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MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... old soldier. Miss Riphinstone is clever, but wants cultivation; she is too muds and toe little of an actress, that is, she is too little of an actress to bide that she is acting. Miss Cooper gives great promise for the fatisre by the modest, unassuming ...

Published: Sunday 14 October 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6166 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHIT-CHAT

... Mrs. Al. W. Balfe, wife of Mr. W. Balfe (the popular actor and composer at Drury-lane), will shortly make her debut as an actress and singer. It is stated that Mr. C. Fergusson is about to retire, owing to bad health, from the representation of the stewartry ...

Published: Sunday 28 October 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1294 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

BILLETS DOUX OF THE BAYADERES.—No. II

... call go ! This, to thy unenlightened mind, may seem but little ; but know, Chingaree, in this strange land, actors and actresses are daily made by pushing, and be pushing only. Yates once boasted that, if he liked, lie could psish the yellow fever. ...

Published: Sunday 04 November 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1690 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... has been the signal for the assumption of attitude to form a striking family tableau. The prompter's bell rings for the actresses to take their places, who fly to their portfolios, their pianos, their harps, and their books, ready for execution on the ...

Published: Sunday 11 November 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3269 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHIT-CHAT

... elected associates. M. Rothschild, the banker, has furnished beautiful apart- ments in Paris for Mdlle. Rachael, the new actress, who is a Jewess. The King has sent her 1,000 francs. A new college, to be specially called The Queen's, has been projected ...

Published: Sunday 11 November 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 648 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THINGS IN GENERAL

... to the English poor-law allowance-half rations! A SeVER-GILT CRowN, stolen from Mademoiselle Mfars, the celebrated French actress, cost 3,000 francs ; and the person who made it stated in court that the materials might be worth 150. But this is not the ...

Published: Sunday 16 December 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... trembling hand, Then stabbed the bard to make the theft secure. FAC ET l AE . Mrs. Cruse, who in her day, was rather a celebrated actress in the Provinces, applied for pecuniary assistance to an actor, more famed for his wit than his charity. His reply was a cross ...

Published: Sunday 20 January 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2930 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... Rankley, as Beatrice, was a spirited and wvell judged piece of performance. This lady has all the requisites for a first-rate actress; after a little more practice in the provinces, she will no doubt find a niche in the metropolis. BRISTOL.-The spirited manager ...

Published: Sunday 10 February 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4529 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... Betty to herself, putting her hand in her pocket, - to think that I only got a bad shilling for letting of her out t THE ACTRESS. TitE Coi'r M1AGeAZINE not to talk of its illuminated portrait, is mnore vari ous, an umore interesting this month, than we ...

Published: Sunday 10 February 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6580 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND ART

... the stage still retains her ucaidenc name. Her voice is a full, rich soprano, but her compass is not great. She is a better actress than the generality of singers, and is as much respected in private life for her amiability and goodness, as she is liked ...

Published: Sunday 17 February 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6617 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES. The pr

... merits, if we are net mistaken, must speedily raise her to high rank upon the London boards. That meritorious and agreeable, actress, Mrs. Sterling, is retained, we believe, by Penley for his approaching expe- flment, with light pieces and low prices, at ...

Published: Sunday 24 February 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3237 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHIT-CHAT

... been possible to bring hisi to Paris. The Mar- quis of St. Pierre was the antaginist, and the quarrel was about a Frencis actress. The Ildicaeetrr, a sermiofficial joi-nal, publisied at Githa, ielates the followingv fact, eiriris toolk place there, nd ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1475 | Page: 5 | Tags: News