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BEP(P.782.013
9 Feb 1782:32 (1/17)
A theatre is established for the winter in the city of New-
York; but although that place abounds with families of rank,
taste and fortune (as we have been told) it is not able to
support a regular company of actors. To supply their place,
the gentlemen of the army, giving up the vain project of
conquering America, have turned fiddlers, pipers, dancers
and stage-players, gratis. Mr. Rivington sells fiddles,
flutes, bagpipes, hautboys, clarinets, fifes, French horns
and Jews harps; so that, let what will happen in the spring,
they seem determined to pipe away the winter as merrily as
so many crickets. It is further added, that a certain
gentleman at present in New-York, well known for his
delicate taste in belle lettres studies, is engaged in
writing a tragedy for speedy presentation, entitled, The
Siege of York-Town, in Virginia. By some specimens, it is
thought this piece will melt the most obdurate hearts, and
draw tears from the eyes of blind men.
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