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MS-W.782.007
7 Feb 1782:32 (561)
A theatre is established during 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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