.................FREDERICK RANALOW
_FILCH_...........................ALFRED HEATHER
_THE BEGGAR_......................ARNOLD PILBEAM
_MRS. PEACHUM_....................ELSIE FRENCH
_POLLY PEACHUM_...................SYLVIA NELIS
_LUCY LOCKIT_.....................VIOLET MARQUESITA
_DIANA TRAPES_....................BERYL FREEMAN
_JENNY DIVER_.....................NONNY LOCK

_Drawer_: DAVID HODDER
_Turnkey_: JACK GIRLING

_Members of Macheath's Gang_:

ALAN TROTTER,
MALCOLM RIGNOLD,
JOHN CLIFFORD,
EDWARD BARRS,
CHARLES STAITE

_Women of the Town_:

VERA HURST,
ELLA MILNE,
WINIFRED CHRISTIE,
MILDRED WATSON,
SYDNEY LEON,
EDITH BARTLETT

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PERIOD 1728

ACT I. PEACHUM'S HOUSE
ACT II. Sc. i. A TAVERN. Near Newgate
Sc. ii. NEWGATE
ACT III. Sc. i. A STREET
Sc. ii. NEWGATE
Sc. iii. THE CONDEMN'D HOLD

_Scenes and Costumes designed by C. Lovat Fraser_.

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Produced by NIGEL PLAYFAIR

INDEX

"Absence," 5; _quoted_, 6
"Achilles," 134, 135, 141, 142
"Acis and Galatea," 134
Addison, Joseph, 11, 12, 13-14, 16, 23, 37, 44
Alais, J.D'., 28
Anne, Queen, 24, 33
"Araminta," 20
Arbuthnot, Dr., 22, 23, 24, 29, 34, 41, 42, 44, 51, 58, 66, 94, 95,
105, 109, 146;
_letters quoted_:
to Parnell, 39;
to Pope, 138;
to Swift, 30, 34, 102, 109, 111, 145
Argyll, Duke of, 80
Aston (actor), 142
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, 12, 23

Baller, Anthony (brother-in-law of the poet), 2
Mrs. Anthony, _i.e.,_ Gay, Katherine (_q. v._)
Rev. Joseph (nephew of the poet), 2, 140;
his "Gay's Chair," _quoted_, 4
Barber, Mrs., 127
Bathurst, Lord, 50, 54, 58, 72, 92, 145;
letter to Swift, _quoted_, 145,
"Beggar's Opera, The," 41, 75, 78-91;
"Notes on the Sources of the Tunes of 'The Beggar's Opera,'" by W.H.
Grattan Flood, Mus. D., 150;
programme of the revival at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, June, 1920, 162.
Bellenden, Madge, 47
Mary, 46, 47, 49
Berkeley, Hon. George, 140
Bicknell, Mrs., 37, 42
Binks, Mrs., 142
Bloodworth, Mr., 131
Blount, Martha, 47, 72, 94, 130, 131
Teresa, 47
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 12, 24, 25, 35, 68, 90, 92
Viscountess, 92
Bolton, Duchess of, _see_ Fenton, Lavinia
Bradshaw, Mrs., 55
Bridgeman, 131
_British Apollo_, 9
Bromley, Mr. Secretary, 29
Buchanan (actor), 142
Buckingham, Lord, 15
Budgell, Eustace, 18
Bullock, H., 80
Bu