Description | Includes references to Mr Frankland; the fine Autumn and its effects on life in London; the Managers of the Playhouses beginning to exert themselves; Garrick having already played some of his top characters and exhibited his famous Italian Dancers, who jump very high and turn about on one leg long enough to turn the heads of the spectators; Mr Murphy, who wrote the Gray Inn Journal having made his first appearance in the part of Othello and was much applauded but the house was so thin the second and third night it may be looked on as a Tacit Damnation; Rich having exhibited Mrs Woffington and Mr Sheridan, who each filled his house, Mr Sheridan playing Hamlet and there being great Expectations from the Opera |