| Show P Pa a By JOHN BAUER General r Vall Music Hall Hail Insisting that if a person advertised that he be would creep into a quart bottle he would woul l procure an audi audi- audience once ence the Duke of Montague was challenged aril and a wager was the result He adver adver- advertised in in all the London newspapers announcing that thata a certain bottle conjurer would appear at the New Theatre in the Haymarket Of the result we quote the following account from the journals of the times 1749 Last night viz Monda Monday the the much ex- ex expected ex drama of The Tho Dot Dot- Dottie tie Conjurer at the New Theatre in t the e Haymarket ended in the comical trag manner following Curiosity had drawn together prodigious ous numbers About seven the The The- Theatre atre being lighted up with with- without out so much as a fIddle to keep the audience in good humour many grew im im- im patient ImmediatEly fol fold owed lowed a chorus of catcalls heightened by loud vociferations and beating with sticks when a fellow came from behind the curtain and bowing said that if the performer did not appear the tho money should be reo re- returned turned at the same time a awag awag wag crying out from the pit that if the ladies and d gentle gentlemen men would u give double ie prices the conjurer would get into a pint bottle Presently a young gen gen- gentleman gentleman in one of the boxes seized a lighted candle and threw it on the stage This served as the charge for sounding to battle Upon this the greater part of the audience made the best of their way out of the Theatre some losing n a cloak others a hat bat others a wig and swords also One party however staid in the house in order to demolish the inside insider when the mob breaking in they tore up the benches broke to pie pieces es the scenes pulled down the boxes in short dismantled the Theatre entirely carry carry- ing carrying away the particulars above mentioned into the street where they made a mightY bonfire the curtain being hoisted on a pole by byway byway way of a flag A large party of guards were sent for but came time enough only to warm themselves around the fire We hear of no other disaster than a young nobleman's chin being hurt occasioned by his fall faH into the pit with part of one of the boxes which he had forced out with his bis foot thought con con- conjurer jurer vanished away with the bank Many enemies to a late celebrated book concerning the ceasing of miracles are greatly disappointed by the conjurers conjurer's nonappearance non in the bottle they imagining imagining ing that his jumping into it would have been the most convincing proof possible that miracles are not yet ceased |
