Event Comment: Benefit for
Wood,
Percey,
Cameron,
Wilson,
George,
Woollams.
Kemble Mem.: Benefit for
the Boxkeepers. A New Edition of
the [mainpiece] to be had at
the Theatre. "Went to play.
Mrs Jordan in '
Rosalind.' I am still of opinion,
there is more in her person and natural manners than in her acting. Her merit lies out of her part.
The words set down by
the author she does not repeat with great propriety of tone, emphasis, or gesture, than o
thers. But she has of
these, certain peculiarities, which indicate dispositions, such as take strong hold of
the affections, at least of
the male part of her audience; and
therefore, when
the part is of a sort to admit a large portion of
these, she produces a great effect.
The true acting of
the part may, in many instances, not require what she throws into it, but it may admit it; and if
the expression so thrown in is of
the sort described,
the effect of
the whole will be improved, though
the part is
thereby nei
ther better nor worse acted" (
Windham Diary, 28 May 1791, 227). Receipts: #363 4s. 6d. (33.5.0; 9.5.6; 2.13.0; tickets: 318.1.0) (charge: #117 1s. 7d.)