Tony Pastor’s Opera House

“THE BURLESQUE SKETCH on Lingard’s Changes, as performed by him at the Theatre Comique, and done up in cork by Billy Sheppard and Frank Kerns at Tony Pastor’s Opera House, is one of the most successful and amusing acts of it kind we have seen. Frank Kerns first appears as the swell with the song of ‘Bitter Beer,’ and his make-up and singing is a capital take-off on Lingard. He has caught the peculiar walk and actions of that performer exactly. Billy Sheppard then quickly follows with the song ‘Captain Jinks,’ and although his voice is not exactly suited to it, yet he does very well, imitating Mr. Lingard very closely in his walk. Frank Kerns then appears in female attire, with the song ‘All Through the Park I Go,’ followed by Sheppard as the ‘Guinea Pig Boy,’ Kerns as the ‘Hat Vender’ [sic], and finishing with Sheppard as the lovely damsel who sings ‘On the Beach at Long Branch.’ Although the last named is the poorest imitation of the lot, yet taken as a whole the sketch is very successfully performed.”

No mention of music.