San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 May 1867, 8:00 PM
21 May 1867, 8:00 PM
22 May 1867, 8:00 PM
23 May 1867, 8:00 PM
24 May 1867, 8:00 PM
25 May 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: San Francisco Minstrels; African ballet troupe; William P. Grier [minstrel]; Billy Birch [minstrel]; David S. Wambold; William H. [minstrel] Bernard; Charley Backus

2)

Imperial Japanese Troupe, [burlesque]

aka Japanese burlesque

3)

Break neck act, The

aka breakneck act

4)

5)

Living photographs

aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits

6)

Belle of the ballroom

aka Bell of the ballroom

7)

Black cook, The, [COOK--no R; this is the ballet, not the play at Niblo's!]

aka Greasy black cook; Screaming black cook, The; Screaming black crook; Little crooks

Participants: African ballet troupe

8)

Flying scuds, [burlesque]

9)

"Birds will come again, The"

Composer(s): Thomas

Text Author: Cooper [comp-lyricist]

10)

"Come home, Father"

Composer(s): Work

Participants: David S. Wambold

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 May 1867, 7.

2)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 May 1867, 56.

3)

Review: New York Herald, 25 May 1867, 8.

“Messrs. Birch and Wambold are still maintaining the even ‘tenor’ of their way in their habitat at 585 Broadway. Mr. Wambold sang excellently on Thursday evening ‘Come Home, Father,’ and Mr. Grier is a decided acquisition to the company. The San Francisco Minstrels sport a ‘Japanese Troupe,’ also, like the rest of their musical fraternity.”

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 01 June 1867, 62, 2d col., bottom .

“The San Francisco Minstrels know how to get up a good programme as well as how to perform it. Each local event is touched upon in dark colors, and new ballads weekly added to their list. In fun or sentiment, in vocalization or instrumentation, the boys of Frisco keep up the interest of their entertainment, and thereby gain the popular favor.”