Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone.  1st piece: By permission of 
G. Colman, Esq.; never performed here.  [
Bannister Jun.'s 1st appearance at this 
theatre was on 2 Feb. 1779.]  3rd piece: Not performed here 
these 3 years.  [No play of this title had been hi
therto acted anywhere.  But it appears to be 
the same as 
The Sailor's Prize, for which see 
cg, 1 May 1795.]  
Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, 
Piazza, 
Covent Garden.  Receipts: #478 (208.6.6; 13.17.6; tickets: 255.16.0)
                   
                    
                      Performances
                      Mainpiece Title: False And True
Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law
Performance Comment: Bowkit (By Permission of the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre)-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance on this stage); Cranky-Munden; Vinegar-Emery; Orator Mum-Knight (Their 1st apappearance in those characters); Bouquet-Hill; Idle-Farley; Signor Arionelli-Incledon; Cecilia-Mrs Atkins.Afterpiece Title: The Paradox or Maid Wife and Widow
Song: In course Evening: a new Sea Ballad, composed for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Tomorrow[; or, the Mars, Capt. Connor (the words by the Author of the Castle Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]; the music by Kelly)-Incledon; A Touch at old Times-Munden; In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone
Performance Comment: Connor (the words by the Author of the Castle Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]; the music by Kelly)-Incledon; A Touch at old Times-Munden; In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone.