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As the writer intends making further obfervations on private Theatricals, he cannot conclude this account without cenfuring the manager. The fcenery is appropriate, the orcheftra refpedtable; indeed every thing feems to tend to afford amufement if a proper fyftem was obferved, which it is his duty to look to. Too many tickets being iffued deprives the comforts of the audience, and many retire glad to eicape the danger of entering the range of feats from the extreme croud. This is not the only circumftance which fhould be rectified j a fine fhould be levied agaiiift thofe who amufe themfelves with playing from the fide-wings with the characters before the audience, which has been too often the cafe; fuch are infults to the company before the curtain.The next play, we hear, is to be the Mountaineers, in which a Gentleman who has frequently fhewn confiderable abilities is to play Oft avian for the firft time.
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How Do You Do

London, Middlesex, GB

Sat, Aug 13, 1796

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