This bill was performed in a run ending before February 9th in 1868 at the Varieties Theatre in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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content: Heir at Law by George Colman the Younger was written in 1797, and featured the character Dr. Peter Pangloss, a pompous tutor prone to quoting major works of literature. This was a part that the star of the production, Joseph Jefferson, repeated frequently. John Singer Sargent painted his portrait in the role. Lend Me Five Shillings by John Maddison Morton, was a farce about mistaken identity among the upper class in Britain. The main character spends the first part of the play trying to get five shillings in order to escort a married woman he has fallen in love with, then is mistaken for the lover of another married woman, then it is revealed that no one has been unfaithful, and that his love is in fact a widow and willing to marry him.