*p1759 09 22 dl The Recruiting Officer. Plume-Palmer; Worthy-Austin; Kite-Bransby; Brazen-Obrien; Bullock-Phillips; Welsh Collier-Blakes; Recruits-Yates, Clough; Melhnda-Mrs Davies; Rose-Mrs Hippisley; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Sylvia-Miss Macklin; Balance-Havard.*a1759 09 22 dl The Intriguing Chambermaid. Drunken Colonel-Yates; Lettice-Mrs Clive.*c1759 09 22 dl N.B. We have engag'd $Mr King=; & $Miss Baker= from Ireland, one $Mr Moody=, a Stroler,-$Mr Beard= is gone to <i>Covent Garden</i>, 'tis said to be manager $Mr Mossop= to <i>Ireland</i>. Receipts: #120 ($Cross=). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places from $Mr Varney= at the Stage Door. No admittance behind scenes. [The customary note about prices and admittance will not be noted further here.] [At the opening of the theatres this season appeared an essay in $Goldsmith='s <i>Bee</i>, giving close observations upon actors, and deploring the relative stiffness and formality of <i>English actors</i> in comparison with the $French=. Advised English actors to travel abroad. Yet (Vol. 1759, p. 12) commented on the magnificnece of "our theatres as far superior to any others in <i>Europe</i> where plays only are acted. The great care our performers take in painting for a part, their exactness in all minutiae of dress, and other little scenical proprieties has been taken notice of by $Riccoboni=." Complains of the convention of laying a rug before a dying scene and of the vacant expressions of mutes on stage.]