The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

PAVILION THEATRE.

After Dibdin Pitt's drama of Wilkie the Weaver, a new
pantomime was presented on Saturday, under the title of
jack Straw's castle, or Harlequin and Dame Durden, and
if the boisterous mirth of the audience may be taken as a
criterion of its merit, the affair must be said to be excel-
lent. Farrell is the inventor, and has availed himself of all
the means peculiar to himself, to do for this piece what is
seldom done for similar pieces now-a-days—he has given not
only something in the shnpe of a plot to the opening, the
developement of which is exceedingly amusing, but he
has likewise contrived to keep up the links of the whole
of the comic scenes, from the transformations to the end.
All the performers exerted themselves to the utmost, and
were rewarded accordingly. T. Hill is a capital clown ;
he is not, perhaps, so fond of attitudinizing as some of his
competitors, but his natural broad and rich humour, and
the peculiarity of his gait, enables him to give an entirety
to the character that others attempt to accomplish in vain.
Miss Rayner's Columbine, though inferior in some points
to that of her predecessor, Miss G. Reekie, who is now at
Drury-lane, is upon the whole deserving of much commen-
dation. Chapino and Toungman filled their respective
parts—Harlequin and Pantaloon—very efficiently. The
new tricks are all effective, and several of them told admi-
rably against some of the new-fangled foibles of the day—
those aimed at " gin-palaces," and the " Mustachio puppy-
ism," were loudly applauded. Of the scenery, particularly
Telbin's, Gordon's, and Brunning's, it is impossible to speak
too highly—a Diorama of the Seasons, and a pictorial view
of Ascot Heath Races, with a view of the Royal party's
arrival at the Grand Stand, are really beautiful productions.
The house was crammed,

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