Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

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frEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE,
THE NEW, GRAND, COMIC PANTOMIME. ~Lrg

THIS DAY (Saturday,) the Yth instant,
THE SECOND GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE
of the PANTOMIME,
Preceded by THE TWO GREGORIES.
Doors open at Half-past One o'clock, csnnmenciag at Two.

'TIIIS EVENING, and every evening during the next week,
THE LITTLE TREASURE.
After which, the New, Grand, Comic, Christmas Pantomime,
entitled,
LITTLE SNOW WHITE;
OR,
HARLEQUIN PRINCE GOLDENHEART, AND THE MAIDEN
WHO NEVER SAW HER FACE IN A GLASS!
The Opening St Ty of the Pantomime (written expressly for
this Theatre) by Mr. Charles Millward.
The Overture and Music of the Opening, and the Music of
the Comic Scenes composed, selected -and arranged by Mr.
Musgrave. The Scenery of the Pantomime designed and
painted by Mr. George Dawson, assisted by Messrs. Penn,
Goodman, Hall, and Rogers. The Machinery by Mr. Caw-
drey. The Masks by Mr. Clarkson. The Properties by Mr.
Jenkins, assisted by Messrs. Dearlove, stn and E. Lauri.
"The Dresses by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffiies. The whole of the
Dances arranged by Miss M`Gi ty and Miss Bramah. The
Action of the Ballet directed by Miss M‘Ginty.
ARGUMENT.
'Ever so long ago there existed a remote little kingdom in
the realms of Extravagance called Faraway, which, at the
primitive period to which this story refers, was governed by a
-crafty and tyrannical monarch, yclept Squander, whose reckless
and unchecked expenditure (book-keeping being then unknown
and auditors never dreamt of,) had plunged his little king-
dom and his wretched subjects into an abject state of poverty
and want. In order to replcnish his empty coffers, and
to stop the murmurs of his impoverished followers, King
squander conceived the idea of effecting a matrimonial
alliance between his only son, the handsome Prince Goldon-
heart, and a wealthy spinster Princess, his ward, whose
•eliarms were buried in her money-bags. Like many modern
match-makers, his Majesty speedily made the discovery taat
'his task was more difficult than he had imagined ; for
although the intended bride was quite willing, the bridegroom
elect expressed a decided objection to the alliance. Finding
his son so obstinate that threats and entreaties alike failed to
turn him from his anti-matrimonial purpose, the King de-
vised a cunning scheme, by which he hoped to overcome the
scruples of his son, and entrap hiM into wedlock with the
by-no-means beautiful Princess. Having an ungallant idea
that the fair sex were wholly and without exception addicted
t 0 the looking-glass (those in which they could see their own
faces, having been invented about that time), he despatched the
Prince upon his travels, and obtained his royal promise that if
he returned without having discovered a fair maiden who had
never beheld-her face in a glass, he would then accept the prof-
fered hard of the obnoxious Princess. Proceeding upon his
novel and apparently hopeless mission, the Prince had almost
resigned himself to despair, when, wearied and dispirited, he
reached an enchanted forest, and, by the aid of certain good
dairies who dwelt therein, he w s enabled to discover the object
of his search in the person of little Snow-white, a woad nymph,
who, together with her companions, had not only never seen
their own faces in a glass, but had never seen the face of one
man until the arrival of Prince Golden-heart in their abode,
which was
,a sequestered dell on the borders of Fairyland.
The Prince, overjoyed by his wonderful discovery, was at once
smitten with her beauty, and the- maiden was not slow to
reciprocate the sentiment.
Their future was probably a happy one—but history,is obli-
vious of their subsequent career. Certain learned antiquarians,
whose special mission is to attempt to make people believe that
the musty records of past and gone are of more importance to
' the living present than the stirring events of the existing gene-
ration, or the onward advancement of the future, are of opinion
that-the ancient kingdon of Faraway has, been discovered
beneath the Goodwin Sands, and a.Limited Liability scheme 'is
in contemplation for exploriv e• that highly attractive locality.
By others it is contended that.Hilbre Island covers the defunct
kingdom, and this supposition is encouraged by the recent dis-
covery of a fossil, bearing a strong rese nblance to a missing
toothpkk, formerly the property of King Squander. Other
equally teemed pundits are of opinion: that Faraway is buried
an oblivion, and that it never existed an, where but in the
inventive imagination of a needy author.