The Days’ Doings. October 7th, 1871

OUR GALLERY OF PUBLIC FAVOURITES.—No. 3. Miss Neilson as Rebecca at Drury Lane Theatre. “WE this week present our readers with a characteristic portrait of Miss Neilson, the popular actress, of Drury Lane Theatre. The success of the latest version of “Ivanhoe,” although due in great measure to splendour of scenery and decoration, is also

The Days’ Doings November 19th 1870

Volume 1, Number 17. Mademoiselle Pitteri was dancing the lead in performances of Estella at the National Standard Theatre in Shoreditch. The show was originally to have been put on at The Alhambra Music Hall but that establishments dancing licence had not yet been renewed by the Middlesex Magistrates due to a performance where a

The Days’ Doings November 12th 1870

Volume 1. Number 16 This weeks cover is an engraving after a painting called “Interieur Pompeien” by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, a Belgian artist who was living in Naples in the mid 19th century and was inspired by the excavations in Pompeii to paint in what is known as Neo-Pompeian style. This picture may have been celebrated