Mrs. Jordan - James Boadan - Google Books

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CONTENTS

Benefits for the Family of John Palmer, at Liverpool and

in London - The Stranger Acted by Kemble Safely

Throughout - The Melancholy Leave Which Palmer, in

the Summer, Took of the Author-" Cambro-Britons "

Jackson of Exeter-The Author's Second Ghost an

Absolute Apotheosis-Powell from Norwich

tive of Spilsberg"- Mrs. Siddons Absent, from Family

Calamity-"Aurelio and Miranda" - Fine Acting of

- An Antiquary - His

Annoyances Displayed - The "Secret," by Morris

Rosa Acted by Mrs. Jordan - Admirable Epilogue

Spoken Twice by Mrs. Jordan -

"Banquet Gallery "

Begs the Author's

Opinion of the "East Indian" - An Interview upon

the Subject-Her Son, the Present Colonel George

Fitzclarence-His "Travels from India" Commended

- The "Birthday"- Kotzebue and Sterne

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The Summer Theatre Antiquary Assails the "Red Cross

Knights"-Falls Foul of Poor O'Keefe's "Peeping

Tom"- His Anachronisms - Colman Not to Be Moved

by the Twaddler-The Winter Season of Drury Could

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Not Begin with “Pizarro”— Kotzebue's Monopoly of

"Seduction" Gluts the Market-A Fable of This Kind

Dished Up by Mrs. Inchbald, and Called the "Wise

Man of the East" - Fable of the "East Indian," by

Lewis- Miss Biggs Assumes Mrs. Jordan's Character,

Zorayda - Mrs. Jordan's Confinement in December, at

Bushy-How Managers Suffer by These Natural Im-

pediments - Kemble without Heroines, Resorts to Mono-

drames - The Antiquary Admires His Richard, but Has

a Long List of Errors in the Getting Up of the Play-

France and Banting - King Henry Not Uncovered —

The Missal to Throw after the Mayor and Aldermen

-No Armour in the Play, but in the Mouths of the

Actors My Friend Elliston, the Real Patron of True

Armour His Three Splendid Suits - The Civic Festi-

-Gog and Magog - Kean -A Basso-relievo of

Richard Dying Pointed Out to Him-Mrs. Jordan's

Return to Drury

Season of 1800-01 Kemble Opened with His Hamlet -

Probable Result of His Purchasing — The "Indian

Doctor Houlton's Prologue-Innocent Operas — Vaux-

hall Hooke-The Plowdens —"Virginia," An Opera-

Kemble Ready to Withdraw It-"Bold Stroke for a

Wife," the Stop-gap- "Antonio," Another Sacrifice

The Procession of Tragedies - Mrs. Siddons - Shake-

speare Revivals - Hopes of the Renters - Want of

Colours and Canvas in the Painting-room- Aversion

to Modern Plays - Even Colman Not Engaged to

Write Comedy Apparent Jealousy Mrs. Jordan,

Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers-The Modern

Writers Ignorant of Female Character-Cumberland

and Burgoyne-The Latter Would Have Written for

Jordan - Jealousy of Kemble-Cooke invited to Co-

vent Garden-Sketch of That Strange Being - Made

a Rival to Kemble in Richard-Permitted a Year's

Kemble and Cooke as Macbeth-Cooke's

True Power-His Dislike of Kemble-The Country

Girl Returns to the Stage in March.

Decided Hostilities of 1801-02- Kemble Now Challenges

Comparison No Coals from Newcastle Lewis's

Apology-The Faculty Bulletins-Cooke's Marriage

Annulled-Next Month He Really Arrives, and Tri-

umphs- Prevalence of Drunkenness - Mrs. Billington

Sings for Both Houses - Siddons, Henry, and His "In-

tegrity"- As an Actor- Marries Miss Murray — Isa-

bella's Own Son-Mrs. Billington's Accident - Quick,

the Cunning Isaac, at Drury-Difficult Music - Nasó-

lini - Kemble's Zanga, and Fifth Henry-Reynolds at

the Other House - Nothing Written for Mrs. Jordan

-Poaching at Strawberry Hill - The "Fashionable

Friends " Seduction and Sentiment - Lady Selina,

Miss Decamp - Sketch of That Character-Cobbett

would Not Illuminate on the Peace-Applies for a

Guard-Answer of the Minister- M. Otto's House

and Mr. Bull's Mistake - Concord Declared an Insult

by Acclamation- M. Otto Found the Schoolmaster Not

Abroad Amity versus Concord, Adopted - Mrs. Jor-

dan in Lady Teazle- Mrs. Jordan at Richmond and

Margate Season 1802-03 - Mrs. Jordan's Painter,

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ity Never Pleasing - Midas and the Immortals Really

Ascending-Foote's Hamlet- Pope-Sir Richard Ford

Issues His Warrant for Colonel Despard - C. Kemble's

Foil-Mr. Turner - Angelo's Opinion of Him as a

Fencer - Holcroft's "Hear both Sides" Heard, but

Not Liked-A Preface; Every One Will Not Sell for

a Guinea — “ John Bull,” Written by Colman for Covent

Garden - Curious Challenge of the Little Manager-

The "Marriage Promise," by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's

Emma Harvey-The Author Curtails "Falstaff's Wed-

ding," for R. Palmer - Hamlet the Dane, His Excesses

- Death of James Aickin, Misses Kemble in the Field

-And the Author Colman Opens on the 15th of

May - Charles Mathews at Home- Old Wiggins —

Mrs. Litchfield Reëstablishes the Dane again - Joins

with Mrs. Jordan in a Kindness to Poor Lee Lewes

The Violante Nervous- - Mrs. Litchfield's Attention

to Her Astley's Theatre Burnt-Death of Tate Wil-

kinson - Death of Jos. Richardson, a Proprietor of

Drury-Richardson's Funeral-Mrs. Jordan Estab-

lishes Her First Family in Golden Square

The Reservoirs of Some Use at Drury Lane -

van" and the Dog Carlo-Story of the Piece-Sheri-

dan and His Preserver" Cinderella" and her Slipper,

with Venus and the Graces - Cherry's "Soldier's Daugh-

Mrs. Jordan in the Widow Cheerly - Her

Epilogue, a Female Army-The "Sailor's Daughter,"

by Cumberland Mrs. Jordan's Benefit- The "Middle

Dish"- Bannister Returns to the Haymarket - Fawcett

Makes a Ballet from the Action of Shakespeare's "Tem-

pest "The "Gay Deceivers "-Elliston and His Ad-

dress- Master Betty at Edinburgh — Home and His

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"Douglas"-A Really Great Genius of the North

Descending to Works below Him— Rewriting All Our

- Substitutes Standard Works to Be Care-

fully Reprinted - The Followers of Didot - His Appli-

cation at Seventy-three- Elliston at the Opera House

- Mrs. Jordan Herself Opens the Season of 1804-05

in Widow Cheerly Mathews and Elliston Now at

Drury - Miss Duncan's First Night - Phantom Lathom

and His "Dash"-A Fête Royal at Weymouth -

Elliston and Miss Decamp- The Royal Game, and the

Michaelmas Goose on a Birthday - Another Farce for

Mrs. Jordan, Called “ Matrimony”.

The Young Roscius Acts Norval to Great Houses - The

Nightly Average-The Receipts of His Twenty-eight

Nights at Drury-Talk of Erecting Statues - Opie and

Northcote Paint Whole-lengths-Duke of Clarence

Accepts the Dedication of Northcote's Picture — Medi-

cal Men Usually Wild about the Stage-The Profes-

sional Policy-One Physician Supremely Ridiculous—

Betty Taken to the “ Adelphi ”— A Westminster Dormi-

tory - Introduced to the Archbishop of York - Probable

Advice from Markham-Old Actors Affect to Admire

the Boy, Because They Hated Kemble-Mrs. Litchfield

Strikes a Blow for Her Own Benefit - How It Benefited

Others - Kemble Appears in "Othello"- The Town

Begins to Awake "Richard the Third" Acted by the

Little Duke of York-The Boy for the First Time

Hissed Siddons, after Long Absence, Returns-

Kemble Now Presumes to Act "Macbeth"- Miss Mudie

-The Fund Applies to Betty to Act a Night for His

Poor Brethren-Aid Refused-A Peep at Coventry in

Passion Week-Hough, the Prompter, versus Betty-

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