiety Variety Theatre, Newcastle- on-Tyne, were interred, on Sunday, in the beautiful - cemetery at Jesmond, the cortege consisting of hearse ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1889
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 16 | Tags: News