Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Annual Benefit: 2nd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Sep 1869, Evening

Program Details

The New York Herald published a review for this performance on 09/22/69, though the event had not even yet been officially included in its advertisement cards. Two days later that paper announced that what had taken place was only a rehearsal, and that the actual performance would follow on 09/28/69. (See also event entry of 09/21/69: Rehearsal of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.) The orchestra was comprised of “eighty soloists.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Waverley Company;  Bryants' Minstrels;  San Francisco Minstrels;  Orchestra, unidentified;  Hooley's Minstrels (New York);  Tony Pastor’s Company;  Tammany Hall Company;  Theatre Comique Company

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 September 1869, 190.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 September 1869, 9.

Announces rehearsal will take place at 2:30pm on 09/21/69 at Tony Pastor’s Opera House.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 22 September 1869, 7.

“The ‘Order of Elks,’ a benevolent organization, comprising over 400 members of the minstrel profession, gave their annual matinée performance at the Academy o’ Music yesterday afternoon, upon which occasion the company from Bryant’s [sic] Minstrels, San Francisco Minstrels and Tony Pastor’s Opera House appeared in a round of their Ethiopian eccentricities.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 September 1869, 12.

“SECOND ANNUAL BENEFIT OF THE BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS. MONSTER MINSTREL AND MUSICAL JUBILEE.”

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 September 1869, 7.

“‘The Order of Elks’—the minstrel benevolent organization—had a rehearsal instead of a performance on Tuesday last. The performance takes place at the Academy of Music on Tuesday next.”

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 25 September 1869, 198.

“A gentleman from the ‘Interior’ has sent a note to ‘Our Jim,’ asking him whether the ‘Benevolent Order of Elks’ derive their name from the number of ‘horns’ taken by its members. Jim, in reply, says he thinks not, because they have only taken one horn since he joined ’em, and that one was Eph. Horn; but he think they get the name from the large quantity of ‘buck’ beer they consume. This, we fear, may be a bitter dose for the benevolent ones to swallow.”

7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 September 1869, 199.
8)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 September 1869, 7.
9)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 September 1869, 12.
10)
Announcement: New York Herald, 27 September 1869, 7.