Event Comment: Benefit for
Blakes. Tickets and places of Blakes at his house in
Cranbourne Alley,
Leicester Fields, and of
Hobson at the stage door. Les Messieurs & Dames peuvent laisser Diner leurs Domestiques car a quatre Heur sera assez a bonne heur de les Envoyer pour Gardez les places dans les loges.
M. Fanfaron (
General Advertiser). [The
General Advertiser this day also included the first announcement of
Mrs Macklin's benefit to be held on 22 April, at which would be perform'd the
Lover's Melancholy, "Not acted these Hundred years," together with a new farce (never acted) called
The Club of Fortune Hunters. The notice ran again several times, followed by the letters to the author of the
General Advertiser noted on 19 and 23 April.] Receipts: #111 (
Cross); house charges, #63 (
Powel); cash, #58 6s.; tickets, #52 15s. (
Clay MS)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not
Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment
Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 Sailor's Rendezvous, as17471117
Song: SSailor's Rendezvous, as17471117