Jack and Gill

The pantomime “furnishes a particularly good entertainment for children.”

“Mr. Fox is prospering at the Museum, and the Museum never was pleasanter than it is under the auspices of Mr. Fox. ‘Jack and Gill’ has been produced there and has delighted everybody who has been wise enough to go and see it. The scenery is good, the acting is good, the incidents are comic, and the fun of the pantomime never flags. Nothing in the piece needs mending except the speeches in rhyme that are pronounced by the Sea-King and the Spirit of the Sun. These halt at times, and often rhyme imperfectly. It would be easy to make them sound, and it would be worthwhile—for as the old proverb says, what is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” [The plot is explained in some detail.] Great credit is due to the scenic artists, Mr. Hailge (?) and his assistants, the machinists; Mr. Crane and assistants, and to Mr. Walker and Mr. Cutler, costumer and superintendents of properties for the graphic and lively stage effects of this pantomime, which will be presented every afternoon and evening until further notice, and should be seen by all lovers of mirth.”