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1868 1868 : .A magnificent version of “Oliver Twist” at the Queen’s Long Acre has closed after just one month, despite an excellent cast including Henrietta Hodson, J.M.Toole, Lionel Brough, and a newcomer, Henry Irving (as Bill Sikes). Though critically acclaimed, it has failed to catch on with the public. 1868 : The Gaiety Theatre has been built on the site of the Strand Musick Hall which was demolished two years ago. The proprietor is Lionel Lawson, owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, and the theatre has been leased to a journalist, John Hollingsworth. 1868 : Last year, John Augustin Daly, the 30 year old American manager and playwright, wrote a phenomenally successful play for New York called “Under the Gaslight”. In one highly acclaimed scene a victim is tied to a railway track and, as a train approaches, is rescued in the “nick of time”. A rush of imitations has followed both in America and Britain. Variations include sawmills getting nearer and nearer a victim and other melodramatic effects. However, Dion Boucicault has written a play with exactly the same railway- track scene. Daly has sued for plagiarism and, as far as American law is concerned, he has won his case. It now remains to be seen whether the British justices will endorse the verdict. 1868 : The Oxford Music Hall Theatre has been seriously damaged by fire and has closed for several months so that the damage can be repaired. 1868 : The son of Edmund Kean, and an acclaimed Hamlet in his own right, Charles Kean will be remembered as a great innovator in production style. His costumes and sets were designed with scrupulous attention to architectural details and historical accuracy. He has died at the age of 57. He first appeared at Drury Lane as Young Norval in 1827. Unfavourable comparisons with his father were inevitable, so he left London and spent time in the provinces developing his craft. He returned to Drury Lane in 1833 and was playing Iago to his father’s Othello at Drury Lane. On March 25th his father collapsed onstage and Charles Kean helped carry his father away for what was to be his last exit. In 1842 he married the actress, Ellen Tree, and from 1850 became the joint- lessee of the Princess's Theatre, where he achieved his greatest successes. From 1859 he more or less retired, though he would occasionally travel to America or into some of the British provincial cities for a rare performance. Mr and Mrs Charles Kean in “Macbeth”, 1853 Victoria and Albert Museum Illustrated London News
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1868 : .A magnificent version of “Oliver Twist” at the Queen’s Long Acre has closed after just one month, despite an excellent cast including Henrietta Hodson, J.M.Toole, Lionel Brough, and a newcomer, Henry Irving (as Bill Sikes). Though critically acclaimed, it has failed to catch on with the public.
1868 : The Gaiety Theatre has been built on the site of the Strand Musick Hall which was demolished two years ago. The proprietor is Lionel Lawson, owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, and the theatre has been leased to a journalist, John Hollingsworth.
1868 : Last year, John Augustin Daly, the 30 year old American manager and p l a ywr i g h t , w r o t e a phenomenally successful play for New York called “Under the Gaslight”. In one highly acclaimed scene a victim is tied to a railway track and, as a train approaches, is rescued in the “nick of time”. A rush of imitations has followed both in America and Britain. Variations include sawmills getting nearer and nearer a v i c t i m a n d o t h e r me lo d ramat i c e f fec t s . However, Dion Boucicault has written a play with exactly the same railway-track scene. Daly has sued for plagiarism and, as far as American law is concerned, he has won his case. It now remains to be seen whether the British justices will endorse the verdict.
1868 : The Oxford Music Hall Theatre has been seriously damaged by fire and has closed for several months so that the damage can be repaired.
1868 : The son of Edmund Kean, and an acclaimed Hamlet in his own right, Charles Kean will be remembered as a great innovator in production style. His costumes and sets were designed with scrupulous attention to architectural details and historical accuracy. He has died at the age of 57. He first appeared at Drury Lane as Y o u n g N o r v a l i n 1 8 2 7 . Unfavourable comparisons with his father were inevitable, so he left London and spent time in the provinces developing his craft. He returned to Drury Lane in 1833 and was playing Iago to his father’s Othello at Drury Lane. On March 25th his father collapsed onstage and Charles Kean helped carry his father away for what was to be his last exit. In 1842 he married the actress, Ellen Tree, and from 1850 became the joint-lessee of the Princess's Theatre, where he achieved his greatest successes. From 1859 he more or less retired, though he would occasionally travel to America or into some of the British provincial cities for a rare performance.
Mr and Mrs Charles Kean in “Macbeth”, 1853
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