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SG(H.782.008
7 Feb 1782:33 (1/17)
Boston, February 7. A theatre is established for the winter
in the city of New-York; but altho' 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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