The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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Page ix
... parties ex- pressing such fears , that I felt confident their appre- hensions were unfounded . " Your Lordship would , however , confer a great favour upon those who originally did me the honour to place their cause in my hands , if ...
... parties ex- pressing such fears , that I felt confident their appre- hensions were unfounded . " Your Lordship would , however , confer a great favour upon those who originally did me the honour to place their cause in my hands , if ...
Page xiii
... parties main- tained that he had been " dug up , " and Macready had thereby been " buried , " others regretted that his first retirement was not his final one ; -and while the Mon- tagues declared that he acted finer than ever , the ...
... parties main- tained that he had been " dug up , " and Macready had thereby been " buried , " others regretted that his first retirement was not his final one ; -and while the Mon- tagues declared that he acted finer than ever , the ...
Page xix
... parties who assailed me . The howl about legitimacy , so fully commented upon in the ensuing pages will , I suppose , soon cease to be heard . It is dying in the distance daily ; for while the miserable pretence of plays " from the text ...
... parties who assailed me . The howl about legitimacy , so fully commented upon in the ensuing pages will , I suppose , soon cease to be heard . It is dying in the distance daily ; for while the miserable pretence of plays " from the text ...
Page 52
... parties who should sustain , not depress , the source from which their reputation and consequently their livelihood has sprung- THE PERFORMERS ! Her Majesty's dominions do not contain a funnier set of people than actors , a great ...
... parties who should sustain , not depress , the source from which their reputation and consequently their livelihood has sprung- THE PERFORMERS ! Her Majesty's dominions do not contain a funnier set of people than actors , a great ...
Page 56
... parties , bind them- " selves each to the other for the performance of this agreement " in the sum of 1,000l . , as agreed and liquidated damages . " - SELF , SELF , SELF , multiplied through every variety ! N. B. The reader shall have ...
... parties , bind them- " selves each to the other for the performance of this agreement " in the sum of 1,000l . , as agreed and liquidated damages . " - SELF , SELF , SELF , multiplied through every variety ! N. B. The reader shall have ...
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actor admission Alfred Bunn amongst amusement August Braham Bulwer Byron character Charles Kemble comedy Covent Garden theatre DEAR SIR dramatic Drury Lane theatre Ducrow Elliston engagement entertainment favour feelings genius George grant Harris Harvey Christian Coombe Haymarket honour humble instance Kean Kemble played King Lane and Covent lessee letter licence Liston London Lord Byron Lord Chamberlain Lordship Madame Malibran Madame Vestris Majesty Majesty's manager Mardyn Mathews matter ment Messrs Monsieur never night noble obedient servant opera opinion Paris parties patent theatres performers persons Peter Moore petitioner piece present principal profession proprietors reader receipt received reply respect Royal Drury Lane salary Samuel Whitbread scene season stage success successors supposed talent Theatre Royal Theatre Royal Drury theatrical thing Thomas Killigrew tion town tragedy W. C. Macready week William Farren Your's