The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

REVIEWS OP THE WORK.

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DRURY-LANE.
This theatre last night commenced its season in
earnest with a grand comic Christmas pantomime,
entitled " Peter Wilkins ; or, Harlequin and the
Flying Women of the Loadstone Island." The
first scene represents the interior of a Cornish mine,
where Peter Wilkins (Mr. W. Templeton) is dis-
covered to be rather of a lazy turn, and receives
" more kicks than halfpence" as his reward. On
the visit of Earl Trevanion (Mr. R. Power) to the
mine, which is his property, accompanied by his
fair daughter Constantia (Miss Conway), Peter
falls in love with the latter, and is beloved byher
in return. Hereupon the captain of the mine and
his brother miners vent their spleen upon poor
Peter by shutting him up for the night in the
mine, and here, in the midst of his solitude, he is
visited by Feldspar, the chief of the Kobolds, or
Goblins of the mine (Mr. Barsby), followed by an
immense retinue of pigmy Kobolds, who stretch,
in picturesque array, diagonally across the stage,
and, considering their tender age and tiny pro-
portions, perform marvellous manoeuvres. This
leads our hero to " A Visit to Elfin Land in the
Crystal Sphere"—a magnificent Turneresque scene,
filled by elves, fairly bedight in gold tissue, who
throw him into a soft bewilderment with their
fairy-like music and mazy dances. This scene was
the first great hit of the evening, and one of the
most successful efforts of Mr. W. Beverley, who
was summoned to the footlights to receive
the enthusiastic congratulatimw of the audience.
Another scene; air* terrlerfrma,. at the gate.of
Trevanion Castle, leads to an incident which
results in Peter Wilkins engaging himself as
cabin boy on board the "good ship Adventurei,"
sailing on some distant voyage to or via the South
Pacific. A storm at sea follows, amusingly diversi-
fied by the introduction of a variety of marine cu-
riosities—such as John Dory, Dogfish, a real mer-
maid, and the original whistling oyster which
delivers itself of an accompaniment obligato of a
well-known air, the name of which we do not at
the moment happen to recollect, with remarkable
fluency and clearness of tone. But the attractive
power of the Loadstone Rock is irresistible ; the
Adventurer is wrecked and goes to .the bottom,
leaving Peter Wilkins perched on the point of a
reef. The transformation scene which now imme-
diately follows completely eclipses the Elfin Land
effect already described, and in many particulars
surpasses any similar effort of stage decorative
structure which we have hitherto seen. It repre-
sents a great gathering of the Winged Women at
the trysting place by the spreading Banian Tree,
with beautifully winged glumms and gwaries de-
scending through the air, in glittering array, in a
grand scene of fairyland, illuminated by rays of
light of varied hues. Here again the audience
were so taken by storm that Mr. Wm. Beverley
was again vociferously called for, and appeared in
obedience to the summons to be overwhelmed by a
perfect hurricane of plaudits. According to the
custom at this theatre we were treated to a double
pantomime company—Harlequins, Messrs. Cormack
and St. Maine ; Columbines, the Misses Gunniss ;
Clowns, Messrs. Huline and R. Power, besides a
little one by young Huline ; Pantaloons, Messrs.
H. Naylor and R. H. Martin. Taken as a whole,
this Christmas pantomime may be pronounced suc-
cessful. The house was crowded in every part
from the very opening of the doors.