*p1742 05 06 dl Othello. ^As17410910^.*a1742 05 06 dl Miss Lucy in Town. Lucy-Mrs Clive; Zorobabel-Macklin; Signor Cantileno-Beard; Ballad-Ray; Thomas-Neale; Lord Bawble-Cross; Goodwill-Taswell; Mrs Haycock-Mrs Macklin; Tawdry-Mrs Bennet[from edition of 1742, but listed in the order of the actors' names given in <i>London Daily Post and General Advertiser</i>].*c1742 05 06 dl Mainpiece: By Particular desire. Afterpiece: Never Acted Before. [The Farce by $Fielding= is a sequel to <i>The Virgin Unmasked</i>.] Forbidden soon by the <i>Lord Chamberlain</i>. It being supposed that a particular man of quality was pointed at in one of the characters. The prohibition short of duration ($Genest=, III, 652). See <i>A Letter to a Noble Lord to whom it alone belongs, occasioned by a representation at Drury Lane of a Farce call'd Miss Lucy in Town</i> (1742), [a 20 page pamphlet criticizing the Lord Chamberlain for allowing this farce. Author gives a scene by scene account emphasizing the bawdry and discounting the pious conclusion. He concludes with remarks on theatrical dancing]: As to Dances, I think your province of prohibition does not extend; so the Public cannot owe their gratitude to you for several. I appeal to those who have been on the coast of <i>Malabar</i> and the banks of the <i>Ganges</i> whether we have not had some that have exceeded on posture, or anything of that kind so common amongst the polite $Indians= of <i>Indostan</i>. Afterpiece: $Mrs Clive= mimics the <i>Muscovita</i> admirably, and $Beard= $Amorevoli= intolerably ($H. Walpole= to $H. Mann=, 26 May).-<i>Horace Walpole Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann</i>, I, 435. Receipts: #70.