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NEW PLEASURE PALACE

... round the house. The stage the largest London, being eight feet bigger than Covcnt Garden, and seventeen feet bigger lhaa Drury Lane. It is fifty-five feet { vide from tho auditorium and seventy feet high. The scenery will bo shifted by machinery and runs ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1904
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 318 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

A FAMOUS VOCALIST

... business purposes with Mr.jWiEiara Harrison, starting the Pyde and Harnson Opera Company, which held seasons at the Lyceum, Drury Lane, and Covent Garden. Bat it was fated not to become permanent, and Miss Pyne went to Her Majesty’s, and from thence to the ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1904
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE HIPPODROME, PRESTON

... with thrilling race scene, the horses running being the ones that appeared in the original production of “The Whip.” at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. Mr. Scott Leighton will figure in the role of Dick Randall, spendthrift. Special music has been written ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1913
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE STAGE

... arc given. Augustus Harris receives more than passing troatmeirt. Mr. Glover tells «f produotioo, Harm, The Derby Winner” Drury Lane, when the wrong horse won the recc : •'Thefl muted the plot; ami the play ended to Hie divisive cheers llic big first-night ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1911
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

, PALACE THEATRE

... his great success at the Haymarket; entirely new version of the old favourite romantic play Nell Gwyne—The Orange Girl of Drury Lane,” and a popular adaptation from Du Maurier’s novel ** Trilby.” All three of them arc what might be called the classics of ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1913
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AT THE ROYAL’

... resjioct for Sheridan moved an adjournment. would not hear of it, howevw. ami finishing his part in the debate, hurried off to Drury Lane. It is said that the soldiers surrounding the blazing playhouse would not let him pass, upon which he remarked that. sur ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1912
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NUT WEEK’S AMUSEMENTS. THE EMPIRE, PBESTON

... pleasing effects. The bottom of the bill is shared by Downes and Langford and Tom VVoottwcli. Downes and his partner arc the Drury Lane pantomime favourites. They will create excessive mirth. Tom Woottwell is eccentric comedian. He will something distinctly ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1912
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NOT WEEK’S

... arsianche costs as much as £4, £5, and even £6 a performance ; the latter riguro being the price paid the menagement of Drury Lane Theatre tor the realistic catastrophe of the kind which figured in “ FI carts are Tramps.” Explosions usually cost very ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1906
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SOME SPANISH PROVERBS,

... coines from conviction. The way to learn i ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1914
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

PRESTON ROYAL HIPPODROME. TWICE NIGHTLY at 7 and 9. SATURDAYS, 6 45 and o'clock. MONDAY, Sept 23rd, and daring the

... Musical and Singing Act. “A MINIATURE THEATRE. Depicted on the Bioscope. WHIMSICAL WALKER, The King’s Koval Cbmedion, Drury Lane Ibeatre, Sketch; -CAPT. HAMILTON, VX^assisted the Great London Child Actress. Miss Prances Maduoek. MATINEE EVI.RY MONDAY ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1906
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HARNESS CLEANING

... of the Fountain Pen,” he dubbed his partner - is too funny for words. Having them, it is easy to understand their success Drury Lane. Aldon and Loupe are acrobats, and one of them marvellous jumper. jumps into barrels and down into barrels—barrels that ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1912
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Continued from previous column.)

... nowhere for to go doi ing the day, and the result was that partook too freely of the cup that cheers He was playing in a Drury Lane play well-known author, and was at celc brated town. In the course of one h» speeches he had to tell someone that hi> sins ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 8 | Tags: none