Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Jordan. [In mainpiece the playbill retains
King as
Sir Peter Teazle, but "
Murray, on account of the indisposition of King, was the
Sir Peter to Mrs Jordan's
Lady Teazle" (
Monthly Mirror, May 1797, p. 311).] Tickets delivered for the 15th [for which day the benefit was first announced] will be admitted. "On the whole, Mrs Jordan's Lady Teazle, if not excellent, was respectable; and at a time when it was thought that it would be impossible to personify her Ladyship [i.e. after the retirement of
Miss Farren], Mrs Jordan is commendable in having endeavoured it...[
Sir Peter] was a part well suited to
Murray, who excels in the still and the pathetic...In the screen scene his mirth in revealing to
Charles the story of the
French milliner, and his amazement the moment after when Charles, throwing down the screen, presented that milliner in the shape of Lady Teazle, must confirm the reputation of
Murray. 'Lady Teazle!' (exclaimed he, turning from her towards the door, and in an accent alarmingly impressive), 'Lady Teazle, by all that is damnable!" (
Monthly Visitor, June 1797, pp. 531-32).
True Briton, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14,
Somerset-street,
Portman-square. Receipts: #550 3s. (232.4.0; 72.2.0; 7.10.6; tickets: 238.6.6) (charge: free)