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THE THEATRES

... respectable performance. Mr. Morton Ta- vares, a new melodramatic actor of some reputation, and described as a native ofthe West Indies, made his appear ance in the part of Edmund Tressilian, but he failed to make any impression on the audience. Mr. J. B ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1141 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... Sydney Piatt, the Master of the Hunt, and the owner of Sir Thomas and Southampton, sailed from Plymouth on Sunday for the West Indies in a steam yacht chartered from Admiral Lord Clarence Paget. He takes out with him Steele, the ground man, and a number ...

MUSIC

... at Trippler's Hall, New York, singing an air from La Sonnambula. When she was twelve she went on a concert tour in the West Indies; and 011 November 24, 1859, she made her operatic debut in New York as Lucia. In 1 861 she first appeared in London. Mr ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1884
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1287 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

THE READER

... to be) it is an inquiry into the social condition and methods of administration of two of these colonies, Ceylon and the West Indies-- for the book is one of a series. Mr. Salmon thinks that Home Rule, in the rational sense of the term (self-government ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1651 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW

... of it, was seemingly exemplified in the wild attempt at simultaneously typifying such a widely diversified area as the West Indies, South Africa, and the Cape Colonies. The car was drawn by ■six horses led by the like number of sturdy fellows, their faces ...

REVIEWS

... of the Saragasso Sea. By John C. Hutcheson. Blackie and Co. This volume opens with a readable description of life in the West Indies, and for several chapters gives a fairly good idea of the things of interest on board ship and around attending a voyage ...

CARL ROSA COMPANY

... musical instrument and need capital to manufacture with. I have travelled in the East Indies, Africa, South America, and West Indies. I am a white man was born in Newark in 1864. Have bsen away since 1876. Have no living relatives. The name of my instrument ...

REVIEWS

... Commodore Junk is a young woman of the West country, whose brother, for avenging a wrong done to her, is transported to tho West Indies. In the disguise of a boy she rescues him, and as a consequence is compelled to make war upon society as a buccaneer. Her ...

THE READER

... with so 'prentice a hand. He was hardly fifty years of age when he died of dysentery on his abortive expedi tion to the West Indies in January, 1596, and was buried at sea. And yet he had lived his life, and the strength which had carried so many desperate ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1891
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2110 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Books Worth Reading: THE FOUNDER OF SINGAPORE

... records of his early days are somewhat scant. His father was the captain of a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies. It was characteristic of the future career of the man that Raffles should have been born at sea, off the coast of Jamaica ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3967 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review