Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales and
Princess of Wales. This day is Publish'd The
Case of Mrs Clive Submitted to the Publick. [This is
Mrs Clive's 22-page complaint against the 'opression' of the managers of both patent theatres, who, it seems, formed a cartel to drive down actors' salaries, and caused by
Mrs Clive's unemployment. She was dropped from
Covent Garden without due notice and not for cause. She was not applied to by the Manager of
Drury Lane, although he knew her to be unemployed, because he still owed her #160 12s. Her case seemed doubly hard to her since she had equipped herself with a fine wardrobe for theatrical use, had acted diligently in main and afterpiece, often on the same night to the prejudice of her health; had been at great expense in Masters for singing, for which article alone the managers now give #6 a week." Concludes by pleading for publick support of her Case. She returned to cg to play
Lappet in the
Miser, 30 Nov. She states that the published list of salaries in the
London Daily Post of 15 Oct. 1734 is incorrect.
Performances
Dance: LLe Gondalier, as17441010; Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde