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16199 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. <span class=
We found 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6126
13 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. [See dl, 17 March 1737, for a performance once intended for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste Or The Guardians

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Song: In: the usual Songs-Mrs Clive, Beard; particularly The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive, Beard; The Beaux Lamentation-Mrs Clive, Beard for the Loss of Faranelli; The Provident Damsel-Mrs Clive, Beard

Dance: III: Two Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

6127
15 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan, Boxkeeper, and Gwinn's Widow, late Pit Doorkeeper. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; III: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: III: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

6128
16 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Banks, Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Pantomime-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

6129
17 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Miss Brett. Afterpiece: Not Acted these Twenty-five Years. A Comical Tragedy of two short Acts. Decorated with proper Cloaths, Scenes, Musick, and Attendants. [Tickets at Chetwood's Lodgings, Blue Door, in Maiden Lane, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queans With the odd Humours of little Alexander the Great

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; II: A new Sailor's Dance-Phillips; III: Dance of Turks-Muilment; End I Afterpiece: Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; II: Drunken Peasant (for the Entertainment of Alexander)-Phillips; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; with Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge, his first appearance here

6130
18 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson, Beckham, Allen, Miss Cole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Milward
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; IV: La Pieraite-Livier, Mrs Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Lilliputians

Song: III: Beard

6131
18 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Yates, Bowcher, Mrs Elmy, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: P Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

6132
19 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez and Wright. Tickets for Tyldesley also taken. Tickets at Leviez's, next Door to Boar's Head in Henrietta Street, cg; of Wright, Golden Bull in Stanhope-Street, near lif

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

6133
22 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Vallois and the two Misses Scot, Scholars to Vallois. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scot; II: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, Minuet, with new Ball Dance called The Princess of Saxe Gotha-Vallois, Miss Scot; III: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Leviez, Mrs Thompson, Rector, Miss Brett, Pelling, Mrs Vallois

6134
23 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under misfortunes. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; III: Punch-Master Ferg; IV: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scott

6135
25 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman (of a Baronet's Family) now under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Minuet, The Bretagne-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; V: La Pierraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson

6136
27 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written b9 Ben Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

6137
29 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bradshadow (Boxkeeper) and Moor (Box Bookkeeper). Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Grand Ballet, in Comic Characters, -the Lilliputians

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Life of a Beau-

Music: II: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

6138
30 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Marshall, Gray, Peploe, Rumball (Boxkeeper), Bishop (Gallery Keeper). Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere by the late Mrs Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; II: La Pieraite-Leviez, Miss Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Song: III: Beard

6139
21 July 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. [Advertised in Daily Advertiser only.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

6140
08 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Wm. Spragg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

6141
06 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Plowman. By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Discovery

Song: Roberts; Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

6142
11 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: Roberts

Music: Select Pieces-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge

6143
14 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow of the late Jo. Miller, Comedian. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

6144
15 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover, Villeneuve, DelaGarde, Dupre, Richardson, Thompson

6145
16 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke, Dancing-Master. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: Glover, Richardson, Villeneuve, Dupre, DelaGarde, Miss Oates,also by Master Cooke, who never performed on any Stage before

6146
19 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

6147
22 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

6148
08 March 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Quin's Lodgings, Sign of the Sun, Bedford Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: III: Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Muilment

6149
13 March 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. As 10 March. Tickets at Mrs Clive's House, Cecil Street, the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Muilment, Mrs Thompson; V: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment

6150
17 March 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Tickets at Milward's in Brownlow-Street. [Henry Brooke has a note in the Daily Post, 17 March, stating that on 24 Feb. he gave to Chetwin, Deputy-Licencer of plays, a copy of Gustavus Vasa but has received neither a licence nor a statement of exceptions to it.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Grand Ballet, as17390313 V: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment