San Francisco Minstrels

They are doing an entirely new program except for the burlesque "Barber Brown."

“There are no important changes to record at the Minstrel Halls—a sufficient indication that the bills are good and popular…at the San Francisco Minstrels ‘Barber Brown’ runs as blithely as ever. Novelties are, of course, being constantly introduced in the preliminary part of the entertainments.”

“Our sable minstrels, to a cursory observer, may seem to be all of the same hue, but after becoming accustomed to their darkness, nice shades of difference appear, serving to mark their relative merits. The ‘San Francisco Minstrels’ have consequently, peculiar characteristics. They are inspired with the comic dash and impetuosity of California. Their fun, wit, singing, dancing, and burlesque performances are hurried along as if the players were afraid of being overtaken by an earthquake before they realize the end. The patience of their audience is never tired; rapid succession sustains throughout the spectacle of their entertainment. The company is numerous and talented, containing pleasing singers in Messrs. D. E. Wambold, M. Ainsley Scott, E. Templeton, and others—an admirable mimic, in Mr. C. Backus; excellent actors in Birch, W. Bernard, Backus, and W. H. Rice; and most emphatic and animated dancers in Newcomb, J. Cooper, and W. Fields. The programme is full of fun and variety—light and enjoyable music; songs sentimental, descriptive, and droll; jokes new and old, dances engergetic and fantastic; and burlesques of the broadest kind, such as ‘Impudence and Assurance,’ ‘Barber Brown or the Pacific Sloper,’ abounding in hits at the salient follies and characters of the day, seldom missing because their intention is obvious, and almost invariably leaving the mark of irresistible humor.”