Meanings of theatrical entertainments in English

The day after the nuptials was dedicated to theatrical entertainments.

Great part of your arguments apply to musical as well as to theatrical entertainments.

He could no longer afford the luxury of theatrical entertainments, except when provided with a free admission.

The band here represented is much stronger than those that generally figure in Japanese orchestral and theatrical entertainments.

Lacking these, the masses resort to the saloon, gambling-houses, cheap music and dance halls, and vulgar theatrical entertainments.

The people in Worcester had the old Puritanic dislike to theatrical entertainments, and had always refused to license such exhibitions.

It was solemnized at AEgae, the ancient capital of Macedonia, with much pomp, including banquets, and musical and theatrical entertainments.

The sermons, from two to four hours long, took the place of magazines, newspapers, and modern musical and theatrical entertainments.

Evangelical ladies there are, likewise, whose attachment to the forms of religion, and horror of theatrical entertainments, are most exemplary.

He made a charming host, and was never happier than when engineering theatrical entertainments at his delightful home, Gads Hill.

His discourses were powerful exhortations to the universal mortification of the senses, and he was particularly severe against all theatrical entertainments.

Our theatrical entertainments took place regularly once a fortnight, and continued to prove a source of infinite amusement to the men.

Under its auspices two private theatrical entertainments had been given at the Opera House and the proceeds turned over to the Red Cross.

Captain Osborne was a great lover of the drama, and had himself performed high-comedy characters with great distinction in several garrison theatrical entertainments.

With Sir William Davenant as patentee and manager of the Duke's Theatre, stage dancing and singing acquired a more distinguished position among theatrical entertainments.

The festival lasts a fortnight, and is a succession of feasts and theatrical entertainments, everybody's object being to cast care and work to the winds.