The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... produced on it more attractive and talented performers and per- formances than years to come will furnish . At all events , a full account of such doings will be found chronicled in their proper places , and , without appre- hension , I ...
... produced on it more attractive and talented performers and per- formances than years to come will furnish . At all events , a full account of such doings will be found chronicled in their proper places , and , without appre- hension , I ...
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... produced yet on · this very season , there was a loss of £ .20,000 !! On the 6th of July , 1815 , Mr. Whitbread com- mitted a frightful suicide ; an act , by many , attributed , at the time , to disappointment in the success of this ...
... produced yet on · this very season , there was a loss of £ .20,000 !! On the 6th of July , 1815 , Mr. Whitbread com- mitted a frightful suicide ; an act , by many , attributed , at the time , to disappointment in the success of this ...
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... produced at the one should not be represented at the other establishment . Mr. Elliston broke through both these understandings ; first , by employing Mr. Liston , and then by bringing him forward in Guy Mannering , Rob Roy , & c ...
... produced at the one should not be represented at the other establishment . Mr. Elliston broke through both these understandings ; first , by employing Mr. Liston , and then by bringing him forward in Guy Mannering , Rob Roy , & c ...
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... produced such eminent artistes . I , for one , do not think it compatible with the disposition of this country , that its places of public entertainment should be upheld by any grant from Government , nor that any of the leading pro ...
... produced such eminent artistes . I , for one , do not think it compatible with the disposition of this country , that its places of public entertainment should be upheld by any grant from Government , nor that any of the leading pro ...
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... produced the very clever hash of Brutus , the success of which was so great ( and would have been equally so , whatever the people had to pay for seeing it ) , that a loss of some thousands was the result of the reduction . Through a ...
... produced the very clever hash of Brutus , the success of which was so great ( and would have been equally so , whatever the people had to pay for seeing it ) , that a loss of some thousands was the result of the reduction . Through a ...
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