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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.

5426
07 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Afterpiece: Not Acted these Seven Years. Written by Mr Christopher Bullock, Comedian. [Tickets at Chapman's, Bow-Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

5427
27 June 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [To act Tuesdays and Fridays.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Master and Miss Oates

5428
03 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

5429
12 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by N. Rowe, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: A new Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland, others

5430
09 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Afterpiece Title: (by Dby Desire) The Necromancer

5431
10 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 10 Nov.: Two of the French Strollers having desir'd Leave of the Town to act three Nights at one of the Patent Theatres, the Master of that House is desir'd to consider, whether if he lends it to those Foreigners, he can ever hope to have it fill'd with an English Audience, who probably will chastise the Abuse of Power in an ungrateful Patentee, as they did the Want of it in a French Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

5432
04 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Lady Stafford to Lord Wentworth, 4 Jan.: I hear their will be a vast riot to night at the Play, for young Cibber is to act and the Templars are resolved to hiss him off the stage. 6 Jan.: Young Cibber was vastly hiss'd a Thursday, but his old friend Impudence kept him from being either out of countenance or in the least disturb'd at the noise.-Wentworth Papers, p. 541

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: V: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

5433
04 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

5434
31 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. 1738. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 48: In the Year 1738, having, as he [Colley Cibber] said, Health and Strength enough to be as useful as ever, he came to Terms with Mr Fleetwood for his performing Richard, Fondlewife, Sir John Brute, &c. All his Comedy Parts he was right in, but in Richard he found his Mistake; his usual Strength and Spirit failed him most unhappily. I went behind the Scenes in the third Act, and asking him how he fared? He whispered me in the Ear, "That he wou'd give fifty Guineas to be then sitting in his easy Chair by his own Fireside.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: See17380930, but King Richard-Cibber Sr, the first time of his appearing in that character these seven years; King Henry-Milward; Buckingham-Mills; Richmond-Cibber Jr; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Roberts; Dutchess of York-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Anne-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Cibber Sr, the first time of his appearing in that character these seven years

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Muilment

5435
27 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman [who states that he is in danger of losing vision in one eye. Tickets at Chapman's House, the Corner of Bow Street cg.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 March: Last Week died, after a most tedious and expensive Illness, at Chelsea, Mrs Laguerre, formerly a celebrated Dancer on the Stage. Daily Post, 29 March: During the Rehearsal [on 27 March], of a new Tragedy, written by Mr Thompson, call'd Edward and Eleonora, (which was to have been acted on this Day) he receiv'd, to his great Surprise, a Message from the Lord Chamberlain, absolutely forbidding the acting of the said Play. No Objection having been made to the Whole or any Part of it, we must conclude it was consider'd as immoral or seditious

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

5436
24 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years [but see 19 Dec. 1729]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

5437
20 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: As 10 Oct. To act Monday through Saturday: King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, Henry V, and Richard III

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

5438
25 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Possibly this performance was dismissed. On 1 Nov. The Old Batchelor is announced: Not Acted this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Song: II: As17391024

Dance: III: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

5439
01 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted this Season [but see 25 Oct.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: As17391024

Dance: In III: Master Matthews, Miss Wright

5440
23 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these twelve Years. Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; IV: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

5441
13 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twelve Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Song: Proper to the Play.The Musick by Mr Arne-; Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne, Miss Jones, others

Dance: Mainpiece:IV: Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Cook, Davenport, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Davenport; In V: Dance of Furies-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Davenport

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

5442
09 October 1740 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips. At the Playhouse on the Bowling Green. The plays to be acted gratis. The Doors to be open'd at Four, and to begin precisely at Seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; II: A new Miller's Dance-Phillips; V: Scene of the Skeleton, with the Skeleton-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Song: III: A new Whimsical Welsh Song-Hemskirk

Music: By particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the Quaker's Sermon on the Violin-Phillips

5443
29 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Dance: II: Les Jardinieres Suedois (Grand Comic Ballet, new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Le Boufon-Fausan, Signora Fausan

Song: In IV: Lowe

5444
10 December 1740 @ Soho Square

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 10 Dec.: We hear that last Week La Mort de Cesar, a Tragedy, written by Mons Voltaire, was acted by the young Gentlemen at the Academy in Soho-Square, with very great Applause

Performances

5445
20 December 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Forty Years. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

5446
15 January 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Hundred Years. Written by Shakespear. With proper Scenes, Habits, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Song: dopted to the play, particulary a% Song-the Gentlewoman who performed Polly

Dance: dapted to the Play%

5447
25 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: End Act I will be introduced (by way of Interlude) the Solemn Invocation Scene in Oedipus-; with the Choruses-; After the Opera, the Songs and Choruses in As You Like It written by Shakespear, and by Mr Arne as intended originally to be performed-.

5448
23 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Prisoner in the King's Bench. [Tickets of Laguerre at John's Coffee-House, next door the King's-Bench, Southwark. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 April, Laguerre expressed his thanks to Giffard for giving him this benefit and added that, it being term-time, he had "by the common Licence of a Day Rule," liberty to act on 23 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

5449
10 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Beaumont and Fletcher. The Company will continue to Act every Day. Receipts: #40

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: As17410926

5450
13 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these Six years [8 April 1735]. Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv. The artful acquisition of the Crown by King Richardv. The Murder of Young King Edward Vv and his Brother, in the Tower. The Landing of the Earl of Richmondv, and the Death of King Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster. [This customary description appears in all subsequent notices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer