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7107 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act be<span class=
We found 4703 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Performance Comments, 1492 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5401
21 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Thirty Years. Benefit Mrs Roberts. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's The Mistress

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde; V: Scots Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland

Song: II: The Early Horn Salutes the Morn-Miss Jones; III: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

5402
25 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For Occasional Prompter XXVIII (on an Act to regulate the stage), see Daily Journal, 25 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Della Verita

Music: As17370323

5403
14 April 1737 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: This is to inform the Publick, that the new Tragi-Comedy, intitled The Free-Thinker; or, The Fox uncas'd, which was last Summer rehearsed and was to have been play'd at [lif], but by Mr Rich's letting that House to Mr Giffard, for that Season, was prevented, will be acted on the 14th of April next [at yb], by Mr Hallam's Company of Comedians. The Play is writ much in the same Stile and Manner of George Barnwell....The Author hopes that the Generous and Judicious will encourage the Performance, tho' the Company of Players are not dropt down from the Clouds, nor does the Play libel the Government. [No further announcement of the performance has been noted before 28 April.

Performances

5404
18 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 390: To the Haymarket Playhouse, where a farce was acted called Eurydice First Hiss'd?, an allegory on the loss of the Excise Bill. The whole was a satire on Sir Robert Walpole, and I observed that when any strong passages fell, the Prince, who was there, clapped, especially when in favour of liberty. [The Princess of Wales was also present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

5405
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

5406
18 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: As 17 May. The Usefulness of the Stage (1738) stated (p. 18) that The Dragon of Wantley was acted at hay with little success and that the audience was dismissed on the third night [this night, presumably]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

5407
24 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere. [By this day the newspapers had recorded, in a variety of versions, that a Licensing Act was under consideration in Parliament.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer's Prentice

5408
28 May 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: TThe Craftsman, 28 May, has an essay the proposed Licensing Act

Performances

5409
04 June 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For discussion of the Licensing Act, see Craftsman, 4 June, and Common Sense, 4 June. London Evening Post, 4 June: We hear that by the Bill now in the House of Peers against Players of Interludes, &c. all Copies of Plays, Farces, or any Thing wrote in the Dramatick Way, are to lie fourteen Days before his Grace the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household for the Time being, for his Grace's Perusal and Approbation, before they shall be exhibited on the Stage

Performances

5410
08 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For further discussion of the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 8 and 9 June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Justin

5411
10 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [For further comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 10 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

5412
11 June 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [For an essay on "Kicking in Plays," see Common Sense, 11 June; Daily Gazetteer, 11 June, has another comment on the Licensing Act, and again on 13 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

5413
15 June 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Oates. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. 6 p.m. Tickets [for Demagny, a Widow in Distress, Leigh, Nosom, and Legard taken at this play. For another comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 15 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: A new Serious Dance-Master and Miss Oates; II: Irish Trot-Master and Miss Oates; V: Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates

5414
18 June 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For discussions of the Licensing Act, see London Journal, 18 June, and Craftsman, 18 June

Performances

5415
25 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floor'd over, and laid to the Boxes. [For further comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 24 June, and Craftsman, 25 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

5416
July 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For continued discussion of the Licensing Act, see Gentleman's Magazine, July 1737; Craftsman, 2, 23, and 30 July; Daily Gazetteer, 6, 7, 9, and 16 July; Fog's, 2 July

Performances

5417
22 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Possibly acted on this day, but see17370726 .

5418
14 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted [there] these Fourteen Years. Written by Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

5419
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

5420
06 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Not Acted these Forty Years. Written by Shakespear. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: BBallet, as17380204

5421
13 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Feb.: On Monday last Mr Lacy, who set up the Oratory in York Buildings, and was committed to Bridewell some time since, by two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace on the lade Act of Parliament, was brought by Habeas Corpus to the King's Bench, in order to be bail'd, but after several Learned Arguments by his Council, which were answer'd by the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the Court remanded him back again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

5422
21 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 Feb.: Since my distant Relation Tomo Chachi was pleas'd, through your Means, to give his Reason for the Town's Condemnation of the Two first licensed Dramatick Performances since the new Act,-I desire to have his Opinion concerning the Fate of the Third-call'd Art and Nature:-I presume he cannot assign for Cause what he did before, for that this Piece did not receive the Indulgence of being heard at all....Adomo Tomo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter

5423
23 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Piece of One Act: Being the Sequel to the King and the Miller of Mansfield. [By Robert Dodsley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Dance: V: Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

5424
23 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Forty Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; With The Memorable Battle Of Agincourt

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

5425
13 March 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fifty Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Sixth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland, Tench, Desse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Cantrel