New Theatre. The Managers have the pleasure to acquaint the Public, that Mr. Mathews Is Engaged for four nights more, previously to his leaving this Country, and will appear on Monday, In Wild Oats and the Diligence; On Wednesday, in his Youthful Days; On Thursday, in Such Things Are, and the Christmas at Brighton; And on Saturday, he will take his farewell of the Philadelphia audience in the Review, Polly Packet, & Mons. Tonson. Monday Evening, March 24, 1823, will presented a favourite Comedy, called Wild Oats; Or, the Strolling Gentlemen. Jack Rover, (with Imitations) Mr. Mathews. ... : After which, a Mono-polo-logue, descriptive of La Diligence. Diligenciae Personae. Jemmy, an English Boots at the Foreign Office, Mr. Mathews! ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835, actor.

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 77.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833. Wild oats.

Smith, James, 1775-1839. Diligence.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Playbills.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 33.6 x 19.4 cm

Other Title:

Wild Oats, or, the Strolling Gentlemen

Wild Oats

Strolling Gentlemen

Diligence

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1823]

Notes:

Printed area measures 32.8 x 15.3 cm.

Performance date: March 24, 1823.

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: closely cropped at bottom margin, with some loss of text.

Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 77 in a collection of playbills housed together.

OCLC:

951625887