San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jan 1870, Evening
04 Jan 1870, Evening
05 Jan 1870, Evening
06 Jan 1870, Evening
07 Jan 1870, Evening
08 Jan 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold
2)
Hash
3)
Fat men's ball, The
Participants:  Billy Birch [minstrel];  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
4)
Cart-off giant

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 January 1870, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 January 1870, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 08 January 1870, 319.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 January 1870, 326, col. 3.

“The San Francisco Minstrels with their pantomime of ‘Hash’ and their burlesque quadrille on the ‘Fat Men’s Ball,’ besides the many other good things offered by them, keeps an audience in the liveliest mood and sends them to their homes with their faces wreathed in smiles.”