Event Comment: To begin at seven. The Manager proposes to perform every day this week

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Event Comment: To begin each Day (for the short time of the Fair) at One o'clock, and end at Eleven. At Yates's Great Theatrical Concert Hall, in the Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. Performed by a company of Comedians from both Theatres. Prices for this droll: Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. There is a commodious way to the Boxes and Pit at the upper end of Cow Lane (Public Advertiser). [This may be an advance notice. It appears again on Th., F., S., and Mon. (Sept. 3, 4, 5, 7).

Event Comment: Mainpiece: (The Hope of the Earth) performed last June in Honour of the King's Birth Day, but now with some alterations. Afterpiece: (The Promises of Heaven) an entirely new Serenata writ in order to celebrate, as far as lies in Sga Mattei's power, the late Royal Nuptials, and approaching Coronation. The Nobility and Gentry will please to dispense with their servants not being admitted this night

Event Comment: A new Droll at Warner's Great Theatrical Booth, on the Bowling Green. Each day during the time of Southwark Fair at twelve o'clock

Event Comment: Balance brought over #419 7s. Of the receipts #11 came from the Boxes. Rec'd of Mr Laluze for 5 days salary to the 18th inst., he being discharged of the of the company,-#3. Expenses in addition to the regular ones: Chorus singers #3 1s.; License for the Lyar #2 2s. Receipts: #89 8s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #19. Paid salary list as usual #245 12s. with the additions of 3 Oct. LaLauze re-entered at 12s. Per day. Miss Miller and Miss Twist added at 5s. and 3s. 4d. respectively. Paid Lupino for making dance dresses #12 14s. 11d. Bought a crimson water'd Tabby gown and coat trimmed with silver at #30. Receipts: #72 15s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire of several Persons of Quality. Coronation: By Desire. The sudden indisposition of a Principal performer has oblig'd the managers to postpone the second night of All in The Wrong for a few days

Event Comment: Full Prices. None admitted behind scenes. [Both pieces advertised regularly for three days in advance.] Income from Boxes #95 15s. Expenses #44 17s. 8d. Including #5 11s. extra for Coronation: viz. 2 men at 10s. 6d. each, chorus singers &c. eleven more at 5s. including Dibdin; 6 Trumpets and 1 fife at 5s. Receipts: #244 7s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: The new Comic Opera Bertoldo will be performed Tuesday next instead of Monday being the day appointed to celebrate the Queen's birthday

Event Comment: Not acted in 5 years. [See 4 Feb. 1758.] The Drummer was revived at this period at both theatres...to take advantage of the reigning weakness of the people, who went in crowds many days and nights to an Haunted House, by what was called the Cock-Lane Ghost-a delusion set on foot, and very ingeniously carried on by a girl of 12 years of age, daughter of a clerk of St Sepulchre's Church, who resided in Cock Lane near Smithfield. [The Ghost was supposed to be that of one Fanny, a gentleman's mistress buried in the church. By knockings and scratchings she supposedly haunted the girl intimating foul practices concerning her death.] It would be incredible to relate the numbers of persons of distinction that attended this delusion! many of whom treated it as a serious and most important affair...at last the girl's father and three or four others were tried in the King's Bench, found guilty' Pillioried and imprisoned. This most effectively laid the Ghost; and is the best and properest cure for every ghost that may arise hereafter. (Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 18 ff). [The theme exploited again by Garrick in The Farmer's Return from London, dl 20 March.

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. No persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at Half an Hour after Four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six

Event Comment: This day publish'd Semele set to Music by Mr Handel. Price 1s. As it is performed this evening at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Printed for J & R. Tonson in the Strand

Event Comment: A Burletta, Benefit for Sg & Sga Paganini, [Who] being desirous of returning to Italy...take this Opportunity to express their most grateful Sense of the many Favours with which they have been honoured in this Kingdom; and being willing that the Necessitous should share in that Bounty which they owe more to the Generosity of the English Nation than to their own Merits, they have allotted a fourth part of the Profits which may arise from the above Burletta (free from all Expense whatever) towards the carrying on and extending the Utility of the Asylum or House of Refuge for Female Orphans...and another Part of the aforesaid Profits will be given towards relieving old Signor Cataneo, who, during forty Years was useful to the Operas, but is now in extreme Distress; and the Manager, who is at the Expence of this Benefit, has chearfully consented to the Disposition here mentioned. As it is intended to apply the whole Profits which may arise from letting out the Servants Gallery [at 2s. 6d. each person] for the Benefit of the Asylum, over and above what was before alloted to it, 'tis humbly hoped that the Nobility, Gentry, etc. will not take it amiss if their Servants are not admitted that Night, as has been the Practice at this Theatre on Occasions of Charity. Tickets will delivered out for this Benefit, this day at the Opera Office, and signed by Mr Crawford, and all Monies given for Tickets above their usual Price, is to be shared in the Charity abovementioned. Tickets delivered for 23 March will be taken

Event Comment: MMr Foote's Oratorical Lectures will be continued in the New Theatre in the Haymarket this day, between Twelve and One noon. [In six parts]: 1. Oratory in general, 2. Its utility demonstrated from its universality, 3. Distinct species of oratory, 4. The present practice peculiar to the English, 5. Necessity of an Academy, 6. The propriety of appointing the author perpetual professor. The whole to be illustrated in apt instances by a set of pupils long trained to the art, one of which is amazing proof of the force of Genius when properly cultivated (Public Advertiser). [These lectures were given 36 times and referred thereafter this season as The Orators.

Event Comment: To begin at one o'clock. Places for the boxes to be taken at the Theatre. The Fourth Day

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Event Comment: The sixth Day. To be continued Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. [Note in Public Advertiser Thursday 13 May: "Mr Foote's lecture is postponed to the 15th in order to prepare the pupils for an exhibition in some particular branches of oratory not yet touched upon."

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Event Comment: The ninth Day