"The supper, after the play, was magnificent in the extreme, and consisted of a profusion of all the delicacies of the season. Besides Soups, and every dainty meat, there were pine apples, new grapes, cherries, strawberries, &c.
"After the supper, there was a Masquerade, and Ball, which was quite unexpected to the Company. The Margravine had provided new dresses for all the company, and the Ladies, and Gentlemen, each dressed in separate rooms. The Duke of Clarence changed his dress seven different times, and greatly added to the hilarity of the entertainment. The Prince was in a domino."—(Times, April 27, 1793.)
"It having been observed, in some public prints, that the Hon. Mrs. Twisleton was the first female of fashion who had made the stage her profession, it is but justice to notice, that Mrs. Holman (the ci-devant Mrs. Hughes) who made her debut in Dublin, some years since, has a priority to public notice on this account: if real rank by birth, education, and fortune, give a title to distinction, if admission to the first orders of fashionable society have pretensions, the friends of that Lady have certainly a right to enter her claims on this subject."—(Times, Feb. 13, 1794.)
Mr. Quick as Scrub; Mr. Ryder as Falstaff.
Kemble, as Hamlet; Kemble, as Lear.
OPENING OF NEW DRURY.
"Public curiosity, which has long been on the tip-toe of expectation, was yesterday gratified by the opening of this superb edifice, under the immediate management of Mr. Kemble, whose approved talents well entitle him to so flattering a mark of distinction. Of this Theatre, language must be inadequate to give even a faint idea of the effect it produces on the spectator, at his entré: nor does the first impression in the least diminish from a more minute examination into its structure, and decorations: the whole forming a happy combination of the gay, and the grand. The Stage, fitted as it was for an Oratorio, presented a nouvelle, and pleasing, prospect. The representation of a Gothic Cathedral, with the 'Long sounding Isle,' and
'Storied windows richly dight
Casting a dim religious light,'