San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 May 1867, 8:00 PM
28 May 1867, 8:00 PM
29 May 1867, 8:00 PM
30 May 1867, 8:00 PM
31 May 1867, 8:00 PM
01 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

All Right performs with his trained cat.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

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

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]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 May 1867, 3.

2)

Review: New York Herald, 31 May 1867, 3.

“The burly Birch, the melodious Wambold, the sedate Bernard and the comic Backus still draw like a quadruple magnet, a patent corkscrew or a double team on a racing day. The imperial Japanese troupe, imported expressly from No. 585 Broadway, the African ballet and the Firing Scud, are still on the boards and will be as long as their patrons are capable of a laugh. The trouble commences at eight. The ‘cheerful burlesques’ immediately follow.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 01 June 1867, 64.