Event Comment: By
Their Majesties Comm
and. Benefit
Mrs Oldfield.
Daily Journal, 7 March: Last Night
the King,
Queen,
Prince of Wales,
and the Princesses were all at the Theatre in
Drury-Lane....But before the Play began, a Gentlewoman presented a Book, address'd to
Princess Amelia, intitled,
The Ladies Preservative, in the Three Chief Characteristicks of Beauty; the Hair, Complexion, and Teeth, which was very graciously received.
Universal Spectator, 8 March:
And supposing the Tickets which came in at the usual Rates, there was about 240 1. in the House. But her Benefit is generally reckoned at 500 1. several Persons of Quality, &c. giving five, ten,
and twenty Guineas each. There was the greatest Appearance of Ladies of Quality at her Benefit that ever was known,
and the House so excessive full, Stage
and all, that the Actors had scarce Room to perform
Performances
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