Event Comment: Benefit
Cross (Prompter),
DeMaimbray (Mechanist), and
Desse. Tickets deliver'd out by
Nodder,
Owen,
Miss Lee, and others will be taken. [This month in the
Gentlemen's Magazine appeared a long essay from
Champion No. 5, entitled
The Character of an excellent Actor, an appreciative essay on the difficulties of acting, and the excellence of
Garrick. The author avows he never exchanged a word with Garrick in his life. In July the
Gentlemen's Magazine publish'd a reply to the contention that shewing good plays and giving men a relish for them was a satisfactory method of instructing the young, concluding instead against stage entertainments because they may be and are productive of much ill; and can serve no good end but what may be more effectively attained by other means.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko
Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet
Dance: II: La Florana, as17430408 New Ballet-Desse, Mrs Walter
Music: V: a Concerto-Burk Thomuth