pp.222-4 (under Shoreditch Olympia).

“GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE, Shoreditch. A large and elegant theatre, capable of containing four thousand and three hundred persons, rebuilt in 1850, from designs by Mr. John Douglass, and opened October 19th, having many improvements in its interior arrangements, evidently suggested by a desire to do every thing that is possible, in order to afford both convenience to the audience, and accommodation for the somewhat ambitious nature of the performances. What the Adelphi Theatre, from its situation is to the Strand and the West End, this house is to Shoreditch and the East End; standing as it does in a leading thoroughfare, directly opposite the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway, and in the midst of a dense neighbourhood, it is nightly filled to overflowing, and while the prices are such as to meet the wants of its patrons, the aim of the management would seem to be that of giving a superior style of entertainment, a course, which if resolutely persevered in, must ultimately raise this theatre in public estimation, and redound to the permanent advantage of the proprietor. Lessee Mr. John Douglass, formerly lessee of the Marylebone Theatre, who has collected around him an excellent working company amongst whom may be named the lessee himself, Mr. Lyon, Mr. W. Cowle, Mr. Joseph Rayner, and Mr. R. Honner; and Mrs. Cowle, Miss S. Leslie, and Mrs. R. Honner. Doors open at a quarter past six o clock; performances commence at a quarter before seven. Admission: private boxes, two shillings; dress circle, one shilling and sixpence; lower circle, one shilling; pit stalls, eightpence; pit, sixpence; gallery, fourpence; upper gallery, threepence” (221).