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VGW(HU.771.052
2 May 1771:12 (1031)
London. . . Last night, about ten, the grand subscription
masked ball was opened in Soho. The convenient elegance and
propriety to accommodate and please the company was
generally admired; the provisions were in abundance, and
among them every thing remarkably good and rare; in short,
the whole gave universal satisfaction to the happy crowd,
and great credit to the conductress. . . . [a paragraph
describing the costumes, including] An excellent humorous
Punch, with castanets, full of mirth . . .
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