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... GAIETY CHARLES MATHEWS'S LAST YEARS IN LONDON HOW THE ELECTRIC LIGHT CAME TO LONDON A TALE OF TWO CHIMNEYS . THE MYSTERY OF A DRESS - COAT . 105 • III . 117 · 125 HOW TO MANAGE A CERTAIN PARASITE . 139 148 AS SAFE AS THE BANK PLAIN ...
... GAIETY CHARLES MATHEWS'S LAST YEARS IN LONDON HOW THE ELECTRIC LIGHT CAME TO LONDON A TALE OF TWO CHIMNEYS . THE MYSTERY OF A DRESS - COAT . 105 • III . 117 · 125 HOW TO MANAGE A CERTAIN PARASITE . 139 148 AS SAFE AS THE BANK PLAIN ...
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... Gaiety Theatre was during the French plays last season , and like Covent Garden is on a great Patti - night — that is , a house with no pit . For this he was exposed to something like a riot on the first night by a number of people in a ...
... Gaiety Theatre was during the French plays last season , and like Covent Garden is on a great Patti - night — that is , a house with no pit . For this he was exposed to something like a riot on the first night by a number of people in a ...
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... Gaiety Theatre . If I were to take a few bricks out of the back wall of the room in which I was first introduced to Charles Dickens , and in which I first began my work as an author and a journalist , I could look on to the stage of the ...
... Gaiety Theatre . If I were to take a few bricks out of the back wall of the room in which I was first introduced to Charles Dickens , and in which I first began my work as an author and a journalist , I could look on to the stage of the ...
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... Gaiety in Wellington Street , and to which I was an occasional contributor , and proceed to my first introduction to Mr. Toole . I was intro- duced to him at the corner of Wellington Street , in the Strand , by the late Mr. H. Wid ...
... Gaiety in Wellington Street , and to which I was an occasional contributor , and proceed to my first introduction to Mr. Toole . I was intro- duced to him at the corner of Wellington Street , in the Strand , by the late Mr. H. Wid ...
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... lord chamberlains were content only to suspend stage - plays on that particular day which in future ought to be known in the calendar as St. Thespis the Martyr . MR . PHELPS AT THE GAIETY . M R. PHELPS'S 104 Theatrical Licenses .
... lord chamberlains were content only to suspend stage - plays on that particular day which in future ought to be known in the calendar as St. Thespis the Martyr . MR . PHELPS AT THE GAIETY . M R. PHELPS'S 104 Theatrical Licenses .
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