Event Comment: Paid 3 day's salary at #100 12s. 6d. per diem #301 17s. 6d. Salaries short-paid last week #168 8s. 6d.; Tabor and Pipe #3 13s. 6d.
Louchre [
Lauchery] #8 8s.
Mr Abington #2;
Mr King #3; (Treasurer's Book). [
The payment to King was
the first of 37 similar ones for extra salary amounting to #111. That to Mrs Abington was
the first of weekly payments for her clo
thes account, amounting to #60 for
the season. No fur
ther mention will be made of
these items.] Receipts: #265 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [From
the Middlesex Journal (7-9 Oct.) quoted by
Hampden,
Eighteenth Century Journal: "
The Way of the World, though confessedly replete with wit and character, is not
the most entertaining play in representation. It is so full of plot and intrigue, that it demands an Unusual degree of attention in
the performers and audience to excite admiration. On Saturday
they seemed averse to assist
the author. Mr King in
Witwou'd was as entertaining and full of spirits as usual.
Mr Jefferson in
the gay admired
Mirabel (independent of
the antique mode of his wig, and formal cut of his clo
thes, which surely were both uncharacteristic) seemed in attempting to be quite natural, to keep
the entire plot of
the play in his own bosom, looked more like
the fa
ther than
the Mirabel of
Congreve.
Mr Reddish was a contrast to his friend Mirabel; he seemed attentive nervous, and played
the latter part of his character well....Mrs Abington's person, manner and dress were fashionable and elegant; but though
the character was certainly a fine one,
there was a want of that spirit best calculated to call her powers into action: her delivery was tediously formal; and had
the audience been deprived of
their sight
they would conclude that
Capt. Bobadill had got into petticoats. Her dress was no more decent than
Madam Hidou's was on her first appearance last year; stays so low cut before puts modesty to
the blush; and will not be countenanced by an
English audience, though made after
the French fashion....
Mrs Greville, to convince
the town that she could keep a secret, whispered it to only a few friends in
the Pit....her indifference is intolerable, and should be noticed by her employer."