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Boxing-day is situated so late in the week that it forces our Christmas chronicle into the brevity of a prophecy. Boxing-day is situated so late in the week that it forces our Christmas chronicle into the brevity of a prophecy.
At Drury Lane, the pantomime is founded on that nursery lay of juvenile vicissitude, See-Saw, Margery Daw ; and vaunts the employment of two Harlequins, two Clowns, two Pantaloons, and two Columbines, besides Mr. Beverley's scenery. The popular ballad of the Babes in the Wood furnishes the subject, and Mr. Calcott supplies the scenery to the Haymarket pantomime. Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham, as a Har- lequin and Columbine a la Watteau, repeat at the Adelphi the experi- ment successfully made last year. The Christmas piece, which is a com- pound of burlesque and pantomime, is entitled Mother Shipton. Alad- din, or the Wonderful Lamp, at the Princess's, indicates a well-used theme ; but the pantomime abounds in new tricks, and the decorations are most gorgeous. Mr. Planck% still adhering faithfully to the lady tale- tellers of France, has provided the Olympic with a fairy extravaganza founded on the tale Young and Handsome. The quasi-Byronic ballet Le Corsaire has become a mixture of burlesque and pantomime, that the Lyceum may entertain the holiday-folks. The Fisherman and the Genie at Sadler's Wells proves that the Arabian Nights have not yet lost dramatic vitality. At Astley's, Paul Pry on Horseback presents a singular union of harlequinade and comedy ; and the Surrey resolves to uphold its pantomimic fame by the Genius of the Spring. Mr. Emery, the comedian, celebrates the season:by boldly reopening the semote Maryle- bone ; and Tit, Tat, Toe, is the imposing name of his Christmas spectacle.
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