FOOTNOTES
Footnote 1: [(return)]
"La Dame aux Camélias" obtained a license at last, and was played for the first time in England at the Gaiety Theatre, on the 11th June, 1881, with Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt as the representative of the leading character.
Footnote 2: [(return)]He had, it was alleged, entered into a contract to furnish four plays in each year.
Footnote 3: [(return)]Macready, on the occasion of his taking a benefit, invariably refused to receive any payment in excess of the ordinary charges for admission to the theatre, and was wont, with a polite note of thanks, to return the balance to those who, as he judged, had overpaid him for their tickets.
Footnote 4: [(return)]The "Tatler," No. 167, May 4, 1710.
Footnote 5: [(return)]The lady is said to have been so little acquainted with diversion or gaiety, that she did not know what was intended when a benefit was offered her. Praiseworthy efforts were made in her interest, but the performance only produced £130.
Footnote 6: [(return)]The Athenæum.