The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

1R UR Y-LANE THEATRE ROYAL.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN-
TOMIbIE every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock.
THIS EVENING, a new Operetta, entitled ONCE
TOO OFTEN. Herr Reichardt, Herr Formes, Mdlle.
Jenny Bauer, and Miss E. Ileywood.
After which will be produced, with that attention to com-
pleteness in every department by which the Christmas
Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis-
tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled

HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT;
or, Old Mother Hubbard and her Ronderful Dog.

" If a man do build a dwelling upon common land from
sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein
there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim-
ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall
be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con-
trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter.
The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by
WILLIAM BEVERLEY.

Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c.
Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and
Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn.
The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr.
J. H. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As-
sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transtor•
mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Ghndon, H.
Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin-
son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments
by Mr. li inckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by
Mr. Cormack. Th© Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by
Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the
Flowers supplied by Riinmel's process.
The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written
by E. L. BLANCHAR D.
And the whole arranged and produced under the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROBBY.

Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters,
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE,

With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in tho

Distance (Daylight).
"Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get
her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard
Wits bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Aucient Nur-
sery Legend.
Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor
M
Lorenzo ; Jack (the " an all tattered and torn "), Miss
F. Hunt ; the Squire, Mr. Tom Matthews Dame Wiggins
of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won-
derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master
Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab ; Parish
Beadle, Mr. Bumble ; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin,
Whackstraw, Chawbacon &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden
all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. Wow Mother Hubbard has a
certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable
pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat,
and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative—
Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning—
Threatened ineremation of Mother Hubbard on her own
hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick.
THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL,
in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight.
Miss Lanza,

Ignes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes,
Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammi ton, Stap-
ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer. Hawkins, Delaney,
Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel-
ton,

Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN.
NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.

The Invocation! The Incantation I I and the Evapora-
tion I I I

THE VILLAGE GREEN_AND ROADSIDE ALE-

HOUSE.

Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche
(his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ; Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe,
Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway;
Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum-
mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides,
O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c.; St. George, Mr. E. Roe; the
Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ;
Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear-
Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins ; Land-
lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap,
Flip, Flap, &c., &c. ; Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman.
How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village
:Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time I
How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is
rested in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub -
bard's reason.