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VGW(RI.773.070
26 Aug 1773:23 (381 Supplement)
New York, . . . August 5. On Monday evening the new play
called She Stoops to Conquer was acted at the 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, when
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
races.
Mr. Douglas, 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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