Event Comment: Benefit for
the Fund, established for
the Relief of those Performers who, through Infirmity, shall be obliged to retire from
the Stage. State of
the Theatrical Fund, instituted at
Covent Garden in
the year 1765, and confirmed by Act of
Parliament, 1776. This Institution, calculated to provide for, and relieve aged and infirm Performers and
their Families, has not been successful enough during
the course of 33 years, to acquire any particular Patronage, but has been raised and supported (some few private Donations and Bequests excepted) merely through
the liberal Contributions of its Members. Several aged Persons are now, and have been for many years, oeconomically maintained by it, although
the Interest arising from
the general Sum already amassed is not equal to one half of
the Claims of its Annuitants.
The o
ther Portion is entirely supplied from
the weekly Contributions of
the Performers. Applications to
the Public in behalf of this salutary Institution have rarely been made, and sometimes very ineffectually. On
these Considerations
therefore
the Lovers of Dramatic Entertainments are respectfully addressed for
their Encouragement at This Evening's Performance. (See
Genest, VII, 365-66.) Receipts: #131 7s. (122.13; 1.16; tickets: 6.18)