San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 October 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Oct 1869, Evening
05 Oct 1869, Evening
06 Oct 1869, Evening
07 Oct 1869, Evening
08 Oct 1869, Evening
09 Oct 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Leggett and Allen [dancers];  Charles F. [minstrel] Shattuck;  John F. Oberist;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
2)
Street sweeper
Participants:  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 October 1869, 12.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 October 1869, 10.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 October 1869, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 October 1869, 215.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 October 1869, 222, 4th col.

“The two minstrel companies at present performing in this city are doing the best business of any place of amusement here. The San Francisco and Bryants’ have both been well filled during the past two weeks, and on many occasions there has not been standing room at either place. The two London importations, Leggett and Allen, with the San Francisco party, please their audiences, more on account of the novelty of seeing them in Polish costume and dancing on pedestals than for their artistic movements. They please and are encored each evening, and the dance they do for their encore pleases better than their first one. Johnny Queen did the act of the ‘Street Sweeper,’ in which he appears in the black statues. The olio was replete with good things, and all the funny fellows of the troupe appear in laughable acts. The first part was quite attractive the past week, for David Wambold, J. F. Oberist and C. K. Shattuck sang new songs.”