*p1765 12 03 cg She Wou'd and She Wou'd not; or, The Kind Imposter. Manuel-Shuter; Philip-Ross; Octavio-Gardner; Soto-Dunstall; Trappanti-Woodward; Lewis-Davis; Corrigidor-Wignel; Diego-Costollo; Rosara-Mrs Mattocks; Flora-Mrs Vincent; Viletta-Mrs Pitt; Hypolita-Miss Macklin.*a1765 12 03 cg The Royal Chace. ^As17651113^.*c1765 12 03 cg [$R$Ross= this month wrote to $Colman= (<i>Harvard Theatre Collection A.L.S.</i>) inquiring about an intended new $theatre at Bath=, and opened his heart as follows: "My present situation is most irksome to me and must be to any gentleman or man of merit in his profession to have such an ignorant and now ill-bred fellow as $Beard?= presume to conduct the business of a theatre Royal, of which he is totally ignorant, and oblig'd to apply to the great $Gibson=, who naturally wishes to lower every man to his own standard, while the other despises every degree of merit that is not compris'd in Sol fa and wishes the theatre only to substitute as an Opera house." Ross wanted to be nominated for the manager's postition in the new theatre at Bath. N.B. He had already acted 23 times this season in his best parts.]