Olympic Theatre

Full cast list. Hernandez plays a “wonderful Guitar Solo” in the “Grand Tournament scene.”

“…Mrs. Oates…sings better than most burlesque actresses…Mr. Hernandez’s guitar performance is also worthy of notice.”

Brief praise for Mrs. Oates’s singing.

No mention of music.

“…Several novelties of a musical and dancing nature are brought into the principal scene, and received due appreciation, being excellent in their way.”

“…The tumbleronican, which Professor O’Reardon operates, is a concord of sweet sounds produced by a piano and a chime on tumblers, the musical professor playing on the piano with his left hand and on the glass chimes with his right.”

“…[Dickson] sang a song which deservedly gained an encore…[long criticism of Oates as an actress]…The music of the burlesque was only fairly rendered. We notice a very bad habit which is steadily gaining ground at this as well as at other theatres: that is, the determination on the part of certain habitues to encore every thing of a musical nature that occurs in the piece, be it good, indifferent or bad, and to gratify these young gentlemen, who seem to have not the slightest idea of harmony, the audience is oft compelled to writhe under the repetition of a performance which had better far been omitted at first. It is also trying to the artists as well, for this applause is at times mingled with hisses from the more sensible, and to any conscientious artist, a single sibillant [sic] expression would overweigh the applause of a hundred hands. In the ‘Cloth of Gold’ and ‘Tournament’ scenes, Mrs. Oates sang a medley song; Hernandez performed a solo on the guitar…”