SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C ")') 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: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King, The Duke and The Princess Amelia (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #169 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Benefit Sir John (General Advertiser). Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. 6d. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: 1 By Command (General Advertiser). Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princes George and Edward, and The Lady Augusta (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #171 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17461025, but Edging-Mrs Clive (General Advertiser).

Dance: TThe German Camp, as17461217; The Vintage, as17461217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Performance Comment: [Film of General Advertiser missing, but see17470103] .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Furnival; Page-Wignell; Shallow-Dove; Slender-Cushing; Falstaff-Paget; Host-W. Hallam; Fenton-Lee; Evans-L. Hallam; Pistol-Brett; Robin-Master Morgan; Simple-Miles; Rugby-Baker; Ann Page-Mrs Moreau; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bambridge; Dr Caius-Shuter; Mrs Page-Mrs Hallam; Bardolph-Hallam Sen (Daily Advertiser: G. Hallam); Mrs Ford-Mrs Cushing.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: 1 GGeneral Advertiser: Mademoiselle Violette humbly begs leave to acquaint the Publick, that she is very much concern'd to hear that she is charg'd with having been the occasion of the Noise at the Playhouse in Drury Lane on Wednesday night. That she was entirely ignorant that three Dances had been advertised, until it was too late to prepare herself; and as she cannot possibly be guilty of any Intention to disoblige, or give offence to an English Audience (from whom she has receiv'd so much Applause) she presumes to hope they will not impute to her a fault which she is not capable of committing, and especially where she has met with so much indulgence, for which she retains all possible gratitude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Performance Comment: As17470115, but only Hotspur, King, Wales, Fatstaff, Glendower, and Kate listed. [Probably to make room for Mlle Violette's Apology, see below.]

Dance: 1 TThe German Camp, as17461217; The Vintage, as17461217

Event Comment: New Dresses and Decorations for the dances (General Advertiser). [See commentary on the two Dances, 22 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Dance: Two Entertainments-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Muilment, Sga Padouana, Cook, 1st appearance that stage

Event Comment: At the Cole-Hole. By Gentlemen, for their Diversion. [No prices. No time.] This Evening.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17461209, but Melissa-_; Kitty Pry-Miss Budgell (Daily Advertiser).

Dance: As17461124; Hornpipe-Williams

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. All for Love is oblig'd to be deferr'd 'till Monday, on account of The Provok'd Husband's being desir'd.--General Advertiser, 30 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Cook, Padouana, Salomon's Son

Event Comment: AAll for Love is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Woffington.--General Advertiser

Performances

Event Comment: By Desire of Several Persons of Quality (General Advertiser). Benefit Garrick as author of the farce. Charges #60. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #166 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

Event Comment: All for love obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Woffington's Indisposition. [Notice in General Advertiser lists Macbeth and The Double Disappointment for tomorrow, but no bill appears on 6 Feb.

Performances

Event Comment: Ladies desired to send servants by three o'clock to keep places [a customary note for the run of this play]. Author's Night. Charges #60. (Account Books, Egerton 2268.) [No announcement of a benefit performance in the General Advertiser.] Receipts: #197

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: Author's 2nd benefit [but no announcement of it in General Advertiser]. Charges #60 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #174 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: Author's 3rd benefit. [No notice in the General Advertiser.] Charges #60. Receipts: #199 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: On Monday will be publish'd The Suspicious Husband, a Comedy as it is acted at Covent Garden. Written by Dr Hoadly. Published for J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper in the Strand.--General Advertiser. Receipts: #114 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Event Comment: [No performance listed in Account Books, Egerton 2268. General Advertiser missing, but Occasional Oratorio was scheduled to be given in the advance notice for 12 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Occasional Oratorio

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. Tickets deliver'd for Monday the 9th will be taken. Tickets to be had of Delane at his lodgings at the Unicorn in New Exchange Row in the Strand. Places of Hobson at the stage door. There is now in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal [dl] and speedily will be acted, a new Petit Piece in imitation of that species of writing on the French Theatre call'd The Suspicious Husband Criticiz'd; or the Plague of Envy (General Advertiser). [A Folger edition of 1750 entitled Chorus for Shakespear's Tragedy of King John lists songs by Sullivan, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Storer, and Mrs Mozeen; the play had no other performance at a London theatre in the interim between 1747 and 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17470314

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. [Receipts: #61 6s., plus #141 8s. from tickets, amounting to a house of #202 14s. without Stage (Account Books, Egerton 2268), i.e., perhaps, without counting income from those invited by Mrs Pritchard to sit on the stage.] Note: The Amphitheatre used on the stage at Benefits will be enclosed and divided into distinct Boxes, with a ceiling and illuminated; in the same manner as those in Front of the House. Ladies are desired to send their servants by Three.--General Advertiser. [House charges were #60.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17461231

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Farce never before acted. Tickets to be had of Macklin at his House in Bow St; and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken for the Boxes.--General Advertiser. [Afterpiece by Charles Macklin.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticized or The Plague of Envy

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Quin. Receipts: #88 13s., plus #136 15s. from tickets. [Garrick had written Quin he was too ill to play in the mainpiece but would act in his farce. Notice of 23 March about Amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for 9 March will be taken. To prevent mistakes none will be admitted into the Boxes but by tickets deliver'd by Quin, and at the Office in the Box Lobby.--General Advertiser. If any Gentlemen or Ladies shall be displeased with the alteration in the Performance of the Play [i.e., Garrick's absence] the money shall be return'd.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

Event Comment: [G+General Advertiser, 20 April: The Play of Henry V and the new farce which were to have been acted of Friday the 24th for Mrs Macklin's benefit are necessarily deferred until farther notice--which will be inserted in this paper.

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Letter in the General Advertiser in appreciation of the elegant fireworks displayed at the New Wells, Goodman's Fields, this evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticised

Song: I: Cantata-Sullivan; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; V: Comic Dance, as17470410