Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1766.12.25

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Index Entry Actor, Allyn, Mr, to play French Man in Lethe [t] 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PG-P.766.034
25 Dec 1766:33 (1983)
By Authority.  By the American Company, at the new Theatre,
in Southwark, this present Friday, being the 26th of
December, will be presented, a Tragedy, called, 
Theodosius, or the Force of Love.  
With a view of the grand altar, as at the first
establishment of the Christian religion at Constantinople. 
The vision of Constantine the Great, a bloody cross in the
air, with these words, In hoc Signa vinces, &c &c. &c.  
Varanes, by Mr. Hallam.  Theodosius, by Mr. Morris. 
Marcian, by Mr. Douglass.  Atticus, by Mr. Tomlinson. 
Leontine, by Mr. Allyn.  Aranthes, by Mr. Wall.  Lucius, by
Mr. Woolls. Pulcheria, by Mrs. Harman.  Marina, by Miss
Hallam.  Flavilla, by Miss Wainwright.  Julia, by Miss
Dowthwait. Delia, by Mrs. Tomlinson.  Athenais, by Miss
Cheer.  With the usual musick; the vocal parts by Mr.
Woolls, Miss Wainwright, Miss Hallam, Mrs. Morris, &c. &c.
&c.
To which will be added, 
Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades.  
Drunken Man, by Mr. Hallam.  Frenchman, by Mr. Allyn.  Old
Man, by Mr. Moris.  Mercury (with songs) Mr.  Woolls. Fine
Gentleman, by Mr. Wall.  Charon, by Mr. Tomlinson.  Aesop,
by Mr. Douglass.  Mrs. Tattoo by Mrs. Harman.  Mrs. Riot
(with a song in character) by Miss Wainwright.
To begin exactly at six o'clock.---Vivant Rex & Regina.
No persons can, on any pretence whatsoever, be admitted
behind the scenes.---Tickets are sold at the London-Coffee
House, at Mr. Francis's, at the Queen's Head, in Water-
street, at Mr. George Hawkins's, in Walnut-street, and at
Mrs. Scott's, in Lombard-street, where places for the boxes
may be taken.---Ladies and gentlemen will please to send
their servants at four o'clock, to keep their places in the
boxes.---Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1766.12.25 
Publisher Hall, David, and William Sellers 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1766 
Bibliography B0036721
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