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... 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 very comfortable ' upper circle , ' who were assumed to be the old and ...
... 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 very comfortable ' upper circle , ' who were assumed to be the old and ...
Page 38
... Garden John Philip Kemble received £ 30 a week ; Charles Kemble received 12 a week ( I more than he got at Drury Lane ) ; G. F. Cooke got £ 25 ; Munden , £ 14 ; Emery , £ 9 ; Lewis , £ 12 ; Johnstone , 10 ; Knight , £ 7 ; Blan- chard ...
... Garden John Philip Kemble received £ 30 a week ; Charles Kemble received 12 a week ( I more than he got at Drury Lane ) ; G. F. Cooke got £ 25 ; Munden , £ 14 ; Emery , £ 9 ; Lewis , £ 12 ; Johnstone , 10 ; Knight , £ 7 ; Blan- chard ...
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... Garden Theatre , several years earlier , and under somewhat peculiar circumstances . Wandering one night past the stage - door of old Covent Garden , I found it open and unguarded , and with the boldness and curiosity of youth ( I am ...
... Garden Theatre , several years earlier , and under somewhat peculiar circumstances . Wandering one night past the stage - door of old Covent Garden , I found it open and unguarded , and with the boldness and curiosity of youth ( I am ...
Page 67
... garden - the House of Commons on an Irish night - the betting - ring at Epsom- anything involving the utmost noise and con- fusion , would have been suggested to the foreigner , rather than the judicial calm of a Court of Law . At ...
... garden - the House of Commons on an Irish night - the betting - ring at Epsom- anything involving the utmost noise and con- fusion , would have been suggested to the foreigner , rather than the judicial calm of a Court of Law . At ...
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... Garden , which exist without any license at all . Covent Garden claims to be entitled to this favoured position by virtue of the patent granted by Charles II . to Sir William Davenant in 1662 ; but the regular descent * The Editor ...
... Garden , which exist without any license at all . Covent Garden claims to be entitled to this favoured position by virtue of the patent granted by Charles II . to Sir William Davenant in 1662 ; but the regular descent * The Editor ...
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