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PJ.782.016
26 Feb 1782:32, 33 (1469)
Philadelphia, February 27. . . . [1 paragraph]
Last Thursday night a gentleman in this city most agreeably
amused a respectable number of ladies and gentlemen at this
house, with an elegant Attic evening's entertainment. The
dramatic parts were wrote and conducted by Mr. Walter
Davids, who also displayed an infinite fund of humour in the
character he supported;--Minerva, dressed in all the
emblematic attributes of that sapient Goddess, performed her
part beyond expectation, as indeed did every one of her
graces, attendants, &c.
We should be guilty of a piece of ingratitude were we to
omit mentioning the taste and elegance displayed by the
proprietor in the structure and decorations of Minerva's
throne, who was discovered sitting thereon, attended by six
graces on each side, the curtain rising slowly to soft
music; in which scene the following song was introduced,
accompanied with martial music and chorus:
Gallia's increasing fame
Merits a greater name,
Than words can boast--
Louis, thy annals shine,
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