Venue(s):
Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau
Paul Juignet
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
23 September 2020
“CHOSES ET AUTRES” [Begins by stating that all the artists at the French theater are sick, but Grau and Juignet manage to keep going nevertheless.]
“Before leaving the stage, let’s note in passing the daily receipts of New York’s principal theaters. They are estimated as follows, on average, for the past month [January 1869]:
Tammany……………………………………..$4,000
Wood’s………………………………………....3,000
Niblo…………………………………………....2,500
Théâtre Francais………………………………..2,000
Wallack………………………………………...1,500
Booth…………………………………………...1,500
Brougham………………………………………...900
Broadway……………………………………….1,000
New York………………………………………...600
Bryant’s Minstrels, etc………………………….2,000
Circus & itinerant shows………………………..3,000
Concerts…………………………………………2,000
Total………………………………………… $25,000
These figures are without doubt exaggerated, but they give an almost exact proportion of the relative importance of different New York theaters.
The balls swarm to finish the festive [season]/ Let’s mention first the handsome ball of La Concorde and La Sincerité, last week, that attracted a solid and serious segment of our population, and which had a magnificent success. And the evening before yesterday, there took place a little masked ball, by invitation only, a small party, at the Victor residence on 13th Street. They danced and danced vigorously, and supped plentifully until the [early hours] of the morning….[rest is partially illegible and incomplete]