Tony Pastor’s Opera House

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 January 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Nov 1869, Evening
02 Nov 1869, Evening
03 Nov 1869, Evening
03 Nov 1869, 2:30 PM
04 Nov 1869, Evening
05 Nov 1869, Evening
06 Nov 1869, Evening
06 Nov 1869, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Participants:  Tony Pastor;  Frank Kerns (role: Paul Jones, the Pilot);  Walter [comedian] Bray (role: High Jack, the Healer)
3)
aka Gamblers of Mississippi; Scenes on the Mississippi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 November 1869, 12.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 November 1869, 254.

“ . . . Wallace and Wood, the two grotesque performers who have been performing at this establishment the past few weeks, are very clever and versatile. They appeared dressed in tight-fitting merino tights and shirts, similar to a clown’s dress, which is not very attractive, owing to the horrible ugly color worn by Wallace, and he being rather a thin man, it makes him anything but a pleasing figure. Their first act is a solo by one on a miniature trumpet, while the other plays the accompaniment on a miniature melodeon. They then give imitations on two violins of a bagpipe, after which one plays on a cornet and the miniature melodeon, while the other performs on the cornet, plays a castanet in his left hand, and with his left foot plays a triangle that is affixed to a framework on the stage. Their finish is the comic double-trick violin act.”