Event Comment: Receipts: #154 19s. (87.1; 65.6; 2.12)

Event Comment: The School for Scandal [advertised on playbill of 1 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the sudden indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #176 15s. 6d. (96.0.0; 78.6.6; 2.9.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #172 18s. (84.6; 86.5; 2.7)

Event Comment: The Rivals [advertised on playbill of 4 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the indisposition of a principal performer. "There seems to be a perverse and impolitic system introduced of late years in the management of this theatre, in virtue of which certain plays are suffered to remain in a state of slovenly representation, to serve as a kind of stage lumber, on which the manager can immediately lay his hand (confident of a good half-price, from the popularity of his after-piece); he wants something, no matter what, to fill up the intermediate space of time. This is a system, however, which in the event cannot fail to prove equally injurious to the interest of the proprietors, and the gratification of that part of the audience who pay the full amount of admission" (Dramatic Censor, I, 45). Receipts: #188 5s. (102.16; 83.17; 1.12)

Event Comment: Receipts: #217 14s. (123.11.6; 92"3.6; 1.19.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 19s. 6d. (115.13.6; 84.3.6; 1.2.6)

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Humourist, advertised on playbill of 11 Jan.] Receipts: #365 14s. (276.16.0; 87.14.6; 1.3.6)

Event Comment: Receipts: #232 8s. 6d. (139.5.0; 90.16.6; 2.7.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #300 7s. (207.15.0; 86.17.6; 5.14.6)

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 13s. 6d. (101.4.0; 76.18.0; 1.11.6)

Event Comment: "It constitutes a kind of literary paradox, by what strange fatality the man whose mental powers are competent to produce an original drama like the Wheel of Fortune could ever be the author, in any shape whatever, of such a vile, incongruous mass of absurdity as Joanna [cg, 16 Jan.]" (Dramatic Censor, I, 151). Receipts: #188 (146.1.6; 40.16.6; 1.2.0)

Event Comment: "Barrymore was more imperfect in his part than on the first night of representation [see 25 Jan.]. When he attempted to announce the Play for repetition a violent opposition arose, which lasted upwards of a quarter of an hour, before he was permitted to speak: (Dramatic Censor, I, 182). Receipts: #370 13s. 6d. (246.10.0; 121.13.6; 2.10.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #266 (160.10.6; 102.11.6; 2.18.0)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "Towards the conclusion [of afterpiece, Miss DeCamp] fell with Kelly, while in the act of running down the stage; her head striking with so much violence against the boards that she fainted away [having received a severe contusion that necessitated surgery]" (Morning Herald, 8 Feb.). It is to be hoped that the events of Thursday Evening will prove a wholesome warning to the servants of the Theatre, and enforce the necessity of sweeping the stage with greater care. The disaster, it seems, originated in the peel of an orange, which the Copper Captain [in mainpiece] throws away" (Dramatic Censor, I, 210). Receipts: #591 19s. (525.13.6; 63.5.6; 3.0.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #142 11s. (70.15.6; 69.7.6; 2.8.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #463 12s. (404.6; 58.1; 1.5)

Event Comment: Receipts: #126 5s. (59.14; 63.5; 3.6)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Clarke as Thoroughgood, but "Hull performed Thoroughgood instead of Clarke, who was suddenly taken ill" (London Chronicle, 15 Apr.). In afterpiece the playbill assigns Camazin to Clarke; his substitute is not named.] Receipts: #365 12s. (280.13; 82.12; 2.7)

Event Comment: Receipts: #322 15s. (235.3; 83.6; 4.6)

Event Comment: Receipts: #357 16s. 6d. (253.10.0; 99.11.0; 4.15.6)