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CC-H.782.017
5 Feb 1782:21 (889)
Philadelphia, January 23. 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 fidlers, 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 belles-lettres
studies, is engaged in writing a tragedy for speedy
representation, entitled The Siege of Yorktown, in Virginia.
By some specimens, it is thought this piece will melt the
most obdurate hearts, and draw tears even from the eyes of
blind men.
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