Event Comment: Benefit for
Lowe. [See following "puff" from
the Public Advertiser. "
Sir: Perhaps
there never was a period when
the members of
the stage were more respected than at present; and this favour consequently proceeds from
the decency of
their behaviour, and an emulative pride to please that public, whose generosity is an ample reward for
their assiduity and perseverance; and when we consider
the many qualifications, as well natural as acquired, requisite to constitute a player, surely
the most rigid judge will be of opinion that
the encouragement is not more than equal to
the excellence. An actor must feel, that is, have
the most refined idea of his part, to make an audience feel likewise; and adequate to
the pleasures he enjoys in
the applause of his approvers, will rise his degree of unhappiness, if by accident or sickness he is obstructed in
the execution of his Genius; and should this happen at
the era of his benefit, it must
then be his misfortune to supplicate that interest which o
therwise his merit would have commanded. "I was led to
these reflections by accidentally perusing an advertisement prefix'd to a bill for
the benefit of
Mr Lowe; a performer too well known to need encomiums here; from whom
the Town receive no inconsiderable Satisfaction at
the theatre, and whose harmonious performance at our deservedly frequented summer scene of pleasure, has long obtained
their highest approbation. We are told that a severe cold and Hoarseness have hindered his performing for some weeks past, and that he is now incapable of going abroad." Follows an elaborate plea for Lowe's friends to excuse his not calling on
them, and for
them to support his Benefit Night. Signed
Veritas.