Event Comment: The Rebellion, is so far from being a disadvantage to the play-houses that, I assure you, it brings them very good houses;
and the masters receive so much profit from the
Nonjuror, that I wish it does not give them a respect for the name the rest of their lives.-
Mrs Cibber to
Garrick, 24 Oct. in
Boaden,
Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 37. She continues: There will be no operas this year, so if you,
Mr Quin and I, agree to play without any salary,
and pick up some of the best actors
and actresses that are disengaged, at what salary you both think proper, I make no doubt we shall get a licence to play there for fifty, sixty, or any number of nights you agree upon.
Mr Heidigger shall pay scenes, & pay those that receive wages;
and deliver the overplus to some proper person to enlist men to serve in any of the regiments of Guards, at five pounds per man;--this is the service
St. Martin's Parish puts the money to that they collect,--
and I mention it, because it is thought the most serviceable to the Government, of any scheme yet proposed