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VGW(HU.769.010
2 Feb 1769:13 (924)
London. . . Nov. 5. . . It is said that a celebrated author
of comick pieces, being asked how he would provide striking
characters for the entertainment of the town next summer,
declared he could not want proper objects of ridicule while
Westminster Hall was so near at hand, and that the law gown
covered as many oddities as the medical wig.
Many young children of fashion are now studying several
different plays, in order to perform them, the ensuing
winter, before their parents, and others of the nobility and
gentry.
A Frenchman, who resided in England for some time, has
lately opened a house and gardens in Paris, with musick,
singing, dancing, &c. to which he has given the name of
Vauxhall ala mode de Londres; and it has met with such an
amazing reception that it is computed there have scarcely
been less than 3000 people there, and among them many
noblemen and ladies of the first distinction.
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