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MJ.783.005
14 Jan 1783:43 (10/2 489)
(By permission.) At the sign of Saint Patrick, Fell's
Point, in a large room fitted up in a theatrical manner,
every Monday and Thursday, if fair, for a few weeks, the
noted Old Artist will exhibit his grand medley of
entertainments, consisting of sundry curious performances,
by Dexterity of Hand.
Interspersed with moral and entertaining lectures On the Art
of Deception and the Force of Credulity.
With the Comical, farcical, operatical, whimsical humours
of Seignor Punchinello,
and his articifical Company of Comedians, near four feet
high, properly dressed, by whom will be performed a Play and
Farce, with a variety of drolls and interludes Between the
parts, sundry incidental Prologues and Epilogues,
particularly a piece by way of introduction;
2d. the impossibility of pleasing every body;
3d, a defence for lying, to begin with the old noted
artist's most amazing table tricks, and slight of hand, by a
number of different fancies, not enumerated --whose uncommon
performances in that art are so well known, throughout all
the nations of Europe, and States of America, for 30 years
past, as to need no recommendation. With his arms extended,
he, by scent only, carries every gentleman's hat in the room
with his nose--or any thing proposed, of equal weight. --
To which will be added, fifty figures, representing the
various nations of the earth, in their proper colours and
dresses, from four to eight feet, with moral lectures on
each figure.
Tickets, at five shillings each; Children at half a
dollar, or one ticket for two, if under ten years, may be
had at the printing-office, or at the Old Man's Room.
To begin at seven o'clock:
[hand pointing right] Strict regularity and decorum will
be observed; with such additions to the entertainments as
can possibly be obtained.
Baltimore, January 9, 1782.
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