Event Comment: Benefit for
Miss Macklin. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 27 Jan. 1770.] Afterpiece: For this night only this season (playbill). Charges #64 5s. Profit to Miss Macklin #19 4s., plus #43 from 172 Box tickets. Paid
Whitefield one fourth year's salary due
Lady Day last #25. Paid
Mr Barber for a suit of regimentals embroider'd with gold, #12 12s. Paid
Lowe and Lucas (linnen drapers) #13 19s.; Paid
Evans for Spermecita candles as per bill #12. Paid
Barrett (wax chandler) #3 4s. (Account Book). [Miss Macklin considered this a poor benefit, and on 6 May 1772 wrote to her father about the troubles she met in getting it underway.
Woodward would not play in the farce since it did not belong to the theatre and since he had not be asked before she put his name in the bills.
Kniveton labored hard and did quite well as
Sir Archy.
Ann Pitt so ill she could not do
Lady Wrangle, but
Mrs Hull sat up two nights, learned the part and acted it creditably (
Harvard, Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Vol. II, pt. 2, after p. 55).] Receipts: #83 9s. (Account Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Lady's Philosophy
Performance Comment: Sir Gilbert-Yates; Frankly-Wroughton; Granger-Hull; Witling-Dyer; Cook-Dunstall; Lady Wrangle-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Mrs Green; Sophronia-Mrs Lessingham; Charlotte-Miss Macklin; In Act IV, a Minuet-Hamoir, Miss Macklin.Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode
Dance: End: A Dance in which will be an Allemande,-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir