An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Michael Rophino Lacy's Doing for the Best on 24 April 1868. The evening's entertainment also included gymnastics and 'Barlow's inimitable versatile entertainment'.
The Empire notes the 23 April 1868 performance of Doing for the Best and comments on Mr Barlow's repeat of his 'admirable performances' and his upcoming benefit.
The program for Miss Aitken's recital included, among other items, the following: 'The Blind Iolanthe' from Danish playwright Henrick Hertz's King René's Daughter, one of Douglas Jerrold's 'Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures', and selections from William Motherwell, Alfred Tennyson and William Shakespeare.
