Edward Leman Blanchard (1820-1889) dominated the pantomime genre on the Victorian stage. Though his name does not appear on this playbill, he wrote the pantomime it advertises - ‘Harlequin Little Dicky Dilver and his Stick of Silver’. The performance, which includes two “Grand Ballets” and incorporated “Popular Airs from the Christy Minstrels” (a well-known black-face group of the day), is also notable for the reference to Darwin: one of the scenes is set in “The Court of Lions in the Darwinian Dominions”.