* Chaplinmay not have been accurately reported. Drury Lane in the years when he could have known it had a capacity of no more than 3000: even for the famous children’s matinees, twice that number could hardly have been squeezed in. The names he quotes, also, are unrecorded and certainly do not feature on Drury Lane programmes of the period.
* Tabs are defined in Valentyne Napier’s Glossary of Terms used in Variety, Vaudeville, Revue & Pantomine (1996) as the professional name for curtains (originally tableaux curtains which could be drawn off to the sides).