*p1736 10 01 cg The Way of the World. Mirabel-Ryan; Fainall-Walker; Witwoud-Chapman; Petulant-Neale; Sir Wilful-Hippsley; Waitwell-James; Millamant-Mrs Horton; Marwood-Mrs Hallam; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Buchanan; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Mullart; Foible-Mrs Stevens; Mincing-Miss Bincks; Peg-Miss Horsington.*a1736 10 01 cg The Necromancer. ^As17360922^.*c1736 10 01 cg Mainpiece: Written by the late $Mr Congreve=, <i>London Daily Post and General Advertiser</i>, 2 Oct.: Last Night in the Entertainment of <i>Dr Faustus</i>...when the Machine wherein were <i>Harlequin</i>r, <i>the Miller's Wife</i>r, <i>the Miller</i>r and his <i>the Miller's Man</i>r, was got up to the full Extent of its flying, one of the Wires which held up the hind part of the Car broke first, and then the other broke, and the Machine, and all the People in it fell down Upon the Stage; by which unhappy Accident the young Woman who personated the Miller's Wife had her Thigh broke, and her Kneepan shatter'd, and was otherways very much bruised, the Harlequin had his Head bruised, and his Wrist strained; the Miller broke his Arm; and the Miller's Man had his Scull so fractured that his Life in despaired of. $Thomas Gray= to $Horace Walpole=, 6 Oct.: <i>Covent Garden</i> has given me a sort of surfeit of $Mr Rich= and his cleverness, for I was at [<i>cg</i>] when the machine broke t'other night; the house was in amaze for above a minute, and I dare say a great many in the galleries thought it very desterously performed, and that they screamed as naturally as heart could wish, till they found it was no jest, by their calling for surgeons, of whom several luckily happened to be in the pit. I stayed to see the poor creatures brought out of the house, and pity poor $Mrs Buchanan= not a little, whom I saw put into a chair in such a fright that as she is big with child, I question whether it may not kill her.-<i>Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray</i>, I, 113-14.