The production of "Cricket on the Hearth" described in the story "The Prompter's Daughter" by was probably based on this Dec. 1845 production at the (see the little baby in the back?)

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A picture -- this is a Dick Whittington and his Cat at the in 1845.

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Here is a better inadvertent find - beloved husband and wife comedy team, the Keeleys, starring in an adaptation of Dickens' Christmas story "The Battle of Life" at the in 1846. Mowatt later worked with the Keeleys at the Marylebone and the Olympic.

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