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It was the actors' museum of the city. Its walls were lined with reminders of the stage: playbills, and swords that had seen the service of savage mimic wars; pictures, and frames of clippings, and bits of the wardrobes of kings and queens who had strutted their brief hour and passed away.
At the foot of the playbills were always the words, 'Vivat Respublica. Washington often visited this theater, being particularly gratified by Wignell's performance of Darby, in the 'Poor Soldier. "It was in the theater in John street that the now national air of 'Hail Columbia, then called the 'President's March, was first played.
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