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VGW(HU.773.119
26 Aug 1773:22 (1152)
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 comick
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 Charlestown, South Carolina, to arrange matters
against the arrival of the actors, after they have performed
a month at Annapolis.
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