| Description Of Item | Double page landscape playbill for the entertainment at the Adelphi theatre for the week of 14th January 1839. The headliner is M. [Jean] Bihin, 'the tallest man in the world', who was to play, Al Heirab the title character in a performance of the Giant of Palestine. Other performances include an adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, a minstrel show Jim Crow in his New Place, and a pantomime Harlequin and the Silver Dove.
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