Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by
Miss Copin for the
Merchant of Venice will be taken to the
Conscious Lovers (
General Advertiser). This day is publish'd, Price 1s.,
A Letter of Complaint to the Ingenious author of a Treatise on the Passions, so far as they regard the stage; with a critical Enquiry into the theatrical merit of Mr G-k, Mr Q-n, and Mr B-y, &c. With some further remarks on Mr M-n. And a few hints on our modern Actresses, particularly
Mrs C-r and
Mrs P-d.
Magna est Veritas, & pravalebit. Printed for
C. Corbett, over against
St. Dunstan's Church,
Fleet St. (
General Advertiser). [Illuminating discussion of actors' abilities]: The Stage is much indebted to Mr M- for his incessant successful endeavours; he not only grac'd it with his own personal merits, but rais'd up several Branches who tho' they have not yet quite eclips'd Mr
Giffard's Nursery from
Goodman's Fields, will certainly in time prove stars of the first magnitude.--(p. 28). Touch Messrs.
Giffard and
Ryan and give them better voices; there is nothing else wanting. Help
Mr Delane to a new manner and judgment to display the best pipe that ever was heard. Polish a little the rough Beauties of
Mr L. Sparkes, give the sensible
Mr Havard a few more spirits; and mend the Humour of
Hippisley,
Chapman,
Barrington, and
Blakes if you can. Poor
Yates wants nothing but a front of brass, a necessary self-sufficient Manner of pushing himself upon a Publick.--(p. 31). If
Mrs Giffard's Manner was equal to her understanding, she wou'd compell everybody to acknowledge her a surprising Performer. In
Lady Macbeth she is excellent; and
Hermione was very near eclipsing a much more popular actress; in short in every Part she performs, the severest of her enemies cannot but own she is more than decent.--(pp. 32-33). [Gives two pages each to discussion of
Mrs Clive,
Mrs Woffington,
Mrs Cibber, and
Mrs Pritchard.