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PJ.767.080
4 Jun 1767:32 (1278)
By authority. For the benefit of Miss Wainwright. By the
American Company, at the new theatre, in Southwark, this
present Thursday, the fourth of June will be presented, (not
performed this season) a comedy called
The Country Lasses, or, The Custom of the Manor.
Modeley by Mr. Hallam, Heartwell by Mr. Douglass, Sir John
English by Mr. Allyn, Freehold by Mr. Morris, Lurcher by
Mr. Wall, Vulture by Mr. Tomlinson, Sneak by Mr. Woolls,
Longbottom by Mr. Greville, Carbunckle by Mr. Broadbelt,
Shacklefigure by Mr. Platt Country-man by Mr. Mathews,
Flora by Miss Wainwright, Aura by Miss Cheer.
With entertainments, viz. in act I. The sheep-Shearing Song
by Mr. Woolls, an occasional country dance. End of act I.
God Save the King, by Mr. Wools and Miss Wainwright. End of
act II, The Spinning Wheel, by Miss Wainwright. End of act
III, a duet, written on the Marriage of the Princess Augusta
and the Prince of Brunswick, composed by Doctor Arne and
sung before their majesties; end of act IV, Lovely Nancy by
Miss Wainwright, after the play, dancing by Mr. Mathews.
To which will be added, a musical entertainment, never
performed here, called
The Chaplet.
Damon by Mr. Woolls, Palemon by Mr. Wall, Pastora by Mrs.
Harman, Laura by Miss Wainwright.
To begin exactly at seven o'clock---Vivant Rex & Regina.
Miss Wainwright begs leave to acquaint the public, that
having lost a number of tickets, none but the stampt ones
will be admitted.
Miss Wainwright begs leave to acquaint the town that, the
ceremony of waiting on ladies and gentlemen with bills at
benefits, has been for some years laid aside in this
company: Instead of a mark of respect, which it was
originally designed, it has been often, and not without
reason, taken in the light of an importune solicitation,
equally painful to the friends of the theatre and the
performers. She, therefore, flatters herself, that this
circumstance alone, sufficiently points out the impropriety
of a personal application.
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