The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
PROFESSOR ANDERSON'S GREAT CARNIVAL
BENEFIT, MONDAY and TUESDAY, March 3rd and uh.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON moat respectfully begs to inform
his friends and the public, that his GRAND CARNIVAL COM-
PLIM E N rA ..Y BENEFIT and DRAMATIC GALA will occur
on Monday and Tuesday, the 9rd and 4th of March. It will com-
prise Opera, Drama, Pantomime, Burletta, Melodrama, and a Hal
Masque. thus constituting a round of amusement, more copious,
varied, and attractive, than has ever before occurred in Loudon.
In fact, it will be the first time in the history of entertainments
in England that any such thing h'ts been even attempted. In
America on benefit occasions, and when it is desired by profes-
sionals to pay a mark of respect to a deserving berteficiore, a
Dramatic Ca, nivel has been organised and attended with the
most profitable results. The Carnival at Covent Garden will
be an effort to realise, on English ground. that which American
ingenuity and et terprise has already accomplished with success
in the Transatlantic Theatres. Tue Carnival will com-
mence on MONDAY, March 3, at one o'clock, p.m.,
with the Comic Pantomime of IdM, entitled YE BELLE
ALLIANCE.; OR, HARLEQUIN GOOD HUMOUR, AND
THE FIELD OF Til E CLOTH OF GOLD. Henry the
Eighth, Mt. Harry Pearson ; Francis the First, Mr. W. Shalders;
Clown, Mr. Flexmore; Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes; Harlequin. Mr.
C. Brown; Columbine, Miss Emma Horne. The Pantomime to
be followed, at four o'clock, by the Drama of real life, in Two Acts
(with permission of T. Payne, Esq.), entitled TIME TRIES AIL.
Mr. Leeson (it Merchant), Mr. G. Cooke; Matthee Bates, Mr. Ba-
sil Potter; The Hnn. Collandar Yawn, Mr. Kinloch; Charles
Clinton, Mr. F. Hall, Tom Tack, Mr. T. Clarke; Laura Leeson,
Miss Herbert; Fanny Fact, Miss Somers. To be followed, at
half-part live o'clock, by the Scottish drama of GILDEROY.
Jock Muir, Professor Anderson. At a quartet-Test seven o'clock,
the favorite Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Amnia, Mrs. H Draj -
ton (late Miss Lowe); Elvin°, Mr. Henry Haigh; Rodolpho, Mr.
H. Drayton. At a quarter-pastnine (by the very gracious permits-
sion of E. T. Smith, Esq.), Mr. Charles Mathews will himself ap-
pear in the celebrated Drury Laue Farce of the GREAr GUN
TRICK supported by Messrs, Tilbury. Worrell, James Rogers,
Templeton, and Miss Ennis. After which, at half-past ten
o'clock, Mr. Leigh Murray will appear, in conjunction with
Professor Anderson, and imitate Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr.
Charles Kean. and Professor Anderson, iu the New Squib of
WHAT DOES HE WANT? The whole of the First Evening's
Entertainments to conclude with a Grand Ballet, in which
Mademoiselle Auriol, Emma Horne, amid Mr. Flexmore, will
appear. The second Evening (Tuesday, March 4) will be
devoted to the Great Wizard's GRAND HAL MASQUE, which
will commence at ten o'clock—doors open at nino o'clock. The
whole of the specious Pit will be entirely covered, the stage
thrown into the Salle de done. This Carnival w.II thus comprise
a d.anumic day, Monday, March 3, on which seven different per.
formances will take place, and more than six hundred artistes
will appear, ands second day entirely devoted to the Bal Masque.
Admission to the entertainment on Monday will be:—.Grand
balcony, ha.; upper boxes, 35.; pit and amphitheatre stalls,
25. Id.; with the privilege of leaving the house and returning,
or of taking refreshment in the theatre. Admission to the Bal
Masque on Tuesday, for a lady or gentleman, ss. Spectators—
grand balcony. Is.; upper boxes. 35.; amphitheatre stalls, 2s. Id.;
gallery, Is. Mr. Simmons, of Tavistock-street, Coveut-garden,
is appointed sole costumier of the Bal Masque.
The Bal Masque will positively take place on Tuesday, March
4th. Masters of the Ceremonies under the direction of Messrs.
Flexmore and Caldwell.