Days of the dandies . of a conversation betweentwo servants, who converse in a supposed dialectof the servants hall. The bill of the performance is interesting asshowing the businesslike character of the play-bills: The Fifteenth Night. By His Majestys Company, at the Theatre Royal inDrury Lane, This present Thursday, the 10th April, will bepresented a New Comedy, calld THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE! THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS BY Mr. Holland, Mr. Powell, Mr. Yates, Mr. King, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Love, Mr. Lee, Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Aickin, Mr. Watkins, Miss Pope, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Abington, Miss Plym, and Mrs
Days of the dandies . of a conversation betweentwo servants, who converse in a supposed dialectof the servants hall. The bill of the performance is interesting asshowing the businesslike character of the play-bills: The Fifteenth Night. By His Majestys Company, at the Theatre Royal inDrury Lane, This present Thursday, the 10th April, will bepresented a New Comedy, calld THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE! THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS BY Mr. Holland, Mr. Powell, Mr. Yates, Mr. King, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Love, Mr. Lee, Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Aickin, Mr. Watkins, Miss Pope, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Abington, Miss Plym, and Mrs. Clive. Boxes, 5s. Pit, 3s. First Gallery, 2s. Upper Gallery, is. Places for the Boxes to be had of Mr. Johnston, at the Stage Door. *#* No Money to be received at the Stage Door nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Vivant Rex et Regina. To-morrow, King John, With the Capricious Lovers. For the Benefit of Mr. Havard. Little Strawberry Hill Residence of Kitty Clive (Twickenham)Engraved by C. J. Smith. CHAPTER VI. Continued Wranglings with Garrick — Correspondence — 111Spelling — Quaviling — Fined for Absence — Acting aGridiron — Doctor Johnson — Retirement from the Stage. j^lNLUCKILY with advancing years the^=H temper of our actress seemed to growsoured, and her sense of grievance, realor imaginary, more keen. She seemed to look outfor opportunities of quarrel, and made herself astroublesome as she could. This unlucky spiritseems presently to have actually driven her to theresolution of retiring from the stage, when she wasscarcely fifty-seven years old. A single specimenof the style in which she would comport herself ina wrangle of this sort will be found highly enter-taining, as exhibiting her frowardness and theplacidity and tact of Mr. Garrick; indeed, it proveswhat admirable gifts of management, in thestrictest sense, he possessed. The quarrel aroseon the subject of the day of a benefit, on which theplayers were always touchy. The letters spe
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