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Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #99 5s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit Mrs Younger. Receipts: money #73 19s.; tickets #135 3s. [The Prince, Princess Caroline, and Lady Ann Lumley present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, the Pierot, who composed the Entertainment. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Princess Royal and Princess Caroline. [Prince also present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Robinson. Bt Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, [Duke present. The Epilogue is printed in London Evening Post, 24 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: Essex, Rainton, Miss Robinson; Tambourine, Les Characters de la Dance-Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #42 2s. 6d.; tickets #17 11s. [Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness, the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit Miss Holliday. Afterpiece: A New Pastoral Ballad Opera of one Act [Author unknown]. Receipts: money #47 16s.; tickets #123 13s. [Prince and two of three eldest Princesses present.] Gentleman's Magazine, I (1731), 216: Miss Holliday...received from the Royal Family, over and above the usual Present, a large Gold Medal, weighing about 50 Guineas, with the Bust of her Majesty as Electress of Hanover on each Side

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty

Dance: SShepherds and Shepherdesses by Nivelon-Nivelon, Newhouse, Pelling, Dupre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; Chacone-Dupre, Mrs Pelling

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #176 17s. [The Prince and the Duke of Lorrain present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince, Duke of Lorrain, and Count Kinski present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince, Duke of Lorrain, and Count Kinski present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Lord Malpas, Marquis of Caernarvan present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance:

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: TThe Masques-

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #64 15s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: a new Scotch Dance-Miss Robinson; III: English Maggot-

Ballet: V: Ballad D'Amour. Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mrs Booth; Attendants on Adonis-Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Houghton; Attendants on Venus-Mrs Walter, Mrs Delorme, Miss Williams, Miss Mears

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness [who was present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: BBallad d'Amour-Denoyer, Mrs Booth

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [who was present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Benefit a Gentleman's Family in Distress. Receipts: money #71 0s. 6d.; tickets #51 15s. [Duke of Cumberland present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Dances also by Command of the Prince.] Receipts: #82 9s. 6d. [Prince and two eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: In afterpiece: Grand Dance of Momus (from Perseus and Andromeda)-; Hornpipe-Jones in Character of a Sailor; Tambourine-Miss Rogers

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Modish Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: RRich's Register: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: Denoyer, Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #50 7s.; tickets #119 4s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; II: The Sicilian (new)-Glover, Mrs Pelling; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon; IV: The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: MMinuet-Denoyer, Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince, Duke of Cumberland, three eldest Princesses, and Princess Mary present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: II: Le Chasseur Royal-Denoyer, Mrs Booth, others; III: Comic Dance-Denoyer, Mrs Walter; IV: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Booth; V: Serious Dance-Denoyer