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RNYG.773.056
5 Aug 1773:31 (16)
New-York, August 5. On Monday evening the new play called
She Stoops to Conquer, was acted at this 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, which
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
rates.
Mr. Douglass, Manager of the American Company of
Comedians, is gone to Charles-Town, South-Carolina, to
arrange matters against the arrival of the actors, after
they have performed a month at Annapolis.
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