Mind Your Language | 17 May 2003

Sir Ned Sherrin is beautifully vindicated by Mrs Beeton. He had wondered (Mind your language, 15 March) whether ‘morning performances’ of plays mightn’t, like other morning social activities of the mid-19th century, have been undertaken in the afternoon. His particular interest was the

matinée performances staged by Squire Bancroft at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, which he took over in 1865.