Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. House Charges #65 5s. [Profit to Yates #118 16s. 6d.] Not performed for 20 years. Revived with alterations. Paid
B. Johnson's Head Bill #2 5s. 6d. Paid #2 2s. for licensing
Dido (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #184 6d. (Treasurer's Book). About 5 went into the Pit at
Drury Lane to see the
False Friend reviv'd with alterations, for the benefit of Yates. It engages the attention, but was very well performed.
Don John by
Holland;
Don Pedro by
Powell;
Lopez by
Mr Yates, the drinking
Servant by
Baddeley;
Leonora by
Mrs Barry (whom I never saw before);
Isabella by
Miss Plym and
Jacintha by
Mrs Yates. I think an
Abigail an odd character for her, but no doubt she was willing to play anything for her husband's benefit. After the dance of the
Vintage,
Mr Yates spoke by way of Interlude a new piece on his being in
France called the "
Modern Traveller," containing some strokes on the affectation of
French Fashions, &c. We had the Farce of
High Life Below Stairs with
minuet by Mrs Yates and a
French Valet, which I do not remenber to have seen when I saw this Farce (before) (
Neville MS Diary)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The False Friend
Performance Comment: Parts-Holland, Powell, Yates, Bransby, Packer, Baddeley, Mrs Yates, Miss Plym, Mrs W. Barry. [See Neville's comments below.]See Neville's comments below.]Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs
Dance: Pantomime Dance, The Vintage, as17661011
Entertainment: V: a New Interlude, The Modern Traveller-Mr Yates