Event Comment: Benefit for a Family in distress. At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places to be taken of Mr Page at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [A customary notice each night. It will not be repeated further here.

Event Comment: Benefit for Dan. French, Mrs Hyde and Mrs Knowles, Two Ale-Conners Widows. A Concert, etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. 6d. To beg1n at 6

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Norton Amber, formerly a Patentee, & Banker, now Pit Doorkeeper (Cross), late of the Strand (Winston MS 7). Tickets to be had at Mr Pierce's at the Castle Tavern, Corner of Henrietta Street, in Bedford Street, Covent Garden; Mr Frye's a Hosier, the Corner of James Street, Long Acre; King Street Coffee House, near Guild Hall; Batson's Coffee House, Cornhill; and at the Theatre. Places will be taken at the Stage Door of the theatre. This Day publish'd, Young Scarron, at 2s. 6d. sew'd, 3s. bound. Dedicated to the managers of both theatres. "The Stage reproves the follies of the age. For once we'll laugh at Follies of the Stage." Anon. Printed for T. Tyre, near Gray's Inn Holborn and W. Reeve in Fleet St. (General Advertiser). A comical and satirical account of summer strolling players: "When the time draws near that the Theatres Royal disband their troops, or rather grant their furloses till the next Campaign, each private Man becomes an Officer; and they who for nine months before submitted to Monarchical Government, now form themselves into several republicks for the remaining three. Then each Hero takes the path of his own ambition...The various whimsical disputes that arise from this kind of Emulation, are, in part the subject of the following sheets" (173 pp. Written by Thomas Mozeen, Biographia Dramatica). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: By desire. Benefit for a Citizen under misfortunes. A Concert, &c. Tickets may be had of Mr Meredith, housekeeper at the Theatre. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Clerkenwell For One Night Only. A Concert, &c. A ball and Country Dancing afterwards. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s

Event Comment: A Concert, &c. To be concluded by Mrs Mary Midnight and her Family. The Concert to begin at Twelve. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [Repeated in subsequent bills.] Second time of performing

Event Comment: No alterations were made in the farce, but cutting out a little, & it was play'd with great Applause, & given out again with great Clapping. Benefit for Mr Worsdale (Cross). Tickets to be had at the Bedford Coffee House. Part of Pit laid into boxes. We hear that Miss Bellamy, belonging to Drury Lane Theatre, was taken ill on Sunday last, and continues very much indispos'd. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Event Comment: TThe Sorcerer, a Pantomime Entertainment, originally performed at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is preparing, with alterations, at Covent Garden (The scenes painted by Mr Lambert) and will be performed one day next week. [Another letter appeared in the General Advertiser on innocent entertainment for the lower classes (see 29 Jan. 1752), but severely criticized the existence of Prize fights, Cock-pits, and Gambling houses as the real nuisances and nurseries of theft and disorder."] It is whispered that the Townwill shortly be entertained with a phenomenon of the Monosyllable Fun,--the match between Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Kent. and their Lownesses of Grub Street, being certainly to be decided on the Stage; great bets depending on this Battle, it is thought the Knowing ones will be taken in (General Advertiser)

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 7 p.m. [Repeated in subsequent bills.] At the particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Benjamin Hallet, a child of nine Years of age. The Tenth Day. By Gentlemen masked after the manner of Grecian and Roman Comedy. [Not repeated in subsequent bill after this date.] The House to be made very warm and illuminated with wax candles

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We hear that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with Prince Edward will be this night at Covent Garden, to see the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and Harlequin Skeleton. On Tuesday 3 March, will be reviv'd a Tragedy call'd Macbeth (as written by Shakespear) the part of Macbeth by Barry, and Lady Macbeth by Mrs Cibber, being the first time of her appearing in that character. To which will be added the Oracle, a new Dramatic piece (of one act) taken from the French, the Principal Part to be perform'd by Mrs Cibber. Pit and boxes laid together

Event Comment: The Twelfth Day. At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 2s. [Repeated in bills for this theatre.

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Antonio Ambrosia, Operator on the Cremona Staccato, vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box. Tickets delivered for 5 March will be taken. Prices, Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [The fifteenth night.

Event Comment: [If this were the announcement of a bona fide concert, there would be no infraction of the Licensing Act. The singers are not named, as they usually are in advertisements of musical entertainments.] Benefit for Brown. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. No persons to be admitted without tickets

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. By Particular Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Servants admitted to keep places on the Stage. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Play to begin at 6. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen Street, and at the stage door of the theatre. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Eight rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send sevants by 3 p.m. And for their better accommodation the Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will likewise be allow'd to keep Places

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted in seven years [see 7 May 47]. Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber, Esq. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: A Morning's Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. The Oratory given gratis. Benefit Mr James Lowe. To begin At 12 noon. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Event Comment: Benefit for a Tradesman Under Misfortunes. A Concert, &c. To begin at 6. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy. No Building on stage. Part of Pit only [laid into boxes]. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets at her house in Thrift St., Soho. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mad Auretti. Pit and Boxes together & Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mad Auretti at her house in Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Afterpiece: A Dramatic piece of one act taken from the French. Never perform'd before. The characters in it to be newdress'd. Pit and boxes laid together and amphitheatre on stage. Tickets deliver'd for 3 March will be taken. [See, 20 March. The note in Have at you all; or, The Drury Lane Journal (19 March) seems to comment on this performance: Those heroic full-bottomed perukes, whose bushy expanse is spread over the whole back of the wearer, have lately been exploded on the stage, and a more natural, I mean a less enormous covering for the head substituted in its stead. Unfortunately Mr Barry this night chose to appear in one of the most curiously frizzled out and of the fullest tragical flow I ever saw: When in the last act it was our heroes turn to be kill'd, honest Ryan being eager to dispatch him, just as he was to plump down upon the carpet, entangled his hand in the vast profusion of Macbeth's hair; and by jerking back his sword after the concluding stab, away came poor periwig along with it, while our hero was left expos'd, in the last agonies of death-bare headed. Ryan in the meanwhile with some confuconfusion contemplated Full-Bottom, which he held dangling in his hand, but sadly tumbled out of curl; at length he good naturedly adjusted it on the bald pate of the tyrant, who was then enabled to make his dying speech with proper regularity and decorum."

Event Comment: [The twenty-first Day. Pit price reduced to 2s. 6d. Ladies desired to send their servants early.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Toe. Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and Family in Distress. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #250 (Cross)