Event Comment: Farce in two acts never performed before. Full prices. [See advertisement to
Reed's 1761 edition where he accuses
Foote of taking the character of
Mrs Cole in the
Minor from
Mrs Snarewell.] A new farce wrote by one Reed, a ropemaker, brought out by Mr Foote--went off tolerable--hissed a little at the end (
Hopkins MS Notes). [See advertisement for the Universal Register Office
General Advertiser 18 Oct. 1750: This Office being much approv'd
and encouraged especially by Ladies
and Gentlemen in the Country, we have daily enquiries by those who are just come to town,
and many letters from those in the country to procure houses
and lodgings, both furnished
and unfurnished, for single Gentlemen, Ladies,
and Families for the winter;
and also boarding houses as well in
French Families as in
English Families." Announces its books open to any who wish to register there. The afterpiece met with trouble from the
Licenser.
Larpent MS 189 and 196, indicate the exceptionable passages to be those using profanity,
and those of
Mrs Snarewell's capable of double entendre, principally about the comfort she received from
Mr Watchlight who was called twice out of bed to pray-"so ernest in his ejaculations, &c."