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    CHARACTERS IN THE INTRODUCTION.

    EPITIMARUS THE GREAT, (King of the Ebony Isles—a country not half so black as it is painted)

  • Mr. Jas. Bland.

    • AL KUTITPHAT, (an Officer attached to the Court, probably Prime Minister, or Butler, or something)

  • Mr. A. Brindal.

    • JARJARHEES, (“The Son of the Daughter of Eblis,” a Genie or Phantasm Captain)

  • Mr. Chas. Selby.

    • THE PRINCESS GULNARE

  • Mrs. L. S. Buckingham.

    • A CABMAN, (from the lowest Ranks)

  • Master Caulfield.

    CHARACTERS IN THE DRAMA.

    PRINCE AGIB, (the “Second Calender” of history, who, having no name in the original legend, has taken the nearest he could lay his hand on; a Prince of a Fellow, afterwards an Ape of the Dead Sea) by

  • Miss Annie Romer (her first appearance at this theatre), and Mr. Lebarr (“The same to him and many of them.”)

    The above has been found such a remarkably strong part as to require two people to play it.

    • CODJA, (a more than ordinarily virtuous Woodcutter, distantly related, it is thought, to the Codjas, of Codja's Hall. A Solemnly-Constituted Impostor, subsequently a Melodious Windbag)

  • Mr. Buckstone.

    • THE PRINCESS GULNARE, (whom the audience will be delighted to see again)

  • Mrs. L. S. Buckingham.

    • JARJARHEES, (whom they won't)

  • Mr. Chas. Selby.

    • ZUBEYDEH, (his Maid of All-work, and hitherto no Play, this being the first she has appeared in)

  • Mrs. Fitzwilliam.

    • CRANBOURN ALI, (Rajah of Mulligatawney, an Indian Compound, “made of pepper and that sort of thing”)

  • Mr. James Bland, Whose inexhaustible dignity renders him fully equal to any two monarchs.

    Note.—As the joke of Mr. Bland, in this character, representing at the same time at Injiu and a Buffer, is sure to be made by somebody, the Authors think they may as well make it at once and get it over.

    • DOST YMILLAH, (a Purolind and Opaque Flunkey)

  • Mr. Caulfield.

    • FALDERAL LAL SINGH

  • Mr. Clark.

    • AMEER STIKH

  • Mr. Coe.

    • THE PRINCESS ZAIDE, surnamed THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY, (the Rajah's talented and spirited Daughter—in every sense of the word a charming woman; projectress of the grand Mulligatawney Industrial Exhibition, and Pretty-fellow of the Royal College of Fairies

  • Miss P. Horton.

    • SWEETLIPS AND TIFFIN, (her Fairy Secretaries)

  • Miss Woulds, and Miss A. Woulds.

    • THE SMALLEST PART IN THE PIECE

  • Miss Caulfield.

    • Guards, Flunkies, Plebeians, Phantasms, Paper Lanterns, Stump Orators, &c., &c.

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