The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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Page viii
... effect , took a course somewhat differing from his first , but in reality only preparatory to , the one he had in previous sessions adopted . He addressed the Lord Chamberlain direct , and the answer he obtained from that noble ...
... effect , took a course somewhat differing from his first , but in reality only preparatory to , the one he had in previous sessions adopted . He addressed the Lord Chamberlain direct , and the answer he obtained from that noble ...
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... effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By virtue of these said eleven nights in Lent , and by the previous advantage of having opened in September , Madame ...
... effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By virtue of these said eleven nights in Lent , and by the previous advantage of having opened in September , Madame ...
Page xxxiii
... effect , and what it does - Thomas Campbell's reception in it -- Sin- gular success leading to singular disaster - Kean and Macready's Shaksperian language - Madame Malibran's mind defined in her correspondence - Mr . Hackett and Mr ...
... effect , and what it does - Thomas Campbell's reception in it -- Sin- gular success leading to singular disaster - Kean and Macready's Shaksperian language - Madame Malibran's mind defined in her correspondence - Mr . Hackett and Mr ...
Page xxxiv
... effects of the GRAND JUNCTION , and its overflow Page 124 CHAPTER VIII . Ambassadors - foreign and otherwise - Advantages of a tout ensemble - the decline of Pantomime , the cause , and the loss supplied - A humorous instance of stage ...
... effects of the GRAND JUNCTION , and its overflow Page 124 CHAPTER VIII . Ambassadors - foreign and otherwise - Advantages of a tout ensemble - the decline of Pantomime , the cause , and the loss supplied - A humorous instance of stage ...
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... effects . The- atres , their directors , and all persons employed in them , are considered , by some people , public property Lord Stanley ( for the safety of whose son Richmond is naturally anxious ) THUS , on his entry after the issue ...
... effects . The- atres , their directors , and all persons employed in them , are considered , by some people , public property Lord Stanley ( for the safety of whose son Richmond is naturally anxious ) THUS , on his entry after the issue ...
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