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PC.773.098
2-9 Aug 1773:1151 (343)
New-York, August 5. On Monday evening the new play called
She Stoops to Conquer, was acted at the theatre in this city
to a judicious and polite audience; its success in England
was unprecedented and on our stage unexampled, Mr. Hallam
and every other actor exerted all their comic powers, and
appeared thrice themselves on this occasion. The excessive
mirth produced by these scenes of genuine wit, fun and
comicality presage a very numerous resort to the last
performance of them, with the facetious distresses of that
jetty varlet Mungo in the Padlock this evening, when the
company will take leave of the town, and in a day or two Mr.
Henry, their treasurer, will set out for Annapolis to
prepare for opening the theatre in that city, at the ensuing
races.
Mrs. Douglass, manager of the American Company of
Comedians, is gone to Charlestown South-Carolina, to arrange
matters against the arrival of the actors, after they have
performed a month at Annapolis.
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