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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The "Late Unfortunate" Theatre. (search)
s predecessor, which stood where the Monumental Church now stands, was burnt also, with great loss of life, on the night of the 26th December, 1811, fifty years and one week ago. We looked into Mr. Mordecai's book to find out when the late Theatre was built, but there is no record of it there. Our impression is that it was completed, at least, in the year 1818, and that it was opened during the winter of '18-'19 for the first time. The first play we ever saw was in that house, in November, 1820. We recollect to this hour the effect it produced upon us, and we are simple enough to regret that we are no longer capable of feeling as we then felt. The play was Virginius. The principal character was sustained by Finn, whether the afterwards famous comedian and punster, who was lost at sea, we do not know. Mrs. Waring--one of the Placides — now Mrs. W. R. Blake, played Virginia, and an actor named Nichols played Icilius. It is difficult for us to realize, at this distance of time