*p1789 04 15 cg He Wou'd be a Soldier. Captain Crevelt-Lewis; Sir Oliver Oldstock-Quick; Caleb-Edwin; Col. Talbot-Aickin; Mandeville-Farren; Count Pierpoint-Wewitzer; Wilkins-Fearon; Johnson-Bernard; Amber-Thompson; Harriet-Mrs Wells; Mrs Wilkins-Mrs Rock; Lady Oldstock-Mrs Webb; Nancy-Miss Rowson; Betty-Miss Stuart; Charlotte-Mrs Pope.*a1789 04 15 cg Aladin. ^As17890127^.*c1789 04 15 cg By Command of $Her Majesty=. [This was the first time that members of the royal family had appeared in public since the beginning of the $King='s illness (his first attack of insanity) in November 1788. See also 21, 24 Apr.] The drop curtain with the <i>King's arms</i> on it shown when the front curtain first rose was the "original curtain exhibited on the opening of <i>Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre</i> [in 1714]...It has lain by in the scene-room of <i>Covent-Garden theatre</i> nearly seventy years, but was rescued from oblivion, retouched, and the appropriate ornaments added for the occasion" (<i>Public Advertiser</i>, 16 Apr.). On the $Queen='s entrance "the house called for <i>God save the King</i>, and the theatre being prepared, the song was immediately sung by $Bannister=, $Johnstone=, and $Darley=, the house joining in the chorus. It was encored...At the end of the play [it] was again called for, and again sung twice. At the end of the pantomime it was again called for; and the theatre not sending forward the performers, the audience cheerfully sung it for themselves; and having sung, they encored themselves; so that altogether it was sung six times in the course of the evening. Her Majesty had a bandeau of black velvet, on which were set in diamonds the words 'Long live the king.' The $princesses= had bandeaus of white satin, and 'Long live the king' in gold" (<i>Universal Magazine</i>, Apr. 1789, p. 218). Receipts: #388 16s. 6d. (385.12.0; 3.4.6).