By Arthur Miller
Victor, a brand new York cop nearing retirement, strikes between furnishings within the disused attic of a home marked for demolition. cupboards, desks, a broken harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a misplaced lifetime of affluence he's ultimately come to promote. but if his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the debate stops being almost about even if Victor's been provided a good cost for the furnishings, and turns to the fee that one and never the opposite of them paid while their father misplaced either his fortune and the need to move on ...
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At Castle Howard is a picture by Marco Ricci of an opera rehearsal of Pirro e Demetrio Page 16 in which Mrs Tofts is shown with Margherita de l'Épine, Dr Pepusch, Nicolini, and others. There are some six versions of the painting, which are discussed by Eric Walter White in Theatre Notebook, 14, and by Mollie Sands in the same number of that journal (Autumn 1964). It is suggested to us by Joanne Lafler (author of The Celebrated Mrs Oldfield) that a portrait by an unknown engraver which has been identified in the Harvard Theatre Collection catalogue as Mrs Oldfield as Rosamond (published with an edition of Rosamond in 1778) is not Mrs Oldfield but possibly could be Mrs Tofts.
Mr. SPECTATOR, I write to you thus in Haste, to tell you I am very much at Ease here, that I know nothing but Joy; and I will not return, but leave you in England to hiss all Merit of your own Growth off the Stage. I know, Sir, you were always my Admirer, and therefore I am yours, Camilla. S. I am ten times better dress'd than ever I was in England. On 18 September 1716 Alexander Cunningham wrote (in a letter now at the Public Record Office), "As for Mr. Smith he is so much in love wt. Mrs. Tofts he is fitt for nothing at present.
17941795], dresser. See TINLEY, MR. Tinns, Mrs [fl. 1750s], dresser. George Ann Bellamy in her Apology wrote that Mrs Tinns was the dresser she left behind at Drury Lane Theatre when she finished her engagement there. Mrs Tinns therefore must have been active at the theatre in the 1750s. ] Rovedino [fl. 17781780], dancer, singer? Signora Tinte (sometimes, and perhaps correctly, "Tinti") was an Italian dancer whose first recorded appearance in London was at the King's Theatre on 31 October 1775.