Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
16 February 2019
“Very little can be said for Mr. Baker’s music. That popular and effective director sometimes presses the oi polloi too closely in his selections. ‘Captain Jinks’ may be very well in a minstrel hall, but he and his brethren should be kept from too intimate association with Shakespeare. The glee, ‘Sigh no more, ladies,’ was sung very well, and commanded an immediate encore. Of music of the proper class there is an abundance, and some of it might, we think have been used in the entré acts. The tendency, however, of every orchestra is to run to popular ditties, or to Offenbach’s operas, and as the result is gratifying to the mass of the audience, we presume it is useless to complain. It must be added, too, that Mr. Baker knows how to impart rare spirit to his band.”