Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1869 for performance at Drury Lane. Partly printed (n.d.). The first part of the script (folios 1-14) consists of printed pages cut from their original format and pasted into a notebook. Comic scenes, which are entirely manuscript, included separately in folio...
Performance bill for Astley's Theatre, the lessee of the theatre noted as Mr W. H. C. Nation. Plays and performances advertised include The Wonderful Trained Elephant, 'A Terrible Tinker' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.
The Yellow Dwarf, or, Harlequin Cupid and the King of the Gold Mines, by H. J. Byron.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 24 December 1869 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed (n.d.). A covering letter from the theatre manager to Mr W. B. Donne, dated 24 December 1869, is included on folio i. A playbill of forthcoming attractions being performed at Covent Garden over Christmas 1869 is ...
'St George and the dragon, or, Old Father Time and the seven champions of Christendom', by W. R. Osman.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 23 December 1869 for performance at the Surrey. The attribution of the play to W. R. Osman is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being noted on the script.
Manuscript notes for scenes 2 and 3 of a play on folios 1 and 2. The pages being separated at some point from the play to which they originally belonged. The bottom section of a printed performance bill with the words 'Furnished Apartments' is included on folio 3.
Burlesque. Licence sent 23 December 1869 for performance at the Alfred (also known, formerly and subsequently, as the Marylebone). Prompt copy. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for disparaging remarks about policemen be omitted in performance on the grounds that they 'stigmatise an entire body o...
'Jack and the beanstalk and Jack the giant killer, or, Harlequin Seven Champions of Christendom', by J. T. Douglass.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 23 December 1869 for performance at the Standard. The dramatist is not named on the script but is noted as being the author of 'Pat a cake', 'Dame Durden', 'Oranges and Lemons' and 'Tell tale tit'. The play is not listed in Nicoll.
'Harlequin Jack and the beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood and the wicked wolf', by R. Soutar.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 23 December 1869 for performance at the East London. Mr Morris Abrahams noted above the details of the theatre on folio 1. The attribution of the play to R. Soutar is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the script.