3-065-599 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Christmas Pantomimes, 1874. London stage productions. [Princess's Theatre:] 'Our Illustration presents a portion of the transformation scene, representative of the realms of night and morning, which is really beautiful. We have, first of all, the appearance of Luna rising in her car, encircled by the Pleiades; next, the breaking of morn, the rising of Aurora, and the ascent of Phoebus in his chariot; dainty devices to which great praise is due. The harlequinade also concludes with a grand picture, entitled "The Regions of the God of Day."...[Standard Theatre:]: 'The subject of the pantomime is...the truly English story of "Whittington and his Cat." Our Illustration shows him sleeping by the stone at Highgate. He is roused from his prophetic slumbers by the female elf, the Fairy Fairweather (Miss Kate Neville)...[Crystal Palace theatre, Sydenham:] '"Puss in Boots" and the adventures of the Marquis of Carabas. Our Illustration is from a principal scene - that, in fact, in which the miller's son is introduced as the Marquis to "Caractacus, the big King of little Brittany" (so called in the playbill)...These characters are supported by Miss Caroline Parkes and Miss Kemp, and admirably do both enact their different roles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.