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PJ.768.153
29 Dec 1768:32 (1360)
Positively the last play. Never acted in America. By
authority. By the American Company, at the theatre in
Southwark, to-morrow, being Friday the 30th of December,
will be presented, a tragedy, called
Alexander, The Great, or The Rival Queens.
Alexander by Mr. Hallam, Clytus by Mr. Douglass,
Lysimachus by Mr. Henry, Hephestion by Mr. Wall, Cassander
by Mr. Morris, Polyperchon by Mr. Parker, Philip by Mr.
Tomlinson, Thesalus by Mr. Woolls, Perdiadas by Mr.
Byerley, Eumenus by Mr. Roberts, McLeanger by Mr. Raworth,
Aristander by Mr. Darby, Statira by Miss Hallam,
Sysigambis by Mrs. Douglass, Parisatis by Miss Storer,
Roxana by Miss Cheer.
With entertainments, viz. singing by Mr. Woolls, and Miss M.
Storer.
After the play will be exhibited, by way of interlude, a
specimen of Mr. Footes's oratory of the bar; illustrated by
a representation of the tryal of
Fanny the Fantome, or, The Cock-Lane Ghost.
The orator by Mr. Wall, Serjeant Blarney by Mr. Douglass,
Councellor Prosequi by Mr. Tomlinson, Shadsacti Bodkin by
Mr. Morris, Justice by Mr. Wools, Clerk by Mr. Raworth,
Peter Paragraph (a noted printer in Dublin) by Mr. Wall.
After which Mr. Wall will deliver a critical dissertation,
upon Noses: in which will be exhibited; a turn-up nose; a
ruby nose; a Roman nose; a blunt nose, and a hooked, or
parrots-beak nose.
To which will be added,
The Contrivances.
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