and makes his escape-Etherington wants to seduce Jesse-Barbara takes Jesse under her protectionat the conclusion, Rushfort becomes sensible of his folly he is reconciled to his uncle, and marries Barbara-Etherington is inclined to marry Jessethis is a very dull C. by Kenney. 26. Miss S. Booth acted Barbara Green. May 3. Lionel and Clarissa, revived. Col. Oldboy = Fawcett : Jessamy Liston. = Liston: Jenny = Mrs. 7. Jew, in 3 acts. Sheva Sherenbeck of Rochester, 1st app. there: Frederick Vining: Charles = Abbott Jabal Mathews: Eliza Ratcliffe Mrs. Fawcit-with Devil to Pay. Nell Mrs. Jordan. = 11. Timour the Tartar, 3d time this season-on account of the extraordinary overflow from every part of the theatre, no orders will be admitted during the engagement of the Equestrian Company. 13. Othello= Conway: Iago Young, 1st time. 14. Pannel. Beatrice Mrs. Jordan. 16. Nell Mrs. Jordan. = 20. Mrs. Jordan acted Miss Hoyden. 21. Hamlet. Hamlet = Kemble: Queen = Mrs. Renaud, late Mrs. Powell: Ophelia Miss Stephens. 23 and 25. Kemble acted Rolla, and Brutus. 24. Richard Cœur de Lion, revived. Richard = Sinclair Blondel Barrymore: (his part originally) Antonio Miss Rennell: Matilda Miss Stephens : Laurette Miss Matthews-with Devil to Pay. Nell Mrs. Jordan. = = 26. Never acted, Tricking's Fair in Love-Liston -Jones-Miss S. Booth, &c.-this Farce was acted but once. 27. Macbeth Kemble: Lady Macbeth Mrs. Renaud. 30. Wolsey Kemble :-changed to Hamlet, by Young. 66 31. Young's bt. Othello Young: Desdemona = Miss Stephens, 1st time, with the original air of My mother had a maid called Barbara "--with Richard Cœur de Lion. Richard (for that night only) = Young. Charles Jones: June 1. School for Scandal. Sir Peter Teazle= Fawcett Sir Oliver Terry: Joseph = Young: Sir Benjamin Liston: Crabtree Mathews: Mrs. Candour Mrs. Gibbs: Lady Teazle Mrs. Jordan:-last night of her engagement. 6. Othello Conway: Iago Young. = = 7. Incledon's bt. Castle of Andalusia. Pedrillo Mathews, 1st time: Spado = Liston, 1st time: Don Scipio = Emery. = 8. For bt. of Mathews. Love a-la-Mode. Sir Archy (after the manner of Cooke and for that night only) = Mathews: Sir Callaghan Johnstone, from D. L. Squire Groom Jones: Mordecai Simmons-with Catch him who can. Philip Mathews: Pedrillos Liston: Annie Mrs. Liston :-and Dead Alive. Motley Mathews: Sir Walter Weathercock Blanchard: Miss Hebe Wintertop = Mrs. Davenport Comfit= Mrs. Gibbs :-Mathews spoke part of Hamlet's Advice to the Players in Imitation of several performers. 10. Emery's bt. School for Prejudice. Frank Liberal Jones: Old Liberal Blanchard: Ephraim Fawcett John Grouse Emery: Miss Liberal= Mrs. Davenport: Fanny Liberal Miss S. Booth, 1st time. 11. No play on account of the Illumination— seemingly none on the 9th. 18. This evening will be produced, in compliment to our Illustrious Visitors, an allegorical Festival called the Grand Alliance-the Illustrious Visitors were the Emperour of Russia, the King of Prussia, &c. 15. For bt. of Mr. and Mrs. Liston. A new comic Extravaganza, called Broad but not Long, or How to Damn a New Piece. Nat Nisi Prius = Blanchard Timothy Addle = Liston: Sportly = Hamerton :-characters in the Melo-drama called the Black Princess-Jettiana - Miss Leserve, &c.:-after which, Who wants a Guinea? Barford (1st time and for that night only) Young: Solomon Gundy Liston, 1st time: Torrent-Terry, 1st time: Sir Larry Jones: Andrew Bang = Emery. = 17. Hamlet. Hamlet = Young-with Grand Alliance, &c.—In consequence of the intended visit of the Illustrious Strangers this evening, Taylor's bt. is postponed to the 20th. 21. Farley's bt.-by desire of the Hetman of the Cossacks, Count Platoff-Our Way in France, or Fontainbleau-in 2 acts. Lackland-Jones: Squire Tally-ho Mathews, 1st time: Lapoche (for that night only) Liston -with Mother Goose-and Bluebeard, with Horses. 22. By desire of Prince, Marshal Blucher-Our Way in France-Grand Alliance, &c. 24. Miss S. Booth acted Juliet for her bt. July 1. Mrs. Mac Gibbon acted Lady Macbeth, and Lady Elizabeth Freelove, for her bt. = = 5. For bt. of Mrs. Sterling, Mrs. Faucit, and Vining. Foundling of the Forest. Florian Vining: Unknown Female Mrs. Faucit: Geraldine = Mrs. Vining, from D. L. late Miss Bew: Rosabelle Mrs. Sterling :- with Rival Soldiers. Nipperkin = Mathews. 8. Henry 4th pt. 1st. Prince of Wales Conway, 1st time. 13. By desire of the Duke of Wellington. Farmer's Wife. 15. (Last night) Stranger. 100 nights were devoted to Operas. Mrs. Jordan did not act after this season-a person, who had married one of her daughters, involved her in a debt for £2000-the manner in which he did this preyed on her spirits, and shortened her days-she found it convenient to leave England-settled at St. Cloud near Paris in Nov. 1815-and called herself Mrs. James-On her death, an English Gentleman at Paris, who was intimate with her and with myself, wrote to me, and requested that I would send him a Latin Epitaphwith the assistance of a friend, who is a much better scholar than myself, but unacquainted with the stage, the following lines were written-they were engraved on her tombstone. M. S. Dorothea Jordan, Londini, inque aliis Vocis suavitate, Moribus, habitu, imitandis, Ad exercendam eam, Quá tam feliciter Ut res egenorum E vitâ exiit Tertio Nonas Julii 1816, Annos nata 50. Mementote. Lugete.* All mention of her fine ladies was purposely omitted-as Wilkinson says of Mrs. Cibber's-they are better forgotten. * Sacred to the memory of Dorothea Jordan, who for many years at London, and in the other cities of Britain, was the peculiar ornament of the stage-in comic humour, in sweetness of voice, in acting sprightly girls, and characters of the other sex, she was second to no one-she was always ready to exert her happy talents for the relief of distress-She died July 5th, 1816, aged 50 years-Remember her-Mourn for her. |