Event Comment: We hear that some Gentlemen
and Ladies who intended to act a private play for their own amusement, at the
Little Theatre in the Haymarket; but having been much importuned by their friends
and acquaintances for tickets, they found a larger house would be necessary. They applied therefore to the Author of the Masque now performing at
Drury Lane, who, without hesitation, agreed that the run of
Alfred should be interrupted for one night to oblige them. The tragedy of
Othello, we are told is the play the Gentlemen have pitched on. The theatre being en
gaged to some Gentlemen
and ladies for a private play tomorrow, the
Masque of Alfred is oblig'd to be deferr'd till Saturday next. Some Persons, it seems, continue still under a Mistake that this Masque [Alfred] is the same with the first draught of one formerly written under the same title: they need only, to be undeceived, look into the advertisement prefixed to that performance just now printed for
A. Miller, in the
Strand. The Ladies
and Gentlemen who distributed Tickets for the Play
Othello which was to have been acted in the Haymarket, intend to perform it tomorrow at Drury Lane: No person will be admitted without a ticket,
and no tickets will be taken at the stage door (
General Advertiser)