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The Adelphi.—The Christmas entertainment at this house is certainly one of the most remarkable of the season. The management here has got together eighteen clever children to play a pantomime which occupies twc-and-a-half hours in the representation, and through it all leaves nothing to be desired. Mr. E. L. Blanchard has written the fairy opening, founding it upon the story of “ Little Goody Two-Shoes and her Sweetheart Little Boy-Blue,” and made it in itself almost a fairy play, it is so full of pretty thoughts, graceful sentiment, and poetry. Surely the little characters he has created and the fairies he has called into being must people his fertile brain, and we might almost suppose that* they come before him in his dreams. Certainly they should from this time forth, and Miss Emilie Gratton should be always Little Goody TwOrShoes, and Master Harry Gratton always Little Boy-Blue. Miss Katie Seymour should be Puck, or some little tricksy dancing sprite, or Colin, the peasant of this pantomime. Miss L. Neville should never be other than the fairy “May,” and, above all, “La Petite Cerito” should never grow older and never be other than premitre danseitse. These are the “good people” in Mr. Blanchard’s edition of this nursery story, and they act and sing and dance with a delicious freshness, and a smile and a laugh which come as they only can from children ; and they mae mention of individual merit, or excellence, very hard. Among the “ bad people ” in this story we have Sir Thomas Gripe, lord of the manor, who pursues Little Goody Two-Shoes, and puts the brokers into her school-house because she refuses to marry Mm; and Sir Timothy is played by Master Barry with wonderful appreciation, expressed in the childish treble and nervous irritability of old age. Johnny Stout (Miss E. Feldon) and Tommy Green (Miss Rosy Smith) must also be mentioned, and Master Wilson, as Graspall, steward to Sir Timothy. For the rest in this fairy “ opening ” we have nothing but praise, and when we have passed from it we are face to face with more children in the “comic business.” Master Bertie Coote as clown, Master Meadows as pantaloon, Miss C. Gilchrist as harlequin, and Miss Carrie Coote as columbine.
Newspaper Details
London Week News
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Dec 30, 1876
Page 7
Full Page
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Nick N.
NA, 14 Nov 2023
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