For me was reserved the high honor of discovering among the rubbish of the ruined Coliseum the only playbill of that establishment now extant.
It was always so that he was writing himself," said Queenie, when Sylvia read her the announcement; she spoke in a voice of awe as if the playbill had been inscribed by a warning fate.
The door-keeper departed up a dark passage, and Easleby pointed Starmidge to a playbill which hung, framed on the wall, behind them.
Your playbill is a wonderfully accurate expositor of the mysteries of your human being.
One of Charles Lamb's most pleasant papers arose from "the casual sight of an old playbill which I picked up the other day; I know not by what chance it was preserved so long.
Mossop's name in the playbill was always in a type nearly two inches long, the rest of the performers' names being in very small letters.
There is probably no playbill extant of an earlier date than 1663.
Some new development of the playbill in this direction may be in store for us in the future.
If these lines save oneplaybill only from the fate I have recorded, I shall not deem my labour ill employed.
Clancy was blind, and the playbill was headed with the line from Milton, "The day returns, but not to me returns.
Attempts to follow Parisian example, and to make the playbill at once a vehicle for general advertisements and a source of amusing information upon theatrical subjects, have been ventured here occasionally, but without decided success.
Upon this occasion, the playbill used had been one of the newest, the result being, that a good deal of ink had been transferred from the larger letters to Mrs Winks' forehead, giving it a somewhat smudgy look.
