*p1777 07 23 chr A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Colonel Feignwell-Russell; Freeman-G. Graham; Perriwinkle-Graham; Tradelove-Vowell; Sackbut-Newton; Obadiah Prim-Walters; Sir Philip Modelove-Trotter; Boy-Master Russell; Mrs Prim-Mrs Russell; Betty-Mrs Trotter; Mask'd Lady-Miss Powell; Ann Lovely-Miss Essex.*c1777 07 23 chr [The play was not allowed to conclude, nor was the afterpiece, <i>All the World's a Stage</i>, performed. "Yesterday evening, during the representation of...<i>A Bold Stroke for a Wife</i>, at <i>China Hall</i>, <i>Rotherhithe</i>, a party of the inhabitants, who had laid an information against the performers, rushed into the theatre, behind the scenes, and seized $Mr Russell= (who played the character of <i>Colonel Feignwell</i>r), and carried him, in his stage dress, before $Justice Smith=, at the <i>Rotation-Office</i>, <i>St Bennet's-hill</i>, who committed him to the House of Correction, for further examination this morning" (<i>Morning Chronicle</i>, 24 July). What happened to Russell is not known, but because of this occurrence the theatre did not re-open until the following season, on 25 May 1778. See my article on the history of this unlucky playhouse, <i>Theatre Notebook</i>, VIII, 76-80.]