Event Comment: Benefit for
Lowe. [See following "puff" from the
Public Advertiser. "Sir: Perhaps there never was a period when the members of the stage were more respected than at present;
and t
his favour consequently proceeds from the decency of their behaviour,
and an emulative pride to please that public, whose generosity is an ample reward for their assiduity
and perseverance;
and when we consider the many qualifications, as well natural as acquired, requisite to constitute a player, surely the most rigid judge will be of opinion that the encouragement is not more than equal to the excellence. An actor must feel, that is, have the most refined idea of
his part, to make an audience feel likewise;
and adequate to the pleasures he enjoys in the applause of
his approvers, will rise
his degree of unhappiness, if by accident or sickness he is obstructed in the execution of
his Genius;
and should t
his happen at the era of
his benefit, it must then be
his misfortune to supplicate that interest which otherwise
his merit would have comm
anded. "I was led to these reflections by accidentally perusing an advertisement prefix'd to a bill for the benefit of
Mr Lowe; a performer too well known to need encomiums here; from whom the Town receive no inconsiderable Satisfaction at the theatre,
and whose harmonious performance at our deservedly frequented summer scene of pleasure, has long obtained their highest approbation. We are told that a severe cold
and Hoarseness have hindered
his performing for some weeks past,
and that he is now incapable of going abroad." Follows an elaborate plea for Lowe's friends to excuse
his not calling on them,
and for them to support
his Benefit Night. Signed
Veritas.