Event Comment: Admission: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes to taken of
Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Play to begin exactly at o'clock. [This information, appearing at the foot of each bill, will not be repeatdd hereafter, except for significant differences.] Receipts: #111 5s. Deficit brought over from last season accounts, Journal T. Folio, 182, #164 0s. 6d. Paid
Mr Lambert 3 month's salary to 15 Aug. last #25 (
Covent Garden Cash Book). [
Goldsmith's
Bee (1759, p. 9) remarks on the better business used by
Lovegold in the
French theatre than used at
cg: "Lovegold [in
France] in the height of his passion stops to pick up a pin, quilting it in his coat, and snuffs out an extra candle." Implies that such subconscious revelations of the character of the miser might well be used by the
English.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Miser
Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay