Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Wells. Mainpiece [1st time; C 4, author unknown, not in
Larpent MS; not published. Epilogue by
Robert Merry (
World, 30 Apr.). On 11 May acted as
The Female Pursuit]: Taken from
Moor's
Gil Blas.
Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Mrs Wells trusts
the Public will have
the Candour to excuse her not appearing in
the Play, as
the principal Woman's Character has many changes in it, and
the Fatigue of going through various and numerous Imitations would render her incapable of undertaking it.
Gazetteer, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of
Mrs Wells, No. 12,
Weymouth-street,
Portland-place. Receipts: #301 14s. (166.2; 10.1; tickets: 125.11)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure; Or, Stop Her Who Can
Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409
Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells
Performance Comment: i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells.