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Prince of Wales Opera House : The Heir at Law, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of George Colman's The Heir at Law and George Dibdin Pitt's Susan Hopley; or, The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl on 30 September 1868.
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To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.
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Amateur Entertainment at Victoria House,
single work
column
(p. 2)
The Empire reports on a 'fashionable amateur performance' given by the employees of Farmer, Painter and Pope (drapers of Pitt Street) on 28 September 1868. The evening began with James Robinson Planché's The Loan of a Lover and this was followed by 'a new adaptation of the Oriental burlesque of "Blue Beard"'. The latter was 'introduced by a sprightly prologue, specially written for the occasion by Mr. Frank Hutchinson'.
- Excelsiori"Steadily, steadily, step by step,", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Jemmy, good bye, the best of friends must part,", single work poetry (p. 4)
