Event Comment: Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 25 Nov.: On Tuesday the King's Scholars at Westminster acted the Andrea of Terrence in their Dormitory, before several of the Nobility, with great Applause

Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Edition of 1724: I think it my Duty also, to return Thanks to the Town, for their favourable Reception of this Play; and for the Applause their Indulgence bestow'd on the Performance of the Young Actors: Particularly for my own Success, in a double Capacity, as Actor and Author

Event Comment: Their Habits were very rich, after the Roman Manner, and the performance of all the Parts was so just that it gave general Satisfaction, and gained the Applause of a very numerous Audience

Event Comment: Benefit Old Toby, the Huntsman. At Lee's Booth, on Windmill Hill, in Upper Moorfields. As perform'd with universal Applause through the noted Cities of England

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 18s. Daily Post, 22 Jan.. Last Night...the Prince of Wales went...to see the New Entertainment of Apollo and Daphne, which has been acted several Days with great Applause; the Contrivance of the Whole being very ingenious, and the Scenery and Decorations as splendid as any Thing that has yet appeared of that Kind

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] At 7 p.m. Daily Journal, 7 May: On Thursday Night, Signiora Faustina, the famous Roman Songstress, performed his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses, and great Numbers of the Nobility and Quality, in...Alexander...with great Applause

Event Comment: MMist's, 6 Jan.. We hear that in a certain Alley in Wapping during the Holidays the Coronation of Anna Bullenv has been represented by Punch's Company of Actors with very great Applause; and that all that have seen it agree, that they have far excell'd their Brethren of Drury-Lane in the Conduct of that Farce; and, it is the common Opinion, that the wooden Actors have much the best Heads for Theatrical Decorations

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #153 7s.; tickets #12 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 184 by money and 49 by tickets; stage, 58 by money; balcony, 3 by money; pit, 281 by money; slips, 39 by money; first gallery, 381 by money; second gallery, 180 by money. Daily Journal, 8 Feb.: The Beggars Opera...meets with that universal Applause, that no one third Part of the Company that crowd thither to see it, can get Admittance: Which occasions a new Run to the Provok'd Husband at Drury-Lane; and so proves an equal Advantage to both Houses

Event Comment: Receipts. #170 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 306 paid and 2 orders; staoe, 46 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 263 paid and 2 orders; slips, 59 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 417 paid; second gallery, 180 paid. Daily Journal, 12 Feb.: The Beggar's Opera is continued acting...with the greatest Applause, and to an Audience as numerous as ever. And we are informed, That most of the Boxes are taken to the 25th Night. [See also Gay to the Earl of Oxford, 12 Feb., in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473.

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Nov.: We hear the new Entertainment of Perseus and Andromeda...from the Excellency of the Contrivance, and the Grandeur of the Scenery, meets with universal Applause

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The Epilogue is printed in Daily Post, 12 Aug., which added: There was a very handsome Audience, and the young Actors were dismiss'd with general Applause.

Event Comment: [T$The Prince of Wales present.] Daily Journal, 29 Jan.: The Tragedy of Timoleon has been received with very great Applause by the Town, notwithstanding the Endeavours of a certain Person (who can give a Preference to none but his own Performances) to depreciate it

Event Comment: A New Ballad Opera, [By George Lillo.] Receipts: #91 9s. 6d. Daily Courant, 12 Nov.: On Tuesday Night...Sylvia...was perform'd for the first Time...where there appeared a Set of People, who seem'd inclined to damn the whole Performance (if it had been in their Power)by their continual Hissing and Cat-Calls; notwithstanding which, the same was perform'd with Applause, by the general Approbation of the Pit and Boxes

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction and eminent Merchants of the City of London. Daily Post, 22 July: Last Tuesday...George Barnwell was performe'd...with great Applause, to a crowded Audience, there being present most of the eminent Merchants of the City of London; they appear'd greatly pleased with the Play and Performance

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 5 June: We were partly misinform'd as to the Reception of the two Pieces play'd on Thursday Night...We are assured the Comedy call'd The Old Debauchees, did meet with universal Applause; but The Covent Garden Tragedy will be Acted no more, both the Author and the Actors being unwilling to continue any Piece contrary to the Opinion of the Town

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Benefit of the Famous Signora Violante, who is just arriv'd with a new extraordinary fine Company....After the Irish Manner, Which was perform'd 96 Times in Dublin with great Applause. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [For performances at the Fairs in September, see season of 1731-1732.

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 1 Nov.: A Rehearsal...before a very numerous Audience of the Nobility and Gentry; who were pleased to express a very great Satisfaction from the Performance, and no less Applause of the Performers

Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Metastasio. Music by J. A. Hasse and R. Broschi.] Pit and Boxes by Tickets at a half guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 P.M. Daily Advertiser, 30 Oct.: All the Royal Family were at the Opera, when Signior Farinelli perform'd . . . with prodigious Applause. The Theatre was exceedingly crowded

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Farce of one Act. [By Robert Dodsley.] Prompter, 18 Feb.: This little Performance, without any Theatrical Merit whatsoever, received the loudest Applauses that I have heard this long while, only on Account of its General and Well-Adapted Satire on the Follies of Mankind

Event Comment: By Desire. [In a letter to the Daily Journal, 13 Feb., Michael Poitier thanks the public for the applause given him on 8 Feb., and refers to the earlier disturbance there occasioned by his failure to appear with Mlle Roland. He states that she was indisposed and that he sent a message to that effect to the manager.]

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Henry Fielding.] Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. Preface: What could incense a Number of People to attack it with such an inveterate Prejudice, is not easy to determine; for Prejudice must be allowed, be the Play good or bad, when it is condem'd unheard. Prompter, 18 Feb.: Here I had an Opportunity of making an Observation very much in Favour of the Town; viz, That the Accusation of Bad Taste is very falsly and unjustly brought against them, since if the Town had really the bad Taste, they are represented to have, the Play would have run the remaining Part of the Season, in an uninterrupted Course of Applause. I had likewise an Opportunity of observing much more Impartiality than I expected, in the Behaviour of the Audience, for till almost the third Act was over, they sat very quiet, in hopes it would mend

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By William Popple.] Grub St. Journal, 26 Feb. 1736: It was play'd the first night to about a 30l. house; three parts of which were the Author's friends, who came on purpose, right or wrong, to applaud it: notwithstanding which, little or no applause was given

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 22 May: We hear that Mons Poitier and Mademoiselle Roland made their Submission last Night on the Stage, and ask'd Pardon of the Town, and afterwards danc'd with universal Applause

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 15 Dec: The Opera of Adriano, now performing with great Applause, particularly for some fine Songs in it, compos'd for Signior Farinello, having been thought by the King to be rather too long, M. Veracini has shorten'd it, and his Majesty has declar'd his Intention of being present at it [Tuesday 16]. We hear, that after this Opera has had its run, there will be a new one call'd Mithridates, the Drama of which is wrote in English by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat, and translated from thence into Italian