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" In London in the 1880s, playing in small theater clubs " on a stage the size of a cadaver ", not daring to play on a Friday night or to light a fire on stage on a Saturday afternoon ( both because of the Jewish Sabbath ), forced to use a cardboard ram's horn when playing Uriel Acosta so as not to blaspheme, Yiddish theatre nonetheless took on much of what was best in European theatrical tradition.
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By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.
The word " tabloid " comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as " Tabloid " pills in the late 1880s.
Moral reform movements attempted to close down brothels, something that has sometimes been argued to have been a factor in the concentration of street-prostitution in Whitechapel ( where the Jack the Ripper prostitute murders took place ), part of the East End of London, by the 1880s ( near the end of the 19th century ).
* Gladstone class, or LB & SCR B1 class, a series of steam locomotives of the 1880s, built by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
GEC traces its origins to G. Binswanger and Company, an electrical goods wholesaler established in London during the 1880s by a German immigrant Gustav Binswanger ( later Gustav Byng ).
Alfred Bean, railway-engineer and one-time owner of Danson House, furthered the development of Bexleyheath as a London suburb by championing the Bexleyheath Line in the 1880s to support the growth of estates around Danson Park.
Never in Russia, never later in the worst slums of New York, were we to see such poverty as in the London of the 1880s.
* William Williams ( rugby player ) ( 1866 – 1945 ), rugby union footballer of the 1880s and 1890s for Wales, Cardiff RFC, and London Welsh RFC
In the early 1880s they moved to Poplar, London.
Sickert's earliest major works, dating from the late 1880s, were portrayals of scenes in London music halls, often depicted from complex and ambiguous points of view, so that the spatial relationship between the audience, performer and orchestra becomes confused, as figures gesture into space and others are reflected in mirrors.
According to Jacob Adler, Wilson Barrett was the most famous actor on the London stage of the 1880s.
In London, Terry lived in Earl's Court with her children and pets during the 1880s.
* Essex Church, the first Unitarian church in England, moved in 1880s from central London to Kensington
A further follow-up article in the London People on 19 May 1895, written by Joseph Hatton, identified him as Dr. Benjamin Howard, an American doctor who had practised in London during the late 1880s.
The first modern coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England in the early 1880s, dispensing post cards.
One of the first matriculants, Molly Thomas, recounted the experience of the first class of students in A London Girl of the 1880s, published under her married name, M. V.
Hughes, A London Girl of the 1880s ( Oxford, 1936 ).
The London and North Western Railway locomotive engineer F W Webb adopted the idea and converted some existing locomotives in 1879, followed by de Glehn and others in the 1880s and several American engineers in the 1890s, which included some vertical boiler railcar applications.
In the late 1880s he returned to London where he edited the magazines Gossip and Piccadilly before joining the staff of the newspaper The Globe in 1891 as a parliamentary reporter.
The arrival of the railway to Chesham during the 1880s enabled travel to London and other conurbations.
The arrival of the railway to Chesham during the 1880s, the relative closeness to London and other conurbations and improvement to the road networks and public transport resulted in work being sought from further afield.
Leno's other London venues in the late 1880s included the Collins Music Hall in Islington, the Queen's Theatre in Poplar and the Standard in Pimlico.
As a consequence, Irish butter imports to London dropped to under one per cent in the early 1880s.
By the late 1880s the LB & SCR had developed the largest suburban network of any British railway with 68 route miles in the London suburbs in addition to its main lines, in three routes radiating between London Bridge and Victoria.
London and playing
This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.
They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.
His talent extended to playing mandolin on one of the tracks of this rare British EP, recorded in London on 28 July 1955.
In 1938, the Wings and the Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London.
His playing was known all the way from his homeland Italy to the Tsardom of Russia and he found a prominent place performing in concerts with the Philharmonic Society of London.
Women have been playing association football since the first recorded women's game in 1895 in North London.
They are the oldest established football team from London playing in the Premier League.
In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.
The London Underground map serves as a playing field for the conceptual game of Mornington Crescent ( which is named after a station on the Northern Line ) and the board game The London Game.
Barry Vincent Jackson staged an influential modern-dress production with the Birmingham Repertory in 1928 ; the production reached London, playing at the Royal Court Theatre.
Richards, Taylor, and Jagger found Brian Jones as he sat in playing slide guitar with Alexis Korner's seminal London R & B band, Blues Incorporated, at the Ealing Jazz Club.
David Holliday, who had been playing Gladhand since the London opening, took over as Tony, playing opposite Roberta D ' Esti's Maria, and Mary Preston as Anita.
in London, playing the part of Arrow, Oblio's ( Jones ) pet dog.
2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.
For centuries before the first meeting of the Football Association in the Freemasons ' Tavern on Long Acre, London on 26 October 1863, there were no universally accepted rules for playing football.
West Ham United Football Club are an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, London, currently playing in the Premier League, England's top tier of football.
Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for a very successful 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.
About two brothers in South-East London, the series was in many ways a forerunner to Only Fools And Horses, only Jason was in the more dopey ' Rodders ' role, with Peter Armitage playing the cleverer of the two.
This honour was bestowed on him after his resignation from the Savilian chair in Oxford, by which time he had already begun to make his mark as an architect, both in services to the Crown and in playing an important part in rebuilding London after the Great Fire.
Later, in July, an official announcement was made that the band would break up after a farewell tour of the United States and after playing two concerts in London.
He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the company with which Henry Purcell worked, playing roles such as the magician Ismeron in The Indian Queen, where he sang the major aria " Ye twice ten hundred deities ".
They later toured overseas, visiting the United Kingdom as a support act for Counting Crows, playing their own shows alongside the tour at venues including Dingwalls in London.
Both the album release and the tour happened in mid-April, with Cake playing at the London Astoria.
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