*p1701 03 21 dg The Judgment of Paris. Congreve lists: Juno-Mrs Hodgson; Pallas-Mrs Bowman; Venus-Mrs Bracegirdle.*c1701 03 21 dg [[By $William Congreve=. Premiere.] Congreve wrote on 26 March: I wished particularly for you on Friday last, when $Eccles= his music for the prize was performed in <i>Dorset Garden</i>, and universally admired. $Mr Finger='s is to be to-morrow; and $Russel= and $Weldon='s follow in their turn....The number of performers, besides the verse-singers, was 85. The front of the stage was all built into a concave with deal boards; all which was faced with tin, to increase and throw forwards the sound. It was all hung with sconces of wax-candles, besides the common branches of lights usual in the playhouses. The boxes and pit were all thrown into one; so that all sat in common; and the whole was crammed with beauties and beaux, not one scrub being admitted. The place where formerly the music used to play, between the pit and the stage, was turned into <i>White's chocolate-house</i>v....Our friend <i>Venus</i>r performed to a miracle; so did $Mrs Hodgson= <i>Juno</i>r. Mrs Boman was not quite so well approved in <i>Pallas</i>r.-Congreve to $Keally=, in Congreve, I, 71-72.