The National Theatre marvels at some 200-year-old theater gossip
Jones was in Washington. She explained that her boardinghouse was preferable to her previous accommodations — in Baltimore — which had left her “half starved and smothered in dirt.” Washington was superior, though the cost of her room — $14 a week — was pricey.
“Everything is very high,” Jones wrote. “They take every advantage during the session. It is their harvest and they make the most of it.”Jones was in Washington to perform at the National Theatre, which was only a year old when she wrote to. Scans of that letter and another Jones wrote a month later were made available to the National“I was thrilled — and fascinated by the content,”“This place is very gay at present,” Jones wrote. “We have the great folks of all nations assembled here.
Jones wrote that the National was “very handsome and comfortable but has not been so well attended as it ought.”Jones was appearing in a two-act farce called “Scan. Mag, or The Village Gossip,” by English playwrightThat odd title? “Scan. Mag” is short for “scandalum magnatum,” a Latin expression used in Britain to describe slander against politicians. Jones played the gossip, Mrs. Caudle.I couldn’t find a review of the play in any contemporary newspapers, but on Dec.
and [his] wife are here. He gave two concerts, not well attended. The fact is there are so many private parties among the fashionables they have no time to devote to publick amusements.”Antonio López de Santa AnnaJones described him as a “cold-blooded murderer” but allowed that Santa Anna’s presence would guarantee a full house. “He will prove a very attractive Star,” she wrote.
I’d love to have met “Aunty Jones,” as she described herself in one letter, not only to talk with her about the Washington of the 1830s but to hear more about her friends. She mentions mutual acquaintances to Sarah, including a woman named“The fact is, her letters are so filled with discontent and unhappiness that I gave her a blowing up in my last [letter], which I presume has given her offence,” Jones wrote.
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