The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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Page xi
... night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a matter of such recent occurrence ...
... night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a matter of such recent occurrence ...
Page xii
... nights in an earlier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent manager , as the London season ...
... nights in an earlier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent manager , as the London season ...
Page xiii
... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By ...
... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By ...
Page xvi
... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade concerts to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic performances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade concerts to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic performances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
Page xvii
... NIGHTS , between the 26th Octo- ber , 1839 , and the 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " What ! A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , to extend but to four months , and in those four ...
... NIGHTS , between the 26th Octo- ber , 1839 , and the 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " What ! A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , to extend but to four months , and in those four ...
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