*p1772 04 22 cg The Refusal; or, The Lady's Philosophy. Sir Gilbert-Yates; Frankly-Wroughton; Granger-Hull; Witling-Dyer; Cook-Dunstall; Lady Wrangle-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Mrs Green; Sophronia-Mrs Lessingham; Charlotte-Miss Macklin; In Act IV, a <i>Minuet</i>-Hamoir, Miss Macklin.*a1772 04 22 cg Love a-la-Mode. ^As17711022^, but Sir Archy-Kniveton(, 1st time); Callaghan-Fox(, 1st time); Groom-Lewes.*d1772 04 22 cg End: A <i>Dance</i> in which will be an <i>Allemande</i>,-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir.*c1772 04 22 cg Benefit for $Miss Macklin=. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 27 Jan. 1770.] Afterpiece: For this night only this season (playbill). Charges #64 5s. Profit to Miss Macklin #19 4s., plus #43 from 172 Box tickets. Paid $Whitefield= one fourth year's salary due <i>Lady Day</i> last #25. Paid $Mr Barber= for a suit of regimentals embroider'd with gold, #12 12s. Paid <i>Lowe and Lucas</i> (linnen drapers) #13 19s.; Paid $Evans= for Spermecita candles as per bill #12. Paid $Barrett= (wax chandler) #3 4s. (Account Book). [Miss Macklin considered this a poor benefit, and on 6 May 1772 wrote to her father about the troubles she met in getting it underway. $Woodward= would not play in the farce since it did not belong to the theatre and since he had not be asked before she put his name in the bills. $Kniveton= labored hard and did quite well as <i>Sir Archy</i>r. $Ann Pitt= so ill she could not do <i>Lady Wrangle</i>r, but $Mrs Hull= sat up two nights, learned the part and acted it creditably (<i>Harvard, Memoirs of Charles Macklin</i>, Vol. II, pt. 2, after p. 55).] Receipts: #83 9s. (Account Book).