The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL.
014 THURSDAY EVENING next, the 26th inst.,
the Performances will commence with
DON CIEZAR.
liter RhDon C4e. sar Mr. Barry Sullivan.
will be produced an entirely New and Original
tkidm'inAND COMIC CHRISTMAS ,
on a Lancashire Legend, and illustrated PANTOMIME by Local
Scenery, entitled
----'1,61111N AND THE CHILD OF HALE ;
LNG -F THE RED NOSE'S AND THE LIVER QUEEN.
With New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, Properties.
tiltOne„,_ Tricks and Transformations.
mug and Story of the Pantomime written and invented
slit )4.,,PEpressly for this Theatre by COUSIN JOE.
jrra`meY Overture and Music of the Opening composed and
Istnie"geu expressly for this Theatre by NIARGERY'S S(EBB.
beemSettee,",e_rY of the Pantomime painted by Mr..DEAELOVE.
41, Machinery by Mr. B. JONES', the Properties and Masks
Ole tr. IM`Cnum ; the Dresses by Mr. JEFFERIES.
tis 4siness of the Harleqainade by Signor BOLEN°,
the Whole of the Pantomime produced under his imme-
diate superintendence and direction.
.. M. Milano. I Columbine..,..Madame Boleno.
•• Herr Cole. I Clown. H. Boleno.

Illtlegnin
PautaloOi

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,t14,„13,14yRuE LEGEND OF yg CHILD OF HALE.
anaTld various are the,sfories concerning the Child of
tliteo'4,is marvellous greaf proportionsi. but some years ago,
rik4elialTing of certain.--black letter MS. in an.oaken chest at
t , the true tate, which is of great antiquity, came to
I" runs thus :—Once upon a time there was a King,
Slt `autte was beneath the rocks of the Redde Noses, and
eitiaire still extant, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. He
tanot;•Konkey the Great, King of ye Redde Noses, and was
Tow`,,eusf Proserpina, the Liver Queen, on whose domain
LrOst.„," of Liverpool now standeth upon, and the name of
vett ga foretold the prosperity in after time of this now
t1t.tit,..141 Prosperous seaport. The Queen did rejcct this King's
,tiereat in his rage he was resolved to have revenge. The
loloißtsving promised ye Dame of Hale to be godmother to
ll soi_me, in return for a kindness done to the Queen by
'Totes the cllVAikgeryowdiud contrive, rmivue;i
swtietrh within help
adnelillges,nry
kcafter his birth, 'even to the ?ength of nine feet three
~,. and to the Bate discomfiture of ye mother and ye
qi4 cal hut the latter, in•order to frustrate the King's malice,
Use ye Child to appear as a goodlie man, and became
it,,,±red of the beauty of Speke Hall. Therefore, instead of
%.:Luster ye Child was made through the spite of the King,
titTter of Love did cause him to be a fine and comlie person,
17‘1;if represented in his effizie at the Village of Hale. It is
,Sh`u, after many changes and changes, he was united to ye
Hof his lose, arid appeared at Court.

AVez._ ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
ph 'see 4- Manager, Mr. .W. R. Copeland, 15, Gt Charlotte-St.
THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 24th
instant, the wonderful Performances of
- NCONI'S CIRQUE NATIONAL DE FRANCE.

ti!IC/NIS jEUIt BASTIEN FRANCONI, the Proprietor of
ZAational de France, in introducing his Company Lefore
11-tioTerPool Public, pledges himself that the same unwearied
1e
I,lrerns will be made during this season to gratify the ad-
tOtispe
_f °
(1- ciuestrian Amuseents that have gained for his
ting-uished celebrity in the principal cities of the
a
-gent.

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