Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

AttlitStMtlltS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.
TUE NEW, GRAND, COMIC PANTOMIME. .4n

Doors open at Half-past One o'clock, commencing at Two.

THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week,
THE LITTLE TREASURE.

After which, the New, Grand, Comic, hristmas Pantom:me,
entitled,
LITTLE SNOW WHITE;

HARLEQUIN PRINCE GOLDENII EART, AND THE MAIDEN

WHO NEVER SAW HER FACE IN A GLASS!

The Opening St lry of 'the Pantomime (Viritten 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
Tainted by Mr. George Dawson, assisted by Messrs. Penn,
Goodman, Hall, and Rogers. The Machinery by Mr. Caw-
drey.- The lfasks by -Mr. Clarkson. The-Properties by Mr.
Jenkins, assisted by Messrs. Dearlove, Sell , and E. *Lauri;
The Dresses by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffeies, The whole of the
Dances arranged by Miss M'Gi ty and Miss Brainah. The
Action of the Ballet directed by Miss M‘Ginty.
ARGUMENT.
Ever so lang 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 ulicheeked expenditure (book-keeping being then unknown
,and auditors never dreamt of,) had plunged his little king—
dom turd his wretched subjects into an abject state of poverty
and want. In order to replenish his empty coffers, and
to stop the murmurs of his impoverished followers King
Bquanderl connived the idea of effecting a matrimonial'
alliance between his only son, the handsome Prince Golden-
heart, and a wealthy spinster. Princess, his ward, whose
charms were buriesl in her money-bags. Like many modern
match-makers, his Majesty speedily made the discovery that
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 sunning scheme, by which he hoped to overcome the
scruples of his son, and entrap him into wedlock with the
by-nolmcans beautiful Princess. Having an ungallant idea
that the fair sex were wholly and without exception addicted
to the looking-glass (those in which they could see their own
laces, 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, ho would then accept the prof-
-*red hand of the obnoxious Princess. Proceeding upon his
novel and apparently hopeless mission, the Prince had almost
resigned himself tp despair, when, wearied and dispirited, he
reached an enchanted- forest, and, by the aid of certain gOod
fairies who dwelt therein, he w er 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 owu 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 kis 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 misty records of past and'gone are of more importance to
athe living present than the stirring events of the existing gcne-
Lration, 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 Liabilityscheme is
an contemplation for explorNg 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 resesiblance to a missing
toothpick, formerly the property of King Squander. Other
!squally learned pundits are of opinion that Faraway is buried
in oblivion, and that it never existed- an where but in the
inventive imagination of a needy author.

•
Ha.rleq TRANSFORMATION.
uin • Mr. W. Waite Pantaloon Mr. E. Lauri
Clown,. Mr.. Power Columbine Miss .134'Ginty

• Oh y next MORNING
the 7th Janu; •
THE SECOND Saturday
GRAND PERFORMANCE
of the PANTOMIME.

Admission :---Dress Boxes, 45.; Tipper Roue, 3s. ; Pit, 20.;
Gallery, Is.
Doors Opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven o'clock precisely.
The Itox-oftlee is Open from Ten to Three, for securing
Seats in the Dross Circle and tali g Private Boxes, which, may
1e 4841 under the tiano: e Weston.