The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...by four persons, we should imagine not to be paralleled, had we not before our eyes the Pg 498 advertisement of a farce in no better a situation. What such exhibitions are, they only who have witnessed them are able to inform us. The bill is certainly a curiosity, and as you pay particular attention to the theatricals, I am induced to present you with it, for the entertainment of your readers. T. A. S. THEATRE. White Lion, Ambleside. On Wednesday evening, September 18. Will be presented the much admired new comedy of THE POOR GENTLEMAN, Or the Love of Argument. Lieut Worthington, Mr. Weile. Humphrey Dobbins, Sir Robert Bramble, Corporal Ross, Mr. Deans. Ollapod the Apothecary, Stephen Harroby, Sir Charles Cropland, Mr. Johnston. Frederick Bramble, Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, Miss Emily Worthington, Mrs. Deans. After the play the following Songs, &c. My Mary's true by Mrs. Deans. Knowing Joe among the show folks, by Mr. Johnston. Comic Songs, by Mr. Weile. Hipsley's drunken man, by Mr. Johnston. To conclude with the laughable farce of BARNABY BRITTLE, Or, a Wife at her wits' End. Barnaby Brittle, Mr. Deans. Sir Peter Pride, Mr. Weile. Clodpole, Lovemore, Mr. Johnston. Jeremy, Mrs. Brittle, Damaras, Mrs. Deans. Tickets of admission to be had at the principals inns. Front seat, 1s, back, 6d, to begin at 8 o'clock. FOOTNOTES: H Te teneam moriens, deficiente manu. I See Josephus de Uxoribus