Niblo’s Garden

No mention of music. “…Miss Lydia Thompson and Mr. Beckett are both convalescent, and it is expected that they will resume their respective places in the spectacular burlesque at an early day.”

“The most contumacious of the older cynics has declared that no idea of Paradise would be perfect to him unless he were permitted to witness the tortures of the damned writhing in Pandemonium below. The cynical seeker of theatrical comfort in the present day may realize this conceit, if he choose, by visiting Niblo’s Garden, where himself surrounded by ever element of coolness known to modern times—free ventilation, fans, puffs of curious and complicated design, Mr. Farnie’s pretensions to wit and those of Mr. Henderson’s burlesque company to genius—he may behold the struggles of vast numbers of fellow-beings condemned to unite hour after hour in the most vehement and exhausting physical labors that human ingenuity can devise. The partially extinct blondes fight for supremacy, hip and thigh, with the new performers of the Lauri Troupe, who, in turn, are making more extravagant leaps than ever toward the attainment of popular favor, in rivalry of their French friends, the Clodoche quartet. How enchanting, in these nights of thermic agony, to be able to lean back, in the spirit of the Chinese philosopher upon an airy orchestra stall, and rejoice that you have people to do all this for you. The period of salutatory suffering will not be much further prolonged. It closes with this month, and on the 1st of August, ‘Arrah-na-Pogue’ will be brought out with a cast which certainly shows good intentions on the part of managers.” Concludes with brief discussion cast arranged for Arrah-na-Pogue.

One of two announcements on the same page. “Miss Lydia Thompson is slowly recovering from her recent severe indisposition, and will probably make her reappearance at Niblo’s next Monday evening in the rollicking ‘Sinbad,’ which role for the past four weeks has been so ably filled by Miss Eliza Wethersby, one of the most vivacious and talented of blonde burlesquers that up to the present time have appeared in this city. Possessed of talent of no mean order, a good figure and a strong, sweet voice, Miss Wethersby would, with but very little study, prove as valuable an acquisition to the legitimate drama as she now is to burlesque.”