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NM.782.008
16 Feb 1782:41 (1064)
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 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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