The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

BRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN
TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock.

THIS VEIsTING, a new Operetta, entitled ONCE
TOO OFTEN. Herr Reichardt, Here ,Forries, Mdlle.
Jenny Batter, and Miss E. Heywood.
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 onderful 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 Transfor-
mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, 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. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by
Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the
Flowers supplied by Rimmel's process.
The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written
by E. L. BLANCH.ARD.
And the whole arranged and produced under the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY.

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

With
.Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the
Distance (Daylight).

" Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get
her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard
was bare, .and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur-
sery Legend.
Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins; Her Dog, Signor
Lorenzo ; Jack kthe " Man 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"). Nu,- c+...art.. now Mother Hubbard has a
certain party" to tea and ram 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 incr,omation of Mother Hubbard on her own
hearth. sty,,i her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick.
TIIE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL,
in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight.
Will-o'-the-Wisp

Igneg Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes,
Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammilton, 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 I The Incantation!! and the Evapora.
tion 1 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, Shle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway ;
Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tight& ; Mum-
mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, 'gagger, Cracksides,
M'Phnn, &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
nevol that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time
How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is
rested in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub -
bard's remon.
THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset).
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Grand scene Comique and Pas de Broomstick, by
Mother Hubbard.
The Dreamer and thd Worker—The Vision of Pleasure
and the Division of Lab'qur—Figures of Fun (from the
Fancy-store of Dykwynkyn)--Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes,
Carpenter, Hodman, Old Brick, and Young Shaver, Lilli-
putian Labourers, Pigmy Plasterefs, TinfTilers, Minia-
ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf
Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters i;.7 a Host of Juvenile
Auxiliaries.