text:  The audience too so totally different from the mingled ill-dressed and irregular assemblage that fills a city theatre; blooming girls and showy matrons range above range feathered and flowered glittering with all the family jewels and all animated by the novelty of the scene before them formed an exhibition which for the night inspired me with the idea that (strolling excepted) the stage might not be a bad resource for a man of talents after all