“I really believe I was really funny; at least, I know that I laughed heartily myself and made the part a character such as you and I know very well—a mixture of F. Harley Yates, Keeley and ‘Jerry Sneak.’ It went with a vim all the way through; and as I am closing, they have told me that I was so well made up that Sir Charles Bagot, who sat in the stage box, had no idea who played ‘Mr. Snobbington’ until the piece was over. * * *
“All the ladies were capital and we had no wait or hitch for an instant. You may suppose this when I tell you that we began at eight and had the curtain down at eleven. * * * It is their custom here to prevent heart-burnings, in a very heart-burning town, whenever they have played in private, to repeat the performance in public, so on Saturday (substituting, of course, real actresses for the ladies) we repeat the two first pieces to a paying audience, for the manager’s benefit. * * * I send you a bill to which I have appended a key.”
The programme was as follows:
PRIVATE THEATRICALS.
Committee
| Mrs. Torrens | W.E. Ermatinger, Esq. |
| Mrs. Berry | Capt. Torrens |
| The Earl of Mulgrave. | |
| Stage Manager | Charles Dickens |
Queen’s Theatre, Montreal, | |
| Wednesday Evening, May 25, 1842. | |
| Will Be Performed | |
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.
| Mrs. Selborne | Mrs. Torrens |
| Maria Darlington | Miss Griffin |
| Mrs. Fixture | Miss Ermatinger |
| Mr. Selborne | Lord Mulgrave |
| Alfred Highflyer | Mr. Charles Dickens |
| Sir Mark Chase | Hon. Mr. Methuen |
| Fixture | Captain Willoughby |
| Gamekeeper | Captain Granville |
After the Interlude, in one scene, (from the French) called | |