The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 2R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... Receipts to the performance of Shakspeare's representative " pitted against the receipts to Madame Malibran - Average of the monies taken during her respective visits to England - Cooper's speech - Advertisement for a tenant- Benefits ...
... Receipts to the performance of Shakspeare's representative " pitted against the receipts to Madame Malibran - Average of the monies taken during her respective visits to England - Cooper's speech - Advertisement for a tenant- Benefits ...
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... receipt of 145l . 9s . 6d . , while the production of Herold's Opera of Zampa , a night or two afterwards , realised the sum of 2571. 15s . Joanna Baillie and Monsieur Herold ! Oh , mon Dieu ! What is the inference to be drawn ? If a ...
... receipt of 145l . 9s . 6d . , while the production of Herold's Opera of Zampa , a night or two afterwards , realised the sum of 2571. 15s . Joanna Baillie and Monsieur Herold ! Oh , mon Dieu ! What is the inference to be drawn ? If a ...
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... receipts of the theatre had , as they then invariably do , fallen very seriously ; and to prop them up as much as possible , every variety of entertainment was resorted to . The national theatres of this country are not , like those of ...
... receipts of the theatre had , as they then invariably do , fallen very seriously ; and to prop them up as much as possible , every variety of entertainment was resorted to . The national theatres of this country are not , like those of ...
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... Receipts to the performance of ' Shakspeare's representative " pitted against the receipts to Madame Malibran - Average of the monies taken during her respective visits to England - Cooper's speech - Advertisement for a tenant- Benefits ...
... Receipts to the performance of ' Shakspeare's representative " pitted against the receipts to Madame Malibran - Average of the monies taken during her respective visits to England - Cooper's speech - Advertisement for a tenant- Benefits ...
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... it was ar- ranged , during the subsequent run of the opera , for the negro slave , at the head of the governor's proces- sion , to have in the gourd suspended to his neck 70 RECEIPTS : - THOSE OF MAD . MALIBRAN the ANECDOTE OF MALIBRAN .
... it was ar- ranged , during the subsequent run of the opera , for the negro slave , at the head of the governor's proces- sion , to have in the gourd suspended to his neck 70 RECEIPTS : - THOSE OF MAD . MALIBRAN the ANECDOTE OF MALIBRAN .
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