SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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Event Comment: The Twenty-seventh Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Twenty-eighth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Twenty-ninth Day. Being the last Morning's Performance

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirtieth Day. To begin at 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-first Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-second Day. To begin at 6:30 p.m. [Published this month, A Catalogue of Curiosities, Chiefly Theatrical which are to be sold by Auction. Dedicated to Foote by Peter Skewball. A twenty-two-page pamphlet containing suggestive comments about certain actresses. "Lot 13 Two young Actresses of different complections, who having been two years under the care of a certain physician are warranted sound, very little the worse for use...Lot 33 a Coquet Crying by Mrs C-; Lot 34 A Venus half naked at See Saw by Mrs W-; Lot 35 A Very Stanch actress, somewhat overfed, and of great Virtue (Mrs Pritchard?)." N.B.: This is the greatest curiosity in the Catalogue.

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-third Day. By Desire

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-fourth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: The Thirty-sixth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: At Bridges, Cross, Burton and Vaughan's Great Theatrical Booth in the George Inn Yard, will be presented an Historical Drama never acted before call'd The Northern Heroes; or, The Bloody Contest between Charles XII, King of Sweden, and Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, with the Loves of Count Gillensternia, a Swedish General and the Fair Elimira, a Russian Princess, Containing the most remarkable Events of that Time; and concluding with the Memorable Battle of Pultowav, and Charles's Retreat into the Turkish Dominionv. Interspers'd with a Comic Interlude (never perform'd before) called The Volunteers; or, the Adventures of Roderick Random and his Friend Strap. Also the Comical Humours and Amours of Corporal Garbage and Serjeant Slim, with Mrs Vanspriggen the Swedish Sutler's Widow; the merry Pranks of her foolish son Janny, and several other diverting incidents. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at Twelve o'clock. [This notice repeated during "the short Time of the Fair." Notice repeated 24, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Heros

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers or The Adventures of Roderick Random and his Friend Strap

Dance: Mr Shawford, Mrs Shawford, Master Cross, Mrs Vaughan

Event Comment: An Opera. At Phillips' Booth. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. To begin at Twelve each Day. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Lovers Or The Gamester Bit

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive or the Sallee Rover

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates Sen and Jun great Theatrical Booth...will be reviv'd that celebrated Droll, call'd The Unnatural Parents; or, The Fair Maid of the West. Shewing the Manner of her being forced to wander from Home, by the Cruelty of her Parents and beg her Bread; and directs her to a Nobleman's House: How she was there taken in as a Servant; and, at length, for her Beauty and modest Behaviour, married to a Gentleman of great Fortune; with her Return to her Parents, and their happy Reconciliation. Also the Comical Humours and Adventures of Trusty her Father's Man, and the three Witches. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely new; and the Droll the same that was perform'd by Mrs Lee 15 Years ago with great Applause. Boxes: 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at Twelve o'Clock. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents

Dance: The original Dance-Three Wild Cats of the Wood; Between the Acts: Dancing-Adams, Mrs Ogden

Music: A Good Band of Musick

Event Comment: By Desire, at his Auction Room, late the New Theatre in the Haymarket, Mr Foote will exhibit a Choice Collection of Pictures, all warranted Originals, with some entire new Lots. Places for boxes to be taken at the Auction Room. The Thirty-ninth Day. The auction to begin at exactly half an hour after six

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

Event Comment: The Fortieth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child

Event Comment: Forty-first day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Forty-second Day. By Desire

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Dance: A Dance in Character-

Event Comment: Forty-third Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Forty-fourth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Forthy-fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Forty-sixth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Forty-seventh Day. Being the last Time of performing it this Season

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: A Dramatick Satire call'd Lethe is now in Rehearsal at Drury Lane and will be acted in a few days (by Desire). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 14s. 6d. (Powel)

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Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: As17481226

Dance: As17481226; the Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Forty-eighth Day. Being positively the last time of performing it this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Benefit for Lock Hospital. Forty-ninth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures