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Christmas Pantomimes: Drury Lane; Haymarket; Princess', 1856. London stage productions. Drury Lane: '...a scene from the ballet, in which Rosina Wright and the strength of the choregraphic corps of this theatre are employed; and, with the advantage of Beverley's painting in some of the greater pictorial scenes, adds the grace of motion to the beauty of form and colour'. Haymarket: '...a ballet interlude...in which Miss Mary Brown, the Columbine, appears in the costume of a Zouave, as the centre of a group of military juveniles, that represent a body of Zouaves and British Grenadiers, who march and countermarch in excellent style'. Princess': '...the Island of Birds...the fairy aviary of Queen Paradisa presents us with a perfect world of love-birds and canaries, with Count Robin Redbreast as lord chamberlain and master of the ceremonies, and a royal body-guard of Goldfinches..'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.