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MJ.782.147
31 Dec 1782:32 [=42] (9/52 487)
(By permission.) At the sign of the Indian-King, in
Baltimore, in a large room fitted up in a theatrical manner,
every Monday and Thursday, if fair, for a few weeks, the
noted Old Artist will exhibit his grand medley of
entertainments, consisting of sundry curious performances,
by Dexterity of Hand.
Interspersed with moral and entertaining lectures On the Art
of Deception and the Force of Credulity.
With the Comical, farcical, operatical, whimsical humours
of
Seignor Punchinello, and his articifical Company of
Comedians, near four feet high, properly dressed, by whom
will be performed a Play and Farce, with a variety of drolls
and interludes Between the parts, sundry incidental
Prologues and Epilogues, particularly a piece by way of
introduction;
2d. the impossibility of pleasing every body; 3d, a defence
for lying, to begin with the old noted artist's most amazing
table tricks, and slight of hand, by a number of different
fancies, not enumerated --whose uncommon performances in
that art are so well known, throughout all the nations of
Europe, and States of America, for 30 years past, as to need
no recommendation. With his arms extended, he, by scent
only, carries every gentleman's hat in the room with his
nose--or any thing proposed, of equal weight. --
To which will be added, fifty figures, representing the
various nations of the earth, in their proper colours and
dresses, from four to eight feet, with moral lectures on
each figure.
Tickets, at five shillings each; Children at half a
dollar, or one ticket for two, if under ten years, may be
had at the printing-office, or at the Old Man's Room.
To begin at seven o'clock:
[hand pointing right] Strict regularity and decorum will
be observed; with such additions to the entertainments as
can possibly be obtained.
Gay-Street, Baltimore, Nov. 30, 1782.
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