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NYP-F.782.011
31 Jan 1782:32 (249)
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 belles lettres studies, is engaged in
writing a tragedy for speedy representation, 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 even from the eyes of blind men.
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