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[5] 'Yates:' Richard Yates, another low actor of the period.
[6] 'Foote:' Samuel Foote, the once well-known farcical writer, (now
chiefly remembered from Boswell's Life of Johnson), opened the Old
House in the Haymarket, and, in order to overrule the opposition of
the magistrates, announced his entertainments as 'Mr Foote's giving
tea to his friends.'
[7] 'Wilkinson:' Wilkinson, the shadow of Foote, was the proprietor of
Sadler's Wells Theatre.
[8] 'Palmer:' John Palmer, a favourite actor in genteel comedy, who
married Miss Pritchard, daughter of the celebrated actress of that
name.
[9] 'Barry:' Spranger Barry, an actor of first-rate eminence and tall
of size. Barry was a competitor of Garrick. Every one remembers the
lines in a poem comparing the two--
'To Barry we give loud applause;
To Garrick only tears.'
[10] 'Coan:' John Coan, a dwarf, showed himself, like another Tom
Thumb, for sixpence a-head.
[11] 'Ackman:' Ackman ranked as one of the lowest comic actors of his
time.
[12] 'Sterne:' the celebrated Laurence Sterne.


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