Event Comment: [The first payroll of the season was met this night. It includes 91 actors, actresses and dancers, plus 36 named servants to the theatre and 4 groups (women dressers, charwomen, guards, and barbers). The pay period covered was for 3 days. It came to #168 2s. 6d. The highest paid actor for this period was
Ross at #8 5s.; the highest paid actress,
Mrs Yates at #8 6s. 6d.; the highest paid dancer,
Fichar at #3. The lowest paid in each category were: actors:
C. Smith and
Hollingsworth at 7s. 6d. apiece; actresses, 11 who receiv'd 10s. each (
Mrs Ferguson,
Evans,
White,
Allen,
Cockayne, &c.); Dancers: 11 who receiv'd 15s. apiece (male) and 2 (female) who receiv'd 12s. 6d. apiece. The highest paid servant listed was
Stables at 15s., and the lowest the charwomen.