San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 August 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Sep 1869, Evening
21 Sep 1869, Evening
22 Sep 1869, Evening
23 Sep 1869, Evening
24 Sep 1869, Evening
25 Sep 1869, Evening

Program Details

American debuts of Legget and Allen from the Great Alhambra, London. They appeared Thursday through Saturday.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Leggett and Allen [dancers];  Charley Backus;  Billy West;  John [Ethiopian comedian] Mulligan;  W. B. [minstrel] Lankeney;  Billy [Ethiopian comedian] Emmett;  E. J. [minstrel] Hartigan;  Frank Kent;  J. [minstrel] Juch;  W. D. [minstrel] Corrister;  W. [minstrel] Richards;  Ira [minstrel] Paine;  Bobby Newcomb;  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  George F. Clarendon;  David S. Wambold;  John F. Oberist;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 September 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 September 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 September 1869, 7.

“The San Francisco Minstrels are fairly overrun with friends and admirers. For the present week they offer, in addition to their customary [illeg.] of fun, nonsense and mirth provoking eccentricities, several new songs, new stars and new sketches.”

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 September 1869, 7.

“The San Francisco Minstrels have caught the ‘importation of talent’ contagion. To-morrow evening Messrs. Leggett and Allen, two burnt cork dyed delineators from over ‘the big pond,’ will make their first appearance in this country at the hall of the San Franciscans, in a new and original style of dancing said to be peculiar to themselves.”

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 25 September 1869, 198.

“The San Francisco Minstrels are doing a splendid business, their hall being filled each evening, and the entertainment presented received with shouts of laughter.”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 October 1869, 206.

Describes Legget and Allen’s act. No mention of music.